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Video footage emerges of an Israeli soldier smashing a foreign activist in the face with his gun in an apparently unprovoked attack during a bicycle rally in the West Bank. The assault, which knocked the victim, believed to be Danish, to the ground draws international condemnation. (Al Jazeera)(Toronto Star)(Los Angeles Times)
The Danish ambassador to Israel Liselotte Plesner demands an explanation from Israel over the assault by a senior officer. (The Guardian)(Haaretz)
Business and economics
The first ever challenge to the U.S. nominee for World Bank president is unsuccessful; the selection of Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim draws criticism, such as the historical U.S. dominance of the post and the fact that Kim, a former director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS department, is not an economist. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
The U.S. military's top officer Martin Dempsey speaks of being "embarrassed" and tells a Pentagon news conference "we let the boss down" in relation to allegations that secret service agents habitually associated with prostitutes in Colombia. Pentagon spokesman George E. Little tells reporters that the number of military staff involved could be more than the five originally reported. (BBC)