Y-chromosome haplogroup A newly discovered Y-chromosome haplogroup is thought to push back the time of Y-chromosomal Adam to 338,000 years ago.
Papal conclave, 2013 Papal conclave, 2013: The Brazilian Conference of Bishops (the largest such conference in the world) officially advises the cardinals of Brazil in the conclave explicitly to ask the mass media to print supportive articles on the Archbishop of São Paulo, Cardinal Odilo Scherer.
Ted Baillieu Ted Baillieu resigns as the Premier of the Australian state of Victoria as his embattled government was pushed close to collapse.
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals holds in favor of Google in a lawsuit based on Wisconsin privacy laws in a decision that will tend to protect the vendors of search engines from those who object to the unwholesome responses they get when entering a vanity search.
Bob Carr Bob Carr, the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, releases a report into the handling of the case of Ben Zygier who died in Israeli custody in December 2010 and was believed to be a Mossad agent.
South Korea The South Korean military states that it is prepared to respond if North Korea launches an attack as it threatened yesterday.
Beechcraft BE20 All nine people, including two pilots and seven passengers, on board a Beechcraft Super King Air B200 airplane chartered by Peruvian mining company die after the plane became ensnared in power lines and crashed to the ground in the La Libertad Region, Peru.
British The UK's Office of Fair Trading gives the country's top 50 payday loans companies 12 weeks to change their practices after identifying "widespread irresponsible lending".
European Commission The European Commission fines Microsoft €561 million for failing to provide residents of the European Union with a selection of web browsers as an alternative to Internet Explorer.
United Nations Security Council The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2093 that partially lifts a decades-old arms embargo on Somalia for one year, allowing the government in Mogadishu to buy weapons to strengthen its security forces to fight al-Qaeda linked Islamists.
Syrian civil war 20 United Nations peacekeepers are detained by around 30 armed fighters in the Golan Heights on the border between Syria and Israel.
The Arab League grants the Syrian National Coalition the seat within its organisation formerly occupied by the Syrian Republic.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague announces the UK will send armoured vehicles and body armour to opposition forces in Syria to help save lives.
Battle of Ar-Raqqah Battle of Ar-Raqqah: Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, the first major city to be under rebel control in the Syrian civil war.