Peace talks Israeli–Palestinian peace talks start amid controversy over Israeli settlement expansion and the release of 26 Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis.
U.S. Justice Department The United States Department of Justice and six states file an antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways.
U.S. House of Representatives American politician and former House Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. is sentenced to 30 months in prison for spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items, and will serve his sentence first before his wife, former Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson, who was given a one year term for tax fraud.
Sinai insurgency Sinai insurgency: Israel intercepts and destroys a Grad rocket fired by Mujahideen Shura Council al-Qaeda members from Egyptian territory at the Red Sea town of Eilat.
Frank DeAngelis Frank DeAngelis, the longtime Columbine High School principal who led the school through the April 1999 Columbine High School massacre announces he will retire at the end of the 2013-14 school year.
Amazon rainforest Footage of the isolated and previously unseen Kawahiva tribe is recorded for the first time in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil.