Yoshiki Sasai Renowned Japanese scientist Yoshiki Sasai commits suicide, after the discrediting of certain experimental results he supervised, regarding stem cells.
Earthquake A 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes near Johannesburg, in the town of Orkney, South Africa, killing one person and injuring 17.
Padma River Rescuers struggle to locate a sunken ferry in the Padma River in Bangladesh leaving at least two people dead and many more missing.
Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox withdraws its $80 billion bid to take over Time Warner.
Russia The Russian consumer protection agency, "Rospotrebnadzor", adds Kentucky Gentleman to a growing list of imports banned, saying that this Bourbon whiskey includes "additives that can cause functional and eventually organic changes in the central and peripheral nervous systems, the endocrine system, as well as cause cancer and problems with infertility in men and women."
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict Israeli ground forces will leave the Gaza Strip ahead of an Egyptian mediated ceasefire starting at 0500 GMT today.
Marinka Ukrainian government forces recapture control of Marinka on the western edge of the pro-Russian rebel-held city of Donetsk.
War in Afghanistan A U.S. major general Harold J. Greene is killed, and a German brigadier general and several American troops are among the 15 wounded, in an attack by an Afghan soldier gunman - who was killed by Afghan soldiers - at Kabul's Marshal Fahim National Defense University.