Mirlande Manigat Haiti's presidential run-off candidates are named. They are former First Lady Mirlande Manigat and popular singer Michel Martelly.
Burmese Lawmakers in Burma elect two out of three Vice Presidents, one of whom will become the President.
Suicide A former policeman questions the suicide verdict recorded in the 1979 death of French cabinet minister Robert Boulin, claiming he could not have drowned. His family believe he was murdered.
Silvio Berlusconi Italy's parliament rejects a search request by prosecutors investigating Silvio Berlusconi for having sexual intercourse with an under-age prostitute.
Fireworks Two people are killed and 223 injured in Beijing as a result of fireworks set off on the first day of the Chinese New Year.
Cyclone Yasi Cyclone Yasi hits North Queensland in Australia with the worst affected towns including Mission Beach, Tully, Cardwell and Innisfail.
United Nations The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation announces that world food prices have risen to a record high.
Awal Gul Awal Gul, an Afghan accused of being a Taliban base commander, who has been imprisoned without charge since 2002, dies while exercising at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
Thailand Gunmen open fire in Thailand's majority Muslim Pattani Province killing five people and injuring three people.
Syrian uprising 2011 Syrian protests: Social media mobilises the people of Syria for rallies demanding freedom, human rights and the end to emergency law, scheduled for Friday and Saturday in front of the parliament in Damascus and at Syrian embassies internationally.
2010-2011 Algerian protests 2010–2011 Algerian protests: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika vows to lift the country's state of emergency, in force since 1992, in the "very near future".
2011 Yemeni protests 2011 Yemeni protests: Thousands of pro- and anti-government supporters demonstrate in Yemen over the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a planned "day of rage".
United States Senate The United States Senate passes a motion supporting democracy in Egypt and calling on President Hosni Mubarak to begin transferring power.
Protesters An ABC News crew are carjacked and threatened with decapitations by pro-Mubarak supporters.
Hosni Mubarak breaks his silence to grant an interview to Christiane Amanpour of America's ABC News inside his palace.
Four members of the April 6 Youth Movement, an opposition group known for organising events on Facebook, are arrested by Egyptian authorities.
Video footage emerges on YouTube of a police van being driven at high speed into peacefully marching anti-regime protesters.
Egypt's attorney-general bans several former ministers and Ahmed Ezz, a prominent member of the ruling party who resigned last week, from travelling abroad; their bank accounts are also frozen.
Mobile phone firm Vodafone says the Egyptian authorities have hijacked its network to send unattributed text messages supporting the government.
Journalists from Al Jazeera and "The Washington Post" are arrested by Egyptian authorities; Swedish television loses contact with correspondent Bert Sundström.
Nile TV (state television) journalist Shahira Amin, deputy head of the station, resigns after being threatened and intimidated; she tells Al Jazeera "I can't be part of the propaganda machine and I refuse to be a hypocrite", adding that she feels "liberated".
Egyptian state television forments the unrest by reporting that "Israeli spies" have infiltrated Cairo, leading to an increase in antisemitic sentiment among the pro-Mubarak forces attacking people and journalists on the streets.
Journalists from Al Jazeera and the BBC are among those targeted in fresh attacks from Mubarak regime "thugs". The UK's Channel 4 News reports that Mubarak's "secret police" are threatening journalists to keep off the streets of Cairo.
Egyptian prime minister Ahmad Shafiq says "sorry" for all the violence that has occurred in Tahrir Square and promises there will be no more.
A tense standoff between supporters and opponents of President Hosni Mubarak continues in Cairo, with at least three people killed and 1,500 injured in fighting on Wednesday.
Protesters detain 120 people with IDs linking them to the police or ruling party; most were attacking protesters at the time.