State Senate The State Senate in the US state of Washington passes legislation allowing same sex marriage in the state.
Naser al-Raas Canadian national Naser al-Raas is arrested in Bahrain for attending a rally in the 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising.
Football riots At least 73 people are killed as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in the city of Port Said.
Antitrust European antitrust authorities block a planned merger between NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse.
American Airlines The parent company of American Airlines says that it will slash 13,000 jobs or 15% of its workforce.
Singapore Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong ban poultry imports from the Australian state of Victoria while Japan bans imports from the whole of Australia following an outbreak of a low pathogenic form of the avian influenza (separate from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain).
American American television host and producer Don Cornelius, creator of "Soul Train" is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Poles Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, former winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, dies of lung cancer at 88.
Nigeria Nigeria's State Security Service claim to have arrested Abul-Qaqa, a purported spokesman for the radical Islamist Boko Haram group.
Pakistan Air Force Pakistan Air Force jets bomb militant positions in the Orakzai and Kurram Agency areas near the border with Afghanistan with claims that 31 alleged insurgents were killed.
Xinhua The Xinhua news agency reports that 25 Chinese workers held captive in the Sinai region of Egypt have been released.
Times The London "Times" reports that a secret NATO report claims that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is set to regain control over Afghanistan after international forces withdraw from the country.