Intel Science Talent Search The 2013 Intel Science Talent Search concludes with a Colorado high school senior winning the top prize for her work on algae biofuels.
European Southern Observatory The European Southern Observatory's ALMA telescope begins service in Chile's Atacama Desert.
Papal conclave, 2013 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis. He is the first pope of the Catholic Church from Latin America and the first Jesuit pope.
White smoke rises from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel in the evening indicating that a new pope has been chosen.
Black smoke rises from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, signalling that Roman Catholic Cardinals had not elected a new pope in the morning session of the second day of voting at their conclave.
Siumut After her Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, Aleqa Hammond is set to become first female Prime Minister of Greenland.
Adam Giles Adam Giles is elected as the new leader of the Country Liberal Party in Australia's Northern Territory replacing Terry Mills as Chief Minister. He will be the first indigenous head of government in Australian history.
Australian police Hundreds of heavily armed Australian police raid motorcycle gangs in Sydney and its suburbs and seize explosives, guns, drugs and cash and arrest high-ranking members.
Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia Seven men are executed for theft in Saudi Arabia after their appeals for clemency are denied.
Shooting spree A shooting spree leaves four dead and two wounded in the villages of Mohawk and Herkimer in Herkimer County, New York. Police storm the gan abandoned bar in Herkimer where the gunman, Kurt R. Myers, 64, had holed himself up. After the gunman shot at officers and killed Ape, an FBI dog, police shot and killed him.
North Korea North Korea confirms that it has shredded the 60-year-old Korean Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War, and warns that the next step will be an act of "merciless" military retaliation.
Embraer S.A. A twin-engine Embraer 821 plane crashes in the Brazilian state of Pará, killing all nine passengers and the pilot.
European Parliament The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time in its history.
European Union Ahmad Shihadeh, a member of the European Union's delegation in Syria, is killed in a rocket attack in a Damascus suburb.
Kunduz Province A suicide bomber kills 10 spectators, including the district police chief, during a local gaming event in Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan.
Bemina Five Indian paramilitary soldiers are killed and three civilians injured by two militants near a school in Bemina area of Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, later two militants being killed by CRPF.