Mohamed Morsi Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi fires Mohamad Hussein Tantawi, head of the country's armed forces.
Qatar Qatar is to deposit US$2bn at the Egyptian Central Bank in an effort to help support an economy battered by a year and a half of political turmoil, an Egyptian presidency statement reports.
Billy Graham Billy Graham, who had recently suffered from pneumonia in November 2011, is hospitalized again, likely for several days, at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, due to bronchitis, and is being treated with antibiotics.
Egyptian forces Egyptian forces kill six suspected militants in a village near the city of el-Arīsh in northern Sinai.
Mexican drug war The state police commander of the Mexican state of Chihuahua is gunned down and killed in Ciudad Juárez.
Edgar Morales Pérez, the mayor-elect of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, is shot to death by gunmen while riding his vehicle.
Syrian civil war Renewed violence is reported in the Syrian cities of Aleppo, Damascus, Homs and Idlib, as Syrian state television reports the death of one of its reporters.