Angela Merkel Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, announces that Germany will shut down all of its pre-1980 nuclear reactors following the problems in Japan.
British Medical Association At a British Medical Association conference, delegates call for the coalition government to halt its plans to overhaul the National Health Service in England. However, they stop short of complete opposition to the proposals.
United States United States nurse William Francis Melchert-Dinkel is convicted of aiding the suicides of an English man and Canadian woman.
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration seizes the state of Georgia's supply of a lethal injection drug due to questions over how it was imported to the US.
German German national Christian Gerhartsreiter is charged with the murder of a San Marino, California man in the 1980s.
Mafia Former US mafia leader Joey Merlino of the Scarfo crime family is released from prison in Indiana and is sent to a halfway house in Florida.
Metropolitan Police The Metropolitan Police in London, England launch an investigation into the death of reggae musician Smiley Culture in a police raid in Surrey.
Egypt Egypt dissolves State Security Investigations Service, its former internal security and spying agency.
World War I The passing of the United States generation that fought in World War I is marked by the funeral of "'Frank Buckles"', who died on 27 February 2011, aged 110, and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
Of March 11, 2011 A magnitude 6.2 aftershock hits Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture southwest of Tokyo.
Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange decline by 12 per cent with the TOPIX index recording its largest fall since 1987.
The National Police Agency advises that the official death toll from the quake is 2,414 dead with 3,118 injured.
Prime Minister Kan warns people living within a 30 kilometre radius of the plant to stay indoors and a 30-km no-fly zone is established around the plant.
A senior adviser to the Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan says that a fire has broken out in a fourth reactor at the Fukushima I power plant but it is later extinguished, with the radiation reading at 0831 local time (2331 GMT) climbing to 8,217 microsieverts an hour.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano reports that as of 10.22 a.m. local time, radiation levels of 30 millisieverts per hour were measured between the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, while at the No. 3 reactor 400 millisieverts per hour were detected, a harmful level to humans.
Fukushima I nuclear accidents There is a third explosion in four days at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami causing damage to its steel containment structure, the withdrawal of emergency workers and expected increases in radiation.
Of March 11, 2011 Dozens of workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex (also called "Fukushima I") have stayed behind to end the radiation leaks, known as the "Fukushima 50", risking fatal radiation exposure.
Nasdaq OMX Group Nasdaq OMX Group is preparing a bid for NYSE Euronext. Such a bid would, at the least, complicate the planned merger between NYSE and Deutsche Boerse. Reuters reported the planned counter-bid citing "a source familiar with the situation."
Israeli Navy The Israeli Navy intercepts the cargo ship "Victoria" which was carrying a long list of advanced weapons that were smuggled from Iran and were allegedly bound for the militant organizations operating in the Gaza Strip.
Islam A small bomb explodes in the offices of a moderate Islamic group in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, injuring four people.
Violence committed in the aftermath 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis: Gunmen shoot four people dead at a roadblock run by supporters of disputed Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo.
Arab Spring Yemeni tribesmen hold an anti-government protest after an attack on an oil pipeline in the east of the country.
Hundreds of people stage a rare protest in the Syrian capital Damascus calling for greater freedoms and the release of political prisoners.
The Libyan opposition arrests four men as suspects in the murder of an Al Jazeera journalist and claim that Muammar Gaddafi's regime is sending undercover squads to assassinate people.
G8 leaders fail to agree on military intervention in Libya following the 2011 Libyan civil war, and pass the issue onto the United Nations Security Council.
The King of Bahrain Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa declares a three month state of emergency following the 2011 Bahraini protests.