Okinawa Prefecture Voters in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, go to the polls for the gubernatorial election with anti-US base governor Hirokazu Nakaima reelected.
Egypt Voters in Egypt go to the polls for parliamentary elections amid reports of the detention of hundreds of opposition supporters, scattered violence, vote buying and the ejection of independent monitors as the government cracks down on the opposition; 21 people are wounded in skirmishes connected with the poll.
Ivory Coast Voters in the Ivory Coast go to the polls for the second round of the Ivorian presidential election with violent clashes having occurred between rival supporters.
Haiti's presidential election 12 of the 18 candidates call for the election to be cancelled, alleging widespread voter fraud.
Haiti Voters in Haiti go to the polls for a general election, amid confusion and disorganization resulting from the cholera epidemic and the aftermath of the January earthquake
Brazilian More than 2,000 Brazilian police and military personnel enter the Alemão slum of Rio de Janeiro in search of drug traffickers, in efforts to boost security well ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games.
Sudan Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is to boycott an African Union-European Union meeting in the Libyan capital Tripoli to "avoid embarrassment to Libya".
Uganda Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni becomes the first foreign leader to visit the Somali capital Mogadishu in 20 years.
Ireland experiences heavy snow which causes disruptions to its transport system and its finance minister.
Russia At least 8 people are killed when a Russian Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane bound for Khartoum, Sudan, crashes minutes after take off in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan.
Irish financial crisis The EU approves an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland, which includes €10 billion for bank recapitalisation, €25 billion for banking contingencies and €50 billion for financing the budget.
European Union finance ministers meet to work out the details for rescuing the Irish economy, and to outline an agreement for a fund to rescue other economically troubled euro-zone nations.
Central China Central China's Hunan Province begins building the country's third National Supercomputing Center (NSCC), where the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, will be installed.
Leslie Nielsen Leslie Nielsen, famed for his roles in "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" series, dies at the age of 84 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Israeli soldiers shoot and wound four Palestinians who were digging for gravel in northern Gaza Strip.
Korean Peninsula North Korea deploys surface-to-air missiles near its disputed border in the Yellow Sea.
U.S. naval ships The United States Navy and South Korean Navy hold exercises in the waters west of the Korean Peninsula despite warnings from North Korea.
A newly released cable The White House issues a statement of condemnation "in the strongest terms [of] the unauthorised disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information".
Wikileaks releases 250,000 messages sent by U.S. embassies, including messages discussing corruption, criticisms of the UK, Guantánamo Bay prison camp, a Chinese cyber attack, the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi, and a possible unified Korea.
State Department The United States Department of State says the planned release of a new batch of classified documents would place its military operations at risk, and warns of possible legal action if they were found to have been provided in violation of U.S. law.
WikiLeaks The WikiLeaks website is attacked by a computer-hacking operation and undergoes "a mass distributed denial of service attack" as it prepares to release more secret U.S. documents. Julian Assange says U.S. authorities are afraid of being held accountable for their actions.