Egypt An Egyptian court acquits 169 Muslim Brotherhood members for charges relating to unrest that followed the ousting of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
Same-sex marriage Same-sex marriage in Oregon becomes legal as a U.S. federal district court judge rules that the state's ban on such marriages violates equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
U.S. Justice Department The United States Department of Justice charges five Chinese military officers with hacking into private-sector American companies in a bid for competitive advantage.
Subway An electrical problem causes an explosion south of Seoul in Seoul Metropolitan Subway Gunpo station, injuring 11 people.
Pyongyang An apartment building collapses in Pyongyang, North Korea, with casualties estimated to be in the hundreds.
Park Geun-hye Park Geun-Hye, the President of South Korea, announces that the Republic of Korea Coast Guard will be broken up in the wake of the ferry disaster.
AstraZeneca AstraZeneca rejects the latest, and likely the last, takeover price from Pfizer, close to 70 billion pounds or US$118 billion.
Rebel NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, says the Western allies had not seen any sign of a withdrawal of Russian forces.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin says he ordered troops in the Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions to withdraw and return to their permanent bases.