DIED
Michael Hastings, 33, author and journalist, in a one-car crash. His 2010 Rolling Stone article "The Runaway General" led to the firing of General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
DEFINED
Tweet, by the Oxford English Dictionary. The June update of the venerable and authoritative OED officially recognizes the word as both a noun (a post on Twitter) and a verb (the act of posting to the social-media site).
APPOINTED
By the Bank of England, Charlotte Hogg, as its chief operating officer. Hogg, the daughter of a former Tory minister, will be the highest-ranking woman in the bank's...