Geophysical Research Letters Studies published in "Geophysical Research Letters" and "Science" find that the West Antarctic ice sheet is potentially irrevocably melting.
Therrell High School Four students and another person are injured during a shooting near Therrell High School's campus in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A 17-year-old suspect is arrested.
International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court will conduct a preliminary examination in the claims that United Kingdom forces abused Iraqi detainees between 2003 and 2008.
Ehud Olmert Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been sentenced to six years in jail in a bribery case.
Vietnam Thousands of Vietnamese workers stage anti-China protests in front of factories with Chinese names over Beijing's decision to locate an oil rig in waters of the South China Sea also claimed by Hanoi.
North Korea An apartment block in the North Korean capital Pyongyang containing 100 families collapses.
Soma mine disaster At least 238 miners are killed and 120 others trapped in a coal mine in the town of Soma in Turkey's Manisa Province.
Christopher Columbus Investigators claim to have found the wreck of Christopher Columbus's flagship, the "Santa Maria", off the north coast of Haiti.
Nigeria Villagers in the Nigerian Kala-Balge district of Borno State form a vigilante group and successfully repel an attack from the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, seizing three cars and a military vehicle and killing around 200 of the militants.
France The body of 26-year-old French photojournalist Camille Lepage was found in the Bouar region. The French presidency released a statement saying she was "murdered" and announced that a team of investigators will be dispatched to the scene.
Rebel The governor of Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, Serhiy Taruta says his region, with the exception of Slaviansk, is prepared for the May 25 presidential election, calling the separatist referendum nothing more than a "sociological questionnaire".
Another 13 individuals, including Russian President Vladimir Putin's first deputy chief of staff, Vyacheslav Volodin and the self-declared mayor of Sloviansk, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, and two legal entities are added to the EU sanctions list for "undermining or threatening" Ukraine's sovereignty.
Valery Bolotov, a leader of the separatist movement in the eastern city of Luhansk, is wounded in an assassination attempt by an unknown assailant.