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- Mission STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle fleet until problems with foam insulation on the external tank are resolved.
- Unprecedented monsoon rains cause massive floods in Mumbai, India leaving more than 200 people dead.
- Attempted suicide bombing suspect Yasin Hassan Omar is arrested in connection with the 21 July 2005 London bombings in London.
- Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France and confirms his retirement from bicycle racing.
- A series of bomb attacks kills at least 88 people in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.