Internationals

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.

Pope Benedict XVI, in the company of a select ecumenical delegation, opened the Year of Saint Paul with solemn vespers on 28 June at the Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls.

Sudan again warns it cannot be held responsible for the safety of UN troops in Darfur if its leader is prosecuted for war crimes.

A deadline expires for Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic to appeal against extradition to The Hague on genocide charges.

Three suspected Hamas militants and a young girl die in an explosion near a car on Gaza City's beachfront, reports say.

President Bush signs an order expanding US sanctions on Robert Mugabe's "illegitimate" government in Zimbabwe.

Leaders from both sides of the divided island of Cyprus agree to launch reunification talks in early September, the UN says.