Pope Francis Pope Francis appoints Spain's José Rodríguez Carballo, O.F.M., as Secretary to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, which oversees all Catholic religious orders, his first nomination to the Vatican bureaucracy.
Lebanon In Lebanon, President Michel Suleiman asks Tammam Salam, a legislator and a former minister of culture, to head a new cabinet after a vast majority of the members of Parliament chose him for the job.
Bangladesh In Bangladesh, thousands of protesters call for blasphemy laws that would include death penalty for bloggers who insult Islam, the majority religion of the country.
United Kingdom A 24-year-old British tourist is found dead in a houseboat in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Muslims Five people are killed in clashes between Muslims and Christians on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.
2013 meat adulteration scandal 2013 meat adulteration scandal: The Swedish furniture giant Ikea withdraws moose meat lasagne, sold in its worldwide stores. Unlabelled pork is found after increased scrutiny from the scandal.
2013 Thane building collapse 2013 Thane building collapse: Rescuers in India end the search for survivors of a building collapse which killed 74 people in the city of Thane on April 4.
TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power Company says that it is moving tons of highly radioactive water from a temporary storage tank to another after detecting signs of leakage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Northern Mali conflict One soldier is killed when the National Guard attacked a camp occupied by police who supported the 2012 Malian coup d'état that ousted the Malian president.
Tuareg separatists in Northern Mali mark the one year anniversary since the founding of the unilaterally declared Azawad.
Qalat A bombing in Qalat, capital of the southern Zabul Province, kills three U.S. soldiers and two U.S. civilians, along with an Afghan doctor. An American civilian dies in another attack in the east of the country.
Suicide bombing At least 22 people are killed and more than 60 others injured when a suicide bomber blows himself up in a busy election campaign tent in the Iraqi city of Baquba.