Syrian government The Syrian government sets the presidential election for June 3, with opposition groups calling it a "parody of democracy".
US Marshals A defendant is shot to death by a U.S. marshal at a U.S. federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah after attempting to attack a witness.
2003 bombings Five people are sentenced to death and 37 others given prison sentences for their roles in the 2003 bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 A Tropical Cyclone hampers the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board. A U.S. Navy submarine Bluefin-21 is on mission to find the wreckage.
San Jose International Airport A 16-year-old teenager stows away in the landing-gear compartment of a flight from San Jose International Airport to Kahului Airport, surviving a severe lack of oxygen and -80°F temperatures during a 5+ hour flight.
Boeing 737 A Boeing 737 operated by Malaysian Airlines carrying 166 people makes an emergency landing after a tire on the main landing gear blew out.
2014 South Korean ferry capsizing Four more crew members from the ferry are arrested for deserting the vessel as it was sinking.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye condemns the action of crew members as tantamount to murder. 87 people are known to have died and 238 are missing and presumed dead in the sinking of Sewol ferry on 16 April.
Cbeyond Birch Communications agrees to buy technology and communications equipment provider Cbeyond for $323 million.
Tony Caplin Tony Caplin resigns from the UK Public Works Loan Board after it is revealed that he had gone bankrupt.
Mogadishu A car bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia, detonates, killing a member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia and injuring another.
Al-Qaeda Thirty suspected al-Qaeda militants and six civilians are killed in a drone strike by the United States in Yemen.
Rebel According to pro-Russian militants, the bodies of two pro-Russian militants are pulled from the Seversky Donets River in Sloviansk, Ukraine, with both having multiple stab wounds. The claim could not be independently verified.
Syrian Air Force Syrian Air Force air strikes in Aleppo, Syria, killing dozens of people; 14 others are killed by barrel bombing in the neighborhood of Baeedeen.
South Sudan Conflict The UN condemns the "Targeted Killings" and wounding of hundreds of civilians based on their ethnic origins in the town of Bentiu after South Sudanese rebels seized the oil hub last week.