- Shooting at Jehovah's Witnesses church, 7 dead in Hamburg, Germany. Eight seriously injured. The perpetrator of the massacre could be among the victims.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised a front-line artillery drill stimulating an attack on an unspecified South Korean art field as he called for his troops to sharpen their combat readiness in the face of his rivals' frantic war preparation moves, state media said. The North Korean report came a day after South Korea's military detected the North firing at least one short-range ballistic missile toward the sea from a site near the western coastal city of Nampo and raised the possibility that more missiles may have been launched from the area simultaneously.
- Members of the House and Senate were informed Wednesday that hackers may have gained access to their sensitive personal data in breach of a Washington, D.C. health insurance marketplace. Employees of the lawmakers and their families were also affected.
