Pyramid The remains of a pyramid for an adviser to Pharaoh Ramses II is found in an archaeological excavation in Luxor, Egypt.
Egyptian President An adviser to the President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi claims that parliamentary elections will commence in late April 2013.
Japan Japan executes by hanging three convicted murderers, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiro Kanagawa and Keiki Muto. The number of death-row inmates in Japan now stands at 134.
Police sergeant Retired police sergeant Drew Peterson, whose fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007, is sentenced by the US state of Illinois to 38 years incarceration for the 2004 murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
Bhandara district Three young girls are kidnapped, raped, and killed in the Bhandara district of India.
Shooting A car crash and shooting occurs at the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. Three people are dead, and six others are wounded.
PayPal PayPal, the online payments business, a division of eBay, launches a European version of the PayPal Here mobile payments system.
India At least 20 people are dead and 54 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
Car bomb At least 61 people are killed and more than 200 injured following a car bombing near Syria's Baath Party headquarters in Damascus. Three other bombings kill 22 people and injure 50 others in the suburb of Barzeh, most of them government soldiers. These are the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital since the outbreak of the civil war.