Anouchka van Miltenburg Anouchka van Miltenburg of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) is elected as President of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, giving the VVD the "Big Three" in Dutch politics: Prime Minister, President of the Senate and President of the House of Representatives.
Enough Project Activists from the Enough Project reveal through "The Guardian" newspaper that Omar al-Bashir's Sudan and Joseph Kabila's DR Congo together received 2.4 million pound sterling (around USD 4 million) in British military aid, in the last five years alone.
Tsuyoshi Kikukawa Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the former President of Japan's Olympus Corporation, pleads guilty to fraud for his role in the Olympus scandal.
Ethnic Chinese Chinese and Japanese diplomats meet in Beijing to lay out their respective countries' positions on the Senkaku Islands dispute.
Senkaku Islands dispute Over 50 Taiwanese ships clash with ships from the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands.
World Health Organisation The World Health Organisation announces a global alert and is investigating the case of a novel coronavirus found in a Qatari man returning from Saudi Arabia.
Magnitude A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hits near the Baja California peninsula with no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China's People's Liberation Army Navy's first aircraft carrier, the "Liaoning", commences service.
Combat drone An academic report from the United States finds that American drone attacks "terrorize" the civilian population of northern Pakistan, further stating that the benefits of drone attacks for the U.S. are "ambiguous at best".