Portugal Portuguese authorities charge Luiz Felipe Scolari, the coach of the Brazil national football team, with tax fraud allegedly carried out when he was the coach of Portugal.
Oscar Pistorius A judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial orders the athlete to undertake a mental evaluation.
Chinese Anti-Chinese protests in southern Vietnam about the People's Republic of China deploying an oil rig in a disputed section of the South China Sea degenerate into the burning of up to 15 foreign-owned factories.
Turkish Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yıldız raises the death toll from the disaster to at least 274, with 120 people still trapped in the mine and 80 miners injured, four seriously.
Hyderabad At least three people are killed and 15 injured as a result of violent clashes between two religious communities in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
Rebel Talks to end the crisis in Ukraine begin, without representatives of pro-Russian separatist groups.
Soldiers Seven Yemeni Army soldiers and 16 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula militants are killed in fighting near the town of Azan in Shabwa province.