Michigan Governor The Governor of the US state of Michigan Rick Snyder signs legislation lowering the period that jobless workers can claim state unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 20 weeks.
Barry O'Farrell Barry O'Farrell is sworn as the Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales following Saturday's state election.
Southern Vietnam A court in southern Vietnam sentences a zoo owner to three years imprisonment for selling the carcasses of dead tigers.
Italian Prime Minister The trial of Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi on corruption charges commences.
IAEA The International Atomic Energy Agency calls a summit in Vienna to tackle concerns about nuclear safety following the Fukushima crisis.
Qatar Qatar recognizes Libyan rebels as the representative of the Libyan people, after a deal to market crude oil.
Brain A 2,500-year-old preserved human brain dating from the Iron Age is found in Heslington in the English city of York.
Russia Seventeen militants and three Russian security force members die in fighting in Ingushetia while two suspects in the Domodedovo International Airport bombing are arrested.
Car bomb A car bomb attack on a construction company in Afghanistan's Paktika Province kills at least 13 people and injures another fifty.
Alassane Ouattara Rebel forces loyal to presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara seize the town of Duékoué in western Côte d'Ivoire from government forces.
Al Wefaq, the leading Shi'ite opposition party, claims that 250 people have been detained and 47 held in detention since the declaration of martial law.
The President of the United States Barack Obama gives a televised address on progress in the Libyan campaign.
Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard of the Canadian Forces Air Command is named to lead enforcement of the Libya no fly zone.
Opposition forces in the 2011 Libyan civil war attack Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte with disputed claims that they have captured it.
Syria's VP says Assad will announce important decisions that will 'please the people' in the next two days.
Syria forces open fire on protesters in Daraa, witness says although other reports claim that they were firing shots in the air.