NASA NASA's Kepler Mission announces the discovery of a planetary system of six planets circulating the star Kepler-11.
South Korea South Korea orders the culling of three million animals to control foot and mouth disease.
Pink and White Terraces Part of New Zealand's Pink and White Terraces, a natural wonder apparently destroyed in an eruption 125 years ago, has been rediscovered by scientists.
BBC BBC executive Craig Oliver is chosen to replace Andy Coulson as British Prime Minister David Cameron's Director of Communications.
Russian president The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, expands the Kremlin's human rights council and authorises it to investigate the cases of Sergei Magnitsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Prime minister of New Zealand Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, announces a general election for November 26, giving an unusually long notice for poll.
Wen Jiabao Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits rural Jinzhai County in Jiangxi province to celebrate Chinese New Year with local farmers.
Palestinian Authority The Palestinian Authority announces that it will hold local elections originally due to be held in June 2010.
Parliament The parliament of Kazakhstan approves a bill giving the President the power to declare a snap presidential election.
United States federal judge United States federal judge Carl J. Barbier rules that Deepwater Horizon oil spill compensation fund administrator Ken Feinberg should advise people that he is working for BP.
India The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation arrests former minister for communications A. Raja and other officials associated with the 2G spectrum scam.
Colleen LaRose Colleen LaRose, known as "Jihad Jane", pleads guilty to participating in a terrorist plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist whose work offended many Muslims.
Government of Sudan The Sudanese government, in its first official reaction after preliminary results were announced indicating a landslide vote in favor of Southern Sudan's independence, agrees to accept the results; Vice-President Ali Osman Taha says the government intends "to pursue a policy of good neighbourly relations with the south".
Five-star A fire destroys a five-star Sheraton hotel in the Heping District of Shenyang, Liaoning, China, then the tallest building in Northeastern China, after midnight fireworks celebrating the Chinese New Year set ablaze flammable thermal insulation outside the hotel walls. Firefighters were unable to put out the blaze as ladders could not reach the higher storeys of the building, but no casualties or injuries were reported.
Railways Fourteen job seekers traveling home on the rooftop of an overcrowded train, are killed when they hit a low overhead bridge in northern India.
People's Republic of China Over 60,000 people are evacuated in China's Yunnan Province following an earthquake.
Australian The Australian state of Queensland braces for Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi predicted to be one of the most powerful in the nation's history.
Car bomb At least two people are dead and ten injured following the explosion of a car bomb in a commercial area of the Pakistani town of Peshawar.
WikiLeaks WikiLeaks reveals that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation had launched an investigation of a previously unknown group of men believed to be involved in the September 11 attacks.
Army The army in Mauritania destroy a car packed with explosives outside the capital Nouakchott, killing three people suspected of being members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
2011 Yemeni protests 2011 Yemeni protests: President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh backtracks on his plan to rule Yemen for life and to then allow his son to inherit his rule during an emergency session of parliament ahead of tomorrow's "day of rage" against his three-decade rule.
United States Department of State spokesman P. J. Crowley is criticised after appealing for ""all sides"" in Egypt to "show restraint and avoid violence".
President of the United States Barack Obama makes his first comments on Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak announced he would step down before the next elections; Obama tells the people of Egypt "We hear your voice", and calls for an "orderly transition" of power that "must begin now".
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) compiles a list of members of the media who have come under attack in Egypt today.
Pro-Mubarak protestors attack CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and his crew. The attack is successfully filmed.
Al Arabiya journalist Ahmad Abdallah is reported missing but later found after being beaten by pro-Mubarak supporters.
Al Jazeera urges Egyptian satellite company Nilesat to resume broadcasting its signal or face legal action.
Mohamed ElBaradei, of the Egyptian opposition, raises concerns that clashes in Cairo could escalate into a "bloodbath".
Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary General and a former Egyptian foreign minister, says he would "seriously" consider whether to seek the Egyptian presidency.
The United Nations (Navi Pillay) believes as many as 300 people have been killed in Egypt over the last nine days.
Some supporters of the Mubarak regime ride horses and camels and attack anti-government protesters with whips.
Mubarak supporters, rumored to be directed by the Mubarak regime, protest in central Cairo, Alexandria and other cities, attacking anti-government protestors with stones, knives and Molotov cocktails.
Clashes occur in Cairo and Alexandria between supporters and opponents of President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak with one person dead and 700 injured.
The protestors increase their demands for the end of the Mubarak regime and are not impressed by Hosni Mubarak's promise to resign at the end of his current term.
Mohamed ElBaradei, an emerging leader of anti-regime protests, and other protesters say that Mubarak must leave Egypt by Friday at the latest to avoid further bloodshed and turmoil.
Egyptian protesters continue nationwide demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak for a ninth day.