Raúl Castro Raúl Castro is elected by the National Assembly of People's Power to a second term as the President of Cuba with Miguel Díaz-Canel announced as the First Vice-President of the Council of State.
Nicos Anastasiades Nicos Anastasiades of the conservative Democratic Rally party wins the Cypriot presidential election.
Anemia Anemia drug Omontys is recalled due to reports of fatal anaphylactic reactions in 0.02% of patients.
85th Academy Awards The 85th Academy Awards are held at the Dolby Theatre in the Los Angeles district of Hollywood.
Africa Eleven African nations including all the members of the African Great Lakes region sign a United Nations brokered peace deal for the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
War in Afghanistan President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai orders the United States to leave Wardak province amid allegations of torture associated with US special forces.
Two guards and an Afghan police officer are killed in coordinated suicide bombing attacks in Jalalabad and Logar Province in eastern Afghanistan, while a third such attack on the National Directorate of Security in Kabul is foiled.
Chad 10 Chadian soldiers and 28 Islamist insurgents are killed in heavy fighting in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains of northern Mali.
France French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin, who was wounded near Idlib in January 2013, dies in Antakya, Turkey, after surgery.