Iran Iran takes two opposition leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi and their wives into protection supposedly for their own protection.
Christy Clark Christy Clark becomes the second woman to be Premier of British Columbia after winning a Liberal Party of British Columbia ballot.
2011 Wisconsin budget protests Nearly 70,000 people attend a rally in the U.S. city of Madison, Wisconsin over plans by the Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker to remove collective bargaining rights from most state employees.
King of Bahrain The King of Bahrain Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa reshuffles his Cabinet in response the 2011 Bahraini protests.
Recently claimed back Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny tops the poll in the Mayo constituency and claims that the results are a "massive endorsement" of his party.
John Gormley, leader of the ruling coalition's Green Party and former Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, is eliminated in the Dublin South–East constituency.
Outgoing Tánaiste Mary Coughlan becomes the biggest loser of the Fianna Fáil meltdown, as her seat in the Donegal South–West constituency goes to Independent Thomas Pringle.
As the ruling Fianna Fáil party faces national wipeout, outgoing Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan, Jnr is saved by his own personality. He takes the final seat in the Dublin West constituency, the only Fianna Fáil candidate elected from 47 seats across the capital, with his brother Conor Lenihan and aunt Mary O'Rourke losing out in their bids for re-election elsewhere.
The first seat of the general election goes to Labour Party finance spokeswoman Joan Burton, who tops the poll in the Dublin West constituency. Leo Varadkar of Fine Gael and Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party take the second and third seats respectively in this four-seat constituency.
The votes are counted, with exit polls predicting Fine Gael and the Labour Party to do well while the ruling Fianna Fáil is expected to do poorly.
Mexico A Mexican judge authorises 40 days of detention for an alleged member of the Zetas drug cartel suspected in the killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
Brazil A Brazilian judge blocks construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Amazon Basin after it fails to meet environmental requirements.
2011 Iraqi protests Hundreds of Iraqi journalists, artists, and intellectuals are arrested the day following the country's "Day of Rage" protest, which resulted in at least twenty-nine deaths throughout the country.
2011 Canterbury earthquake Aftershocks force the evacuation of residents in Mount Pleasant, an outer suburb of Christchurch.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key calls for two minutes of silence on Tuesday March 1 at 12:51 pm, exactly one week after the earthquake.
The death toll from the earthquake in New Zealand rises to 144 and there is great concern about 200 more people missing.
Croatia Tens of thousands of protesters meet in the Croatian capital Zagreb's Ban Jelačić Square to express their support for indicted Croatian War of Independence veterans and ask Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor's government to resign.
Civil war Reuters reports that Libyan Interim Government led by the former justice minister Mustafa Abdul Jalil has been formed in Benghazi.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi tells Al-Arabiya television that the unrest in Libya opens up all options including civil war.