North Korea North Korea announces that its Supreme People's Assembly will meet on April 7 in a possible change of leadership.
Haiti Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand-Aristide returns to Haiti, two days before a general election.
Zimbabwe Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says the country is descending into a "police state" and urges regional intervention, at a rally banned by police.
British Airways Former British Airways software engineer Rajib Karim, of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom is jailed for 30 years for plotting to blow up a plane.
Government The Government of Australia sends additional Australian Federal Police officers to Christmas Island following a series of riots at the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre.
Chinese China releases seven Tibetan monks detained after one monk set himself on fire in protest at Chinese rule.
Hydro One A Hydro One electrical transformer undergoing repairs in the Richview neighbourhood of Toronto catches on fire and is sustained by burning mineral oil near Pearson International Airport, causing a local power outage and forcing the evacuation of an apartment complex and the temporary closure of part of Highway 401.
Of March 11, 2011 The total number of deaths and missing persons from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami passes 16,600 with 6,405 confirmed dead.
Japan attempts to restore electric power to two crippled reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant to combat ongoing problems.
Memorial service A memorial service is held in Christchurch, New Zealand, for the victims of the 2011 Canterbury earthquake.
G7 The G7 sells the Japanese yen in order to reduce its value in the first joint operation on currency markets since 2000.
Sankei Shimbun The "Sankei Shimbun" newspaper reports that the Government of Japan plans to issue more than 10 trillion yen in emergency government bonds to help pay for the recovery effort from the 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami.
Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement Clashes between the Sudan People's Liberation Army-Movement and rebel forces led by George Athor kill 70 people in South Sudan.
Violence committed in the aftermath The United Nations says the shelling of a market by security forces that killed 25 people may constitute a crime against humanity.
Disputed Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo calls on civilians to join in the fighting to "neutralise" supporters of Alassane Ouattara.
Arab Spring Libya then immediately violates its own ceasefire, shelling Misrata and killing 25 civilians.
The Libyan government announces a ceasefire, amid foreign military preparations after a no-fly zone was imposed yesterday.
Police use guns to kill between at least two and four people for protesting against the corruption of the Bashar al-Assad regime and lack of freedom in the southern city of Daraa.
Plain-clothes police break up a demonstration of at least 200 people in the Syrian capital Damascus after Friday prayers
The headquarters of the National Democratic Action Society (Waad), a secular Bahraini opposition political party, is attacked and burned down. The party's leader, Ibrahim Sharif, is arrested.
The Pearl Monument, located in the Pearl Roundabout, which had become a focal point of the Bahraini protests, is torn down by the government of Bahrain.
Hundreds of people in Jordan take to the streets for the eleventh consecutive week, calling for reforms.
At least 41 people are killed in Yemen as security forces open fire on anti-government demonstrators.
Pakistan Tribal leaders in Pakistan issue a statement vowing action against the United States after yesterday's botched U.S. drone attack which killed more than 40 civilians, mainly elders and police at an open-air meeting, the deadliest such attack by the United States on Pakistan since 2006.