Germany Voters in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt go to the polls for an election with the results indicating that the Christian Democratic Union is likely to remain in power.
Mahamadou Issoufou Opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou is elected President of Niger following over a year of transitionary rule under a military junta since a coup overthrew Mamadou Tandja. The runner-up in the election, former Prime Minister Seyni Oumarou, accepts the results.
President of Yemen The President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh fires the government as the protests continue.
Egypt More than 80 per cent of votes in the Egyptian constitutional referendum support liberal reforms.
Haitian general election, 2010–2011 Several polling sites fail to open on time and are reported to lack voting materials.
Sian O'Callaghan Police are growing concerned for the safety of Sian O'Callaghan, a 22-year-old woman who went missing while walking home from a nightclub in the English city of Swindon in the early hours of Saturday 19 March.
US President U.S. president Barack Obama visits a favela and delivers a speech in Rio de Janeiro as part of his five-day Latin American journey.
Ukraine After a gag order is lifted and Sunday publication is permitted, Israel's security service admits it has arrested Gazan engineer Dirar Abu Sisi who disappeared in Ukraine almost two weeks ago and whose wife thought he had been abducted by Mossad.
Oil slick A possible oil slick appears and spreads near the Mississippi Delta off the coast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, suspected to be an oil spill from the Matterhorn Seastar oil rig near the Deepwater Horizon oil spill location or silt contamination from a nearby dredging operation.
Of March 11, 2011 The death and missing toll from the earthquake and resulting tsunami approaches 21,000.
The death toll from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami will top 15,000 people in Miyagi Prefecture according to the local police chief.
The Japanese Ministry of Health advises people living in Iitate near the plant not to drink tap water due to elevated levels of radioactive iodine.
AT&T AT&T and Deutsche Telekom reach an agreement for AT&T to purchase T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and stock.
BBC The BBC World Service is expected to sign an agreement with the United States State Department to enable it to combat censorship in Iran and the People's Republic of China.
Wyclef Jean Musician Wyclef Jean is shot in the hand near Port-au-Prince. Mr Jean supports Michel Martelly in the unfolding Haitian election.
American A protest against the alleged "appalling" treatment by the United States of Bradley Manning occurs in London, with supporters from Wales, where Manning attended school, attending.
Central government 12 people are killed in clashes between Transitional Federal Government troops and al-Shabaab rebels in southern Somalia.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israel shuts down every crossing with the Gaza Strip, citing "security reasons", ahead of the Purim Jewish holiday.
The bodies of two 17-year-old Palestinians, shot dead by the Israeli military near the Gaza-Israel border yesterday, are retrieved; the military says the army opened fire on two men who were spotted moving suspiciously toward a frontier "no-go" zone, after fierce cross-border exchanges in which militants fired dozens of shells into Israel.
Palestinian militants fire a Grad-type rocket from Gaza into southern Ashkelon, Israel; two residents are taken to a clinic for medical treatment.
Arab Spring Thousands of people rally across the country demanding more civil rights and an end to corruption.
Saudi forces arrest and take away around 15 people as they gather outside the interior ministry building to request details of the whereabouts of their friends or family members who have been imprisoned without trial. Such expressions of opinion are outlawed in Saudi Arabia.
Security forces in Saudi Arabia break up a protest outside the interior ministry in the capital Riyadh demanding the release of political prisoners.
The country's most powerful tribal confederation Hashed requests that Saleh resign. Hashed includes Saleh's own tribe.
The Yemeni human rights minister, Huda al-Baan, resigns in protest after a sniper attack on anti-government demonstrators.
Opposition groups in Bahrain call for prisoners to be released amid the country's two-month-long pro-democracy demonstrations.
The Syrian government announces its intention to release children it locked up for their pro-democracy actions.
Thousands of people demonstrate for a third consecutive day in Daraa, Syria, with crowds setting fire to the headquarters of the ruling Baath Party while one protester is killed by security forces.
NATO's top decision-making body approves a plan to implement a United Nations arms embargo but fail to agree on plans to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.
Germany's foreign minister Guido Westerwelle defends his country's refusal to participate in the invasion of Libya, speaking of "the risks of a lengthy mission".
Libyan state television claims that 48 people have been killed and 150 injured in Operation Odyssey Dawn.
A Libyan army spokesman says Libyan armed forces have been issued a command to observe an immediate ceasefire following air bombardment from American, French and British forces aiming to implement a UN resolution authorising the use of force to protect Libyan civilians from government troops.
Amr Moussa of the Arab League expresses concerns about Gaddafi retaliation after supporting the imposition of a no-fly zone.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani says Qatar will join the anti-Gaddafi forces, making it the first Arab country to commit military forces.