Internationals

The monks of St. Paul Abbey, Lavanttal, Austria, elected Dr. Heinrich Ferenczy OSB, current abbot administrator, to become the 57th abbot.

The monks of Ascension Monastery, Idaho, have published a new Martyrology that favors monastic saints.

On 15 July, the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration of Clyde, Missouri, elected S. Sean Douglas OSB to become Prioress.

On 11 July, Benedictines and their friends honor Saint Benedict, Patriarch of Western Monasticism and Co-Patron of Europe.

On Friday, 11 July 2008, the monks of Schaeftlarn elected P. Petrus Hoehensteiger OSB, 45, to the office of abbot.

A curfew is reimposed in the restive Chinese city of Urumqi after worshippers defy an order to stay away from mosques.

GM emerges from bankruptcy protection after signing a deal allowing it to sell its best assets to a "new GM", reports say.

The head of Los Angeles police refuses to rule out murder in the investigation into the death of singer Michael Jackson.

A form of Ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns it could mutate and pose a new risk to humans.

Two Brazilian artists are living high up on the outside wall of a building in Rio de Janeiro.