Andrei Kobyakov Andrei Kobyakov replaces Mikhail Myasnikovich as Belarus's new prime minister in the biggest government reshuffle since 2010.
Sweden Sweden's center-left government reaches a deal with the center-right opposition, The Alliance, giving a minority government room to govern so that the country's first snap election since 1958, originally planned for 22 March 2015, can be cancelled; the Sweden Democrats react by announcing that they will put down a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
2014 Southeast Asian floods Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reports that at least eight people are dead.
Internet North Korea experiences another Internet and cell phone outage and holds the United States responsible.
Somali civil war A top level Somali al-Shabab militant with a $3m US bounty, Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, surrenders to police.