NBA NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announces that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is banned from the league for life after a recording of Sterling making racist comments surfaces. Sterling is also fined the maximum allowable US$2.5 million as the NBA examines options for a forced sale.
Clayton Lockett American prisoner Clayton Lockett dies of a heart attack in Oklahoma after a botched execution by lethal injection.
Venezuela Venezuelan officials announce that a former chief of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service, Eliecer Otaiza, was shot and killed on Saturday.
FedEx A shooting at a FedEx facility in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States, leaves six injured with the gunman committing suicide.
The President of South Korea Park Geun-hye apologises on national television for the government's poor handling of the incident.
Surveillance video footage captures the captain of MV "Sewol" Lee Joon-seok escaping the vessel and leaving behind his passengers.
North Korea North Korea warns South Korea that it will conduct live firing near the disputed maritime border.
United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs approves three of President Barack Obama's nominees to the Federal Reserve, including the nomination of Stanley Fischer to be its vice chairman.
Syria At least 37 people are killed and 85 others are injured in multiple explosions in the Syrian city of Homs.
Eastern Ukraine Pro-Russian militants in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk seize the regional administration's headquarters, resulting in a tense standoff with the militants and security personnel.