Portal:Current events/2015 July 22

July 22, 2015 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people in northern Afghanistan. (CNN)
Two explosions in the Nigerian city of Gombe killed at least 29 people. (Reuters)

Arts and Culture

The University of Oxford has radiocarbon dated fragments, of what apparently is the world's oldest Quran, to between 568 A.D. and 645 A.D. The animal skin parchment was found hidden inside the pages of another book in England's University of Birmingham library. (Daily Mail) (Deutsche Welle)

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

2015 Studénka train crash
- Three people die in a collision between a Pendolino train and a lorry that occurred near Studénka, north Moravia, in the Czech Republic. (Yahoo news) (ABC news) (ČTK)

Law and crime

Charleston church shooting
- Dylann Roof, the suspect in the murder of nine people in the American city of Charleston, South Carolina, is indicted on dozens of federal offenses including hate crimes. (The Guardian)
The former prime minister of Egypt, Ahmed Nazif, is sentenced to five years in prison after losing appeal against 3-year prison sentence for corruption. (Cairo Post)
Broken Arrow murders
- Perpetrators Robert and Michael Bever murder their family in preparation for their Mass shooting plot.^[1]

Science and technology

The finals of the robot football World Cup are held. A Chinese team defeats the Netherlands in the finals of the middle-weight non-humanoid league, while another lost in the final of the small humanoid class to a team from Japan. (DutchNews) (BBC)

Health and medicine

Scientists at the U.S. NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases report a major breakthrough toward finding a new universal flu vaccine by using non-infectious H-proteins instead of whole viruses.(NIAID)