John McCain John McCain wins the Republican Party primary election to become the nominee in the US Senate election in Arizona.
Samantha Cameron Samantha Cameron, wife of the British Prime Minister David Cameron, gives birth to the couple's fourth child, a girl.
U.S. Justice Department The United States Department of Justice states that it will appeal a decision by United States federal judge Royce C. Lamberth to block an executive order by President Barack Obama to expand embryonic stem cell research.
Rescue 33 miners trapped Rescue efforts start to free the men trapped following the 2010 Copiapó mining accident.
Agni Air Flight 101 Agni Air Flight 101, a small plane carrying fourteen people, crashes in Nepal's Makwanpur District with no survivors expected.
Oxfam Oxfam warns of a "double disaster" following flooding compounding a recent drought and food crisis in Niger.
Henan Airlines Flight 8387 Henan Airlines Flight 8387, carrying 91 people on board, overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Yichun City in Heilongjiang, northeastern China; at least 43 people are reported dead.
Cairn Energy Cairn Energy discovers gas off the coast of Greenland, amid protests from Greenpeace demanding it halt its oil operations.
India India rejects plans by mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in Orissa due to environmental concerns.
Lindsay Lohan American actor Lindsay Lohan is released from a rehabilitation centre 22 days into a three month program.
Lance-corporal A lance-corporal in the Australian Army is killed in fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province.
Rwanda Foreign human rights groups accuse Rwandan and Congolese rebels of gang-raping nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the village of Bunangiri, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Al-Shabaab Al-Shabaab militants storm the Hotel Muna, close to the Presidential palace Villa Somalia in Mogadishu, killing at least 33 people including several MPs.
Catalan Two Catalonian aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania by Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb return home.
Yemen 80,000 people flee the southern Yemeni city of Lawdar after clashes between Al-Qaeda linked forces and government troops killed several people.