Portal:Current events/2011 July 26

• Police in Norway begin naming the victims of the 2011 Norway attacks. (BBC)

• The Reserve Bank of India increases interest rates to 8% in an effort to contain inflation which is currently at 9.44%. (BBC)
• Britain's Trinity Mirror reviews its editorial guidelines in light of the News of the World phone hacking affair. (AP via Yahoo News)
• U.S. Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, in a letter to the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission, demands that they block the effort of telephone giant AT&T to buy rival T-Mobile USA. (Reuters)

• A Moroccan military transport plane crashes into a mountain in the south of the country killing 78 of 81 on board. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)

• Senior North Korean diplomat Kim Kye Gwan heads to the United States for discussions on reopening the six-party talks on his country's nuclear weapons program. (Yonhap News)

• Senegalese rapper and government critic Omar Toure is arrested. (BBC)
• Sri Lankan police hunt for 20 local television actresses alleged to be part of a prostitution ring. (Xinhua)
• A shootout at a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, leaves 17 dead. (Fox News)
• David Cecil, an unemployed truck driver, is charged with hacking into Platform Networks's network. (Kansas City Star)(CBS News)(The Australian)

• Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is re-elected Prime Minister of Vietnam. (Government Web Portal of Vietnam)
• David Wu resigns as a member of the United States House of Representatives following allegations of an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old. (New York Times)
• Luis Gutiérrez, an Illinois member of the United States House of Representatives, is arrested outside the White House in Washington, D.C., during protests calling for immigration reform. (Rollcall)

• A dog is discovered carrying the hendra virus in the Australian state of Queensland near the town of Beaudesert. It is the first time the virus has been detected in a species other than flying foxes, horses or humans. (AAP via News Limited)