Governor The Governor of Alaska Sean Parnell says that he will not implement the United States Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act after a Florida judge ruled it was unconstitutional.
Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace confirms that the President of the United States Barack Obama will make a state visit to the United Kingdom in May.
Tunisia Tunisian authorities rename the central square in Tunis after Mohamed Bouazizi whose suicide sparked the 2010–2011 Tunisian revolution.
French media reports that former President of Tunisia Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia with a stroke.
United States Schools in the American state of Wisconsin close as teachers attend rallies against proposals to limit collective bargaining for state employees.
Anthony Graves Anthony Graves, an American man found innocent of the murders which left him on death row for 18 years, is denied restitution due to a technicality.
Egypt Former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly is arrested pending investigation of corruption allegations along with former Housing Minister Ahmed Maghrabi, former Tourism Minister Zuhair Garana and a former official from the National Democratic Party.
United States Police arrest nine people allegedly involved in a United States-Mexico arms ring, and seize 300 weapons.
United States authorities charge more than a hundred doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud.
UEFA Euro 2004 English football fan Garry Mann, jailed for his role in a riot during UEFA Euro 2004, is transferred from jail in Portugal in order to serve the remainder of his sentence in his home country.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The CBC releases information about an alleged attack originating from China against the computer networks of the Finance Department and Treasury Board in Canada, forcing the immediate shutdown of all internet access in both departments.
United States The United States imposes sanctions on Iran's Refah Bank for allegedly facilitating the purchase of weapons by Iran's Defense Ministry.
Iran Iran requests permission from the Government of Egypt for the Iranian navy to pass through the Suez Canal.
Arab Spring Assessment suggests the possibility that social networks are more informed than U.S. intelligence about protesters in the Middle East.
Riyad Mansour Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian United Nations observer, announces that the United Nations Security Council is to vote tomorrow on a resolution critical of Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Palestinian National Authority Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says that general elections in September would be canceled if Hamas refused to allow voting in the Gaza Strip.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill The inquiry into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is released finding that the accident was entirely preventable.
Dar es Salaam At least 32 people are killed in several hours of explosions due to an accident at a munitions dump in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania closing the city's airport, destroying homes, a school and sending debris flying across the city as thousands of people seek shelter in a stadium. The death toll is expected to rise.
Honda Honda recalls nearly 700,000 vehicles in the Fit, Freed, and City model range due to a defective spring.
Private equity The private equity owners of Australian book sellers Angus & Robertson, the New Zealand news agency chain Whitcoulls and the Australasian franchise of Borders goes into voluntary administration.
Andy Warhol A rare red and white 6ft by 6ft Andy Warhol self-portrait sells for £10.79 million at auction at Christie's in London.
Egyptian Army The Egyptian Army dispatches hundreds of troops to the northern Sinai peninsula to protect a gas pipeline to Israel.
Israel Israeli troops kill three Palestinian militants near Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were approaching the border.
Yemen Several people are injured in clashes between pro and anti-government protesters in the Yemeni capital Sana'a.
Abdelhamid Mehri Eighty-four-year-old Abdelhamid Mehri, former leader of Algeria's governing party, writes a letter to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika asking that he change his government in response to the unrest across the Arab world.
14 anti-government protesters are killed as Libyan protesters seeking to oust president Muammar Gaddafi defied a crackdown and took to the streets in four cities on what they called a "day of rage".
Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah, the Foreign Minister, defends the crackdown stating that it pulled the country back from the brink of the sectarian abyss.
Bahrain police launch an attack on protesters in the Pearl Roundabout in the capital Manama, using tear gas and batons to disperse the crowd.