Japan Researchers in Japan and Australia successfully teleport wave packets of light, the first transfer of quantum information from one point to another in a Schrödinger's cat experiment.
Barack Obama At a fundraiser, Barack Obama is caught on an open mic confronting Paul Ryan's record of creating the debt which he is now claiming to be trying to fix, among numerous other things.
Australian Council of Trade Unions The Australian Council of Trade Unions and Australian Workers' Union threatens to withdraw support for the Julia Gillard minority government's plans to introduce a carbon tax unless it can be guaranteed that no jobs will be lost.
Beijing A Chinese student from Beijing studying at York University in Toronto is found dead after a male stalker entered her room to use a cell phone while she was chatting online via webcam to a friend in China; she was found undressed and her computer is missing.
Nicolas Cage US actor Nicolas Cage is arrested in New Orleans for alleged domestic abuse battery, disturbing the peace and public drunkenness.
Karl Rodney Karl Rodney, the organiser of controversial trips to the Caribbean by United States House of Representatives member Charles Rangel, is charged with lying to investigators about them.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan announces indictments in the case of United_States_v._Scheinberg, indicting the owners of the three largest online poker sites accepting U.S. players—PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker—on charges of bank fraud, gambling offenses, and money laundering.
Hong Kong Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption arrests 11 Deutsche Bank staff, including two senior officials, for alleged involvement in a fraudulent trading case.
Australia Former Australian water polo player Keli Lane is jailed for 18 years for murdering her baby daughter Tegan Lane in 1996.
TEPCO The Tokyo Electric Power Company will pay a provisional 1 million yen to each household living within the exclusion zone near the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
Nasdaq Nasdaq, in pursuit of its bid for control of NYSE Euronext, would be willing to sell one key NYSE Euronext property, the American Stock Exchange, in order to resolve antitrust issues, according to an unnamed source cited by Reuters.
Credit rating agency Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades Ireland's rating to Baa3, one step above junk bond status.
People's Republic of China The Chinese economy grew by 9.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2011 while inflation was 5.4%, the highest level in nearly three years.
Australia Australian artist Ben Quilty wins the Archibald Prize for his portrait of artist Margaret Olley.
Blaise Compaoré Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso, who took power in a coup 24 years ago, reportedly flees a mutiny of his military bodyguards.
A bomb explodes A bomb explodes in a mosque in the Indonesian city of Cirebon in West Java with at least one person dead and seventeen injured.
2010-2011 Algerian protests 2010-2011 Algerian protests: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika addresses the nation and pledges reforms amid weeks of protests.
2011 Jordanian protests 2011 Jordanian protests: Islamists clash with monarchists in the town of Zarqa.
Syrian uprising 2011 Syrian protests: Police use tear gas to disperse tens of thousands of protesters in the capital Damascus.
Civil war 2011 Libyan civil war: Human rights groups accuse pro-Gaddafi troops of using cluster bombs in Misrata.