- disavowed the final statement made by the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, claiming that they adhere to a policy of supporting Israel 's right to exist within pre-1967 borders, and restating that the conflict in the Middle East is between Palestinians and Israelis, not all Jew s.
- defeats Andre Agassi in four sets to win his record 14th major.
- , George W. Bush asserts that Iraq has defied various U.N. resolutions and is "a threat to the authority of the United Nations and a threat to peace". He says that the US will work with the Security Council to draft the necessary resolutions for military action.
- meets with the U.N. Security Council to push for stronger resolutions against Iraq . In a surprise reversal, Iraq tells the UN it will allow weapons inspectors "immediately and without condition."
- attack on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) has been announced in a paper by Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk entitled "Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers with Overdefined Systems of Equations". This appears to show a surprising potential theoretical weakness in the AES Algorithm .
- After three days of negotiations in Sattahip , Thailand , the Tamil Tigers agreed to drop their demand for independence from Sri Lanka , and accepted autonomy in the north and northwest of the country.
- Archaeologists use a remote-controlled robot to access a hitherto sealed chamber within the Great Pyramid Of Giza : the robot drilled a hole in a long-sealed door and poked a fiber-optic camera through. Unfortunately, all that was revealed was another closed door.
- Nazi Collaborator Maurice Papon is released from jail due to health reasons.
- Bob Hayes dies.
- An attempted Coup by disaffected former soldiers of Côte D'Ivoire was put down, with the death of the alleged coup leader, General Robert Guéï , a former military dictator of the country. Guéï was killed when his car refused to stop at a roadblock in downtown Abidjan . Rebels continue in control of the cities of Bouaké and Korhogo .
- kills 5 and wounds more than 60 on a bus next to Tel Aviv 's Great Synagogue , Israeli troops, tanks, and bulldozers destroy buildings in Yasser Arafat 's Ramallah headquarters.
- to pass a resolution giving Bush authority to use "all means he determines to be appropriate, including force" to oust Saddam Hussein and disarm Iraq.
- breaks off from the Caucasus Mountains and buries Karmadon, Russia under up to 500 feet of ice and debris, killing 125, including the young Russian movie star Sergei Bodrov Jr.
- presented detailed war plans to President Bush in early September.
- Belgium is the second European country (after the Netherlands ) to legalise Euthanasia .
- falling 3 % to a 6-year low of 1,184.94. The yield of the U.S. Treasury 's 10-year bond sank to a 40-year low of 3.70 %, with the 2-year bond yield falling to a record low of 1.89 %. Meanwhile, concern of the U.S. Plan To Invade Iraq pushed oil prices to over $30 a barrel, not seen since February 2001.
- state of Palawan has sent Philippine soldiers to take possession of the uninhabited oil-rich Spratly Islands, which are claimed by the Philippines, Brunei , the People's Republic Of China , Malaysia , the Republic Of China ( Taiwan ), and Vietnam .
- after 32 people were killed in an attack on a Hindu temple. According to the government, the move is aimed at preventing further Communal Violence in the aftermath of the attack.
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