U.S. President President of the United States Barack Obama signs a small business lending bill into law.
Venezuelan president The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela wins a majority of seats in the parliamentary election held yesterday but lost a two-thirds majority needed to pass major legislation unaided.
North Korea Delegates arrive in the North Korean capital Pyongyang ahead of the largest Korean Workers' Party conference in decades.
Brandon Joseph Rhode Brandon Joseph Rhode is executed at a prison in Jackson, Georgia in the southern United States.
Bosnian Serb The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić resumes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands.
People's Republic of China Chinese police investigate claims that a security firm colluded with officials to detain protesters in secret prisons.
Marbella 95 people, including two former mayors and planning chief of Marbella, appear in court in Malaga in one of Spain's biggest corruption trials.
Japan Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku calls for the People's Republic of China to compensate for Japanese patrol boats damaged in a confrontation with a Chinese fishing boat in the East China Sea.
US State Department The US state department expresses disappointment at Israel's decision not to extend its ban on settlement building in the West Bank.
Landslide A landslide in the town of Giraldo in Colombia's Antioquia Department buries 30 people with authorities believing there is little chance of them being rescued.
Earthquake A 6.1 magnitude earthquake southwest of the Iranian city of Shiraz kills at least one person and injures three.
Gulf of Aden At least thirteen people die in the Gulf of Aden after a small boat capsizes with a rescue effort by the USS Winston S. Churchill saving another 61 passengers.
Unilever Unilever plc, an Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant, has entered into an agreement to buy Alberto-Culver, a manufacturer of hair and skin care products, for $3.7 billion.
Gloria Stuart Gloria Stuart, the oldest-ever nominee for an Academy award, specifically the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the elder Rose in the 1997 film "Titanic", dies in Los Angeles, aged 100.
Palestinian Three Palestinians said to be members of the Islamic Jihad group are killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Afghanistan The Taliban claim that they are holding a British foreign aid worker and offer to exchange her for Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistan scientist recently jailed in the United States.
Three former Australian soldiers are charged with offences including manslaughter following an action in the Afghanistan War in which six civilians died.
Colombian President President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos describes the killing of Mono Jojoy as the "beginning of the end" for the Farc organization.
NATO Around 70 insurgents are killed when two NATO helicopters strike inside Pakistan in its northwest Khost tribal area bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan strongly condemned the attack, calling it a violation of its airspace.
Rwanda Rwanda withdraws a threat to remove its peacekeepers from Darfur after a United Nations report accused the Rwandan army of genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Drones launch A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan in Khushali, a village near Mir Ali, killing four people.