Monarch butterfly Monarch butterfly colonies in Mexico more than double in size after bad storms reduced their numbers a year ago.
U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives votes to extend the Patriot Act for another nine months.
10 Downing Street 10 Downing Street receives a new cat to boost the battle against mice seen on television scuttling past British prime minister David Cameron.
United States President The President of the United States Barack Obama puts forward a budget for 2012 proposing heavy spending cuts but still predicting substantial budget deficits.
Mourad Medelci Mourad Medelci, the foreign minister of Algeria, announces that the 19-year-old state of emergency will end "within days".
Palestinian Authority The Cabinet of the Palestinian Authority resigns today with the Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to choose a new ministry.
Israel The Israeli Knesset passes the "Bishara Bill", a law allowing the House Committee to cut off the pensions of Knesset members evading investigation or trial, by a vote of 36 to 11.
Pakistani Punjab governor Mumtaz Qadri is charged with murdering the Governor of Punjab Salmaan Taseer in a Pakistan court.
Bradley Manning Supporters of 23-year-old Bradley Manning, including a member of the legal advocacy team, criticise the White House for its "thuggish behaviour" and "torture" in trying to break the soldier by pressuring him to implicate Julian Assange in the alleged theft of 250,000 documents the U.S. government wished to keep secret.
Democratic Republic of the Congo 11 members of a family are found dead in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo after being kidnapped by Ugandan Islamist rebels.
United Nations Security Council The United Nations Security Council calls for a permanent ceasefire on the Thailand-Cambodia border near the Preah Vihear Temple.
Fine Gael Ireland's Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny travels to Germany to brief Angela Merkel on matters of economic concern.
Federal Government of Australia The Federal Government of Australia is helping the United States investigate Australians involved with the WikiLeaks website according to Julian Assange, who requests that Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Attorney-General Robert McClelland reveal every detail of assistance to foreign governments.
Die in a plane crash Fourteen people die in a plane crash in Honduras including a deputy minister in the Government of Honduras Rodolfo Robelo and former finance minister Carlos Chahin.
Eurozone Eurozone finance ministers agree to set up a permanent bail-out fund of €500 billion - the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). This replaces the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
Lago Agrio A court in the city of Lago Agrio, on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorean people, orders United States oil company Chevron to pay more than $8 billion in environmental damages for dumping wastewater in the Amazon River twenty years ago.
People's Republic of China China records a trade surplus of $6.5 billion for January, less than expected.
Central Bank of Egypt The Central Bank of Egypt closes banks as a result of the 2011 Egyptian protests.
British Army A British Army soldier from 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment is killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.
2011 Egyptian revolution New protests erupt in Egypt demanding a civilian leadership, an end to the emergency law and better pay.
2011 Bahraini protests Al-Wefaq MPs step down in protest at violence against pro-democracy demonstrators.
Julian Assange Julian Assange's mother criticises leading figures in the U.S. government who called for her son's assassination on television, and expresses concerns that her son is being targeted by an American fatwā similar to the one brought against the writer Salman Rushdie in 1989.