Ali Abdullah Saleh President Ali Abdullah Saleh offers to form a unity government with the opposition.
Egypt Egypt's general prosecutor imposes a travel ban on former President Hosni Mubarak and his family.
Tanzania The President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, accuses the opposition of provoking violence in the country in an attempt to remove the government.
Venezuela Venezuelan union leader Ruben Gonzalez is sentenced to seven years in jail in connection with a strike at the state iron mining company.
Danny Fitzsimons British security guard Danny Fitzsimons is jailed for 20 years by an Iraqi court after being convicted of murdering two colleagues.
British Airways British Airways IT expert Rajib Karim is convicted on charges related to plotting to blow up a plane.
Warwickshire Fire Service In the United Kingdom, three senior fire officers from the Warwickshire Fire Service are to face manslaughter by gross negligence charges over the deaths of four firefighters in a warehouse blaze in 2007.
Wing Chau Wing Chau, a money manager, files a lawsuit against Michael Lewis, the author of The Big Short, a popular book about the financial crisis of 2007-08. Chau alleges the book makes "false and defamtory statements" in order to use Chau as a foil for his protagonist, Steve Eisman.
Argentina Former military leaders in Argentina go on trial on charges that they masterminded a plan to steal the children of dissidents.
Rosatom Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear energy corporation, explains that the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant has been delayed in opening due to damage to the nuclear reactor's cooling pumps.
United Nations United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Belarus has "seriously violated" the arms embargo against the Ivory Coast, after a delivery of attack helicopters and material to the country.
New Zealand New Zealand police evacuate 60 properties in Christchurch suburbs after cracks from the 2011 Canterbury earthquake appear in cliffs.
Bandeira do Sul At least 16 people in Bandeira do Sul are killed after a high-voltage electric powerline crashed onto a float participating in a parade ahead of Brazil's carnival celebrations.
United States government The United States Government grants its first deepwater drilling license since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to Noble Energy.
United Kingdom The United Kingdom's largest bank HSBC doubles its profits to $19bn (£11.8bn) in 2010.
Crude oil Crude oil prices rise to their highest levels in two years as stock market indexes fall in Europe and the United States due to continued uncertainty in the Middle East.
Hollywood Hollywood actress and former sex symbol Jane Russell dies at age 89 of respiratory failure in Santa Maria, California.
Television A year-long trial also begins allowing commercial television channels to show up to 12 minutes of adverts per hour during films and dramas, bringing them into line with soap operas where this is already permitted.
The ban on product placement in television programmes is lifted, allowing advertisers to pay for their goods to be seen on British TV. The first product to be displayed in this regard is a Nescafe coffee machine, which appeared on "This Morning".
Frank Buckles Frank Buckles, the last surviving veteran of World War I in the United States, passes away in Charles Town, West Virginia, aged 110.
Ethiopia Ethiopia and Kenya may attack the al-Shabaab Islamist militant group in Somalia, following its threat to target Kenya.
Demonstrations calling for economic and political change continue for a third day, amid reports of looting.
Opposition forces rescue seven rebels 'buried alive' under concrete in a government compound in Benghazi, while close to 100,000 migrant workers flee Libya.
The Justice and Equality Movement in Darfur, western Sudan, asks the United Nations to rescue its leader in Libya, after accusations he was supporting mercenary activities in the country.
Muammar Gaddafi tells the BBC that all of his people love him and refuses to acknowledge that there are protests in Tripoli.
David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announces that he is working on a no-fly zone over Libya.
Al Jazeera reports that many African migrant workers in Libya have been victims of violence due to suspicions that they are mercenaries for Muammar Gaddafi's regime.