Launches SpaceX successfully launches the EchoStar 23 satellite, a Direct-to-home television broadcast services for Brazil, into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, using the fully expendable version of their Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
United States immigration ban A second U.S. federal judge, Theodore D. Chuang of Maryland, grants that state's motion for a temporary restraining order on President Trump's revised travel ban.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation becomes involved in the search for Elizabeth Thomas and the manhunt for her suspected kidnapper, Tad Cummins.
Letter bomb A letter bomb explodes at the office of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Paris, injuring one person.
Grasse A shooting at a school in Grasse, France, injures at least eight people. Authorities arrest a 17-year-old student.
Mount Etna An eruption at Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily injures at least ten people, including several in a BBC News crew.
Syrian civil war An unknown perpetrator carries out an airstrike on a mosque in the rebel-held village of al-Jineh near Aleppo, killing at least 42 people.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia The Somali pirates that hijacked the "Aris 13", a United Arab Emirates-owned oil tanker, release it without condition.