July 7, 2008 (Monday)
- Austrian People's Party leader Wilhelm Molterer pulls his party out of the ruling grand coalition, forcing a snap general election. (BBC News)
- Hurricane Bertha becomes the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. (Reuters)
- A suicide car bomber strikes outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, with at least 41 people killed. (Reuters) (AFP via The Melbourne Age) (BBC News)
- MV Princess of the Stars disaster: Ship owner Sulpicio Lines ask a court to stop the Board of Marine Inquiry's investigation and sue the body for allegedly contributing to unfair negative publicity surrounding Sulpicio. (ABS-CBN News)[permanent dead link]
- The Church of England's governing body votes to allow female bishops. (BBC News)
- Unenriched uranium leaks into the Gaffière and Lauzon rivers from the Tricastin Nuclear Power Center in Bollène, France resulting in the plant being closed. (BBC News)