Nigerian general election, 2015 Nigerian voters elect Muhammadu Buhari (who previously ruled as a military dictator in 1983-1985) of the All Progressives Congress as the next President of Nigeria.
Istanbul In a courthouse in Istanbul, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front of Turkey takes hostage the prosecutor handling the case of a 15-year-old who died in a police gas attack. The situation ends with police killing the gunmen. The prosecutor later dies at a hospital.
Falls Church, Virginia A prisoner accused of multiple bank robberies escapes from a hospital in Falls Church, Virginia after stealing a guard's gun. Washington, D.C. police capture him.
Malaysia A Malaysian court finds a local man guilty of the murder of two British students in Borneo in 2014.
Nature Neuroscience The journal Nature Neuroscience publishes research from Columbia University Medical School that finds that wage income of parents correlates with brain complexity in their children.
Germanwings Flight 9525 German newspaper "Bild" and French news magazine "Paris Match" say they have a passenger's cell phone video showing the plane's last moments before the crash.
Germanwings' owner Lufthansa officially acknowledges that it knew there were mental health issues with Andreas Lubitz before the crash.
Turkish Large parts of Turkey experience a power outage affecting public services and infrastructure including air traffic control, trams, and subways in Istanbul. As much as 65% of the country is without power.
India Landslides in India's Jammu and Kashmir state kill at least six people and leave sixteen others missing.