Philippines Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada visits former President Gloria Arroyo in the hospital where she is currently detained.
World War II British World War II computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing, who had been chemically castrated in 1952 following his conviction for homosexuality, is given a posthumous royal pardon.
Tupelo In Tupelo, Mississippi two or three armed bank robbery suspects, fleeing police following a holdup at a Bancorp South, shoot dead one policeman and injure another.
United Kingdom Former UK MP Denis MacShane is sentenced to six months in jail for expenses fraud after he admitted to submitting 19 false receipts totaling £12,900.
Maria Alyokhina Political activists Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, of the Russian band Pussy Riot, are given amnesty less than three months before the end of their sentences. They had been convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".
Russians The Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, dies at the age of 94.
Palestinian groups Palestinian militants fire a Kassam rocket from Gaza which lands next to a bus stop used by schoolchildren in the Ashkelon area in southern Israel; no injuries are reported.
Russia Russia sends 25 armored trucks and 50 other vehicles to Syria to help transport toxins that are to be destroyed under an international agreement to rid the nation of its chemical arsenal.
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) A terrorist attack on a news complex in Tikrit, Iraq kills 5 people.
Pakistani The Pakistani army launches a military offensive against Taliban insurgents near the Afghan border. There are accusations that dozens of civilians are killed.