Canada Canadian Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty resigns, planning a return to the private sector. Joe Oliver is named to replace him.
South Africa South Africa's Public Protector finds that President Jacob Zuma has "benefitted unduly" from government funded upgrades of his rural residence.
Toyota Toyota is ordered to pay $1.2 billion to settle charges that it lied to United States safety investigators and the public about deadly accelerator defects.
Egypt Two Egyptian army officers and five militants are killed during a warehouse raid in Qalyubiya province north of Cairo.
Israeli Air Force The Israeli Air Force launches several air strikes on Syrian military sites, killing one Syrian soldier and wounding seven others, in retaliation for a bombing that wounded four of its troops in the Golan Heights.
2014 Crimean crisis Russian forces overrun the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol and another naval base.