NASA A NASA spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution.
Austrian conscription referendum, 2013 Preliminary results show Austrians have voted by a wide margin to retain compulsory military service.
Austria Austria holds a national referendum, choosing between keeping the current system of a conscripted army and optional social service for young men, or introducing a professional army and a voluntary community service.
Germany In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-left opponents win a narrow victory in Lower Saxony state election.
India Indian Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs on Thursday decided to raise the cap on subsidised liquefied petroleum gas to nine cylinders per household in a year from existing six.
Second inauguration The second inauguration of Barack Obama as the President of the United States takes place in the Blue Room of the White House.
Drug lord A drug lord named Mario Smith Pomare, who had long been wanted by the police in Colombia, is arrested at his villa on the Atlantic coast of Honduras.
Shoots and kills a family, with three children A 15-year-old male shoots and kills a family, with three children, at a house near Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. A suspect is later apprehended.
State Department The United States Department of State issues a travel warning to United States citizens for the country of Algeria in response to the In Aménas hostage crisis.
France A French sailor who had spent three days adrift in a life raft in the Southern Ocean off the coast of Tasmania in Australia is rescued by the cruise ship MV "Orion".
Prokopyevsky District At least four miners are killed and four others trapped after a fire at a mine in Prokopyevsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.
The death toll has risen to at least 48 hostages killed during a four-day siege at a gas plant, raising the number of militants and their captives killed to at least 80. Algerian troops had found the bodies of 25 hostages at the complex on Sunday.
Junta troops Burmese troops launch an attack on a strategic hilltop held by rebel Kachin forces in the north of the country, breaking a government ceasefire.
Islamists Islamists flee the town of Diabaly, Mali, after repeated French airstrikes. The government of Mali now says that they control the city.
Syrian civil war Syrian refugees fleeing the violence from the Syrian civil war are gunned down by the Syrian Army while trying to cross the Jordanian border.