Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front Former Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front guerilla leader Salvador Sánchez Cerén is sworn in as the President of El Salvador.
2014 Thai coup d'état The Royal Thai Armed Forces deploy against major protests planned for today but a small protest goes ahead outside a shopping mall in central Bangkok.
Heathrow Airport A teenager is arrested at Heathrow Airport in England in relation to suspected involvement in Syrian-related terrorism.
Muslims in France A Muslim Frenchman with connections to Syrian jihadists is arrested for murdering four Jewish people in the Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting.
Mi-8 A Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashes near Munozero (Мунозеро (деревня) in northern Russia's Murmansk Oblast with nineteen people onboard with two confirmed survivors and the fate of the other passengers unclear.
EGX30 Stocks in Egypt fall sharply with the EGX30 losing 4.2% and the EGX100 losing 5% after the government proposed a new 10% capital gains tax.
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram gunmen have been released.