Template:In the news
- Hurricane Rita, a category 5 storm, threatens the U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana, with landfall most likely near Galveston and Houston. Re-entry to New Orleans has been halted as potential rainfall threatens weakened levees.
- North Korea agrees to abandon nuclear weapons and return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but also demands a new nuclear power plant.
- Prominent Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies in Vienna, Austria.
- German federal election: Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats separately contend to negotiate a governing coalition.