Deputy prime minister Denmark's deputy prime minister and Minister of Economic Affairs and the Interior, Margrethe Vestager, is nominated as the Danish candidate for EU commissioner, bringing the number of female commissioners in the Juncker Commission up to five with only three countries left to nominate a candidate.
National People's Congress China's parliament decides Hong Kong cannot freely choose its next leader in 2017.
Paris An explosion in an apartment building in the Paris suburb of Rosny-sous-Bois results in four deaths, 11 people injured and five unaccounted for.
Pakistan At least three people have been killed in clashes between the Pakistani police and opponents of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Iraqi insurgency Iraqi security forces reach the town of Amerli which had been besieged by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces.
United Nations Thirty-two United Nations peacekeepers from the Philippines were evacuated under fire from the Golan Heights border checkpoint between Syria and Israel, while others remain under fire from groups including the Al-Nusra Front.