A judge declines to throw out the case against actress Lindsay Lohan in which she is accused of lying to a California police officer after a car accident in 2012. (Star Pulse)
Lauren Silberman becomes the first woman to try out for the National Football League, but her attempt to make a team ends after two kicks with an injury. (USA Today)
Eddie Maher, who spent almost 20 years as a fugitive in the United States, is jailed for five years for stealing a security van containing £1.2m in Suffolk, England. (BBC)
Willcom announces the Phone Strap 2 WX06A, which weighs only 32 grams. The company advertises it as the world's "smallest and lightest phone". (The Verge)
Scientists in the United States publish the most detailed scans of the human brain to date as part of a project to understand how the organ works. (BBC)
UK's Office of Fair Trading gives the country's top 50 payday loans companies 12 weeks to change their practices after identifying "widespread irresponsible lending". (BBC)
Disaster and accidents
All nine people, including two pilots and seven passengers, on board a
1968, blasts Roy Keane over his position on Nani's controversial red card, describing Keane as being "in a minority of one. Not one person said it was a red card except Roy". (BBC)(The Daily Telegraph)
The Greek-owned oil tanker MT Smyrni is released along with its 26 crew members for a reported ransom of $9.5 million after being held hostage for 10 months. (Reuters)
Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond is set to be paid about £2m ($3m) in July, a year after he left the bank following its Libor interest rate fixing scandal. (News24)
Politics and elections
Mid Ulster by-election, holding onto the seat vacated by Martin McGuinness at the end of 2012. (BBC)
UAE-owned chemical tanker MV Royal Grace is released along with its crew of 20 for an undisclosed ransom amount after being held hostage for over a year. (Reuters)
2013 Kenyan presidential election indicate that Uhuru Kenyatta has won a victory in the first round with just over 50% of the vote. His leading opponent Raila Odinga says that he will challenge the results. (BBC)(Euronews)(The Guardian)
Six teenagers are killed and two other people are injured in a car accident near Warren, Ohio, United States. It is the deadliest accident in Trumbull County history and the deadliest in Ohio in three years. (CNN)
Wardak Province in the latest insider attack against coalition forces. In a separate incident, two Afghan civilians are shot dead by American soldiers after failing to stop at a checkpoint near Kabul. (BBC)(Al Jazeera)
Henrique Capriles Radonski standing as an opposition candidate. (CNN)
Hungary's parliament passes a series of constitutional changes to counteract previous court rulings. Critics claim the move undermines the rule of law. (BBC)
Former AC Milan and Italy legend Gennaro Gattuso says he will retire from the game in the summer 2013 in order to focus on his coaching ambitions. (Goal.com)
suicide bombers strike central Baghdad, followed by a militant attack on the Justice Ministry building. At least 25 people are killed, including 7 police officers and 3 militants, along with 50 wounded. (CNN)(Reuters)
Mexican Drug War
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Gunmen storm a bar in Cancún, Mexico, and kill 7 people, also 4 others were wounded in the attack. The authorities allege that the victims were part of a taxi union. (AP via The Washington Post)
Scientists working on the Lazarus Project announce that they have successfully rejuvenated cells of Rheobatrachus silus, a species of frog extinct since 1983. (Science 2.0)
European Nations Cup Second Division to earn their 18th consecutive Test victory. This at least ties the all-time record for consecutive Test wins, and (depending on the source) may be a new record. (ESPN Scrum)
United States Supreme Court holds in a 6–3 decision that the first-sale doctrine applies to the domestic sale of foreign copies of copyrighted work lawfully made abroad. (IP-Watch)
At least 42 people are killed and 84 injured after a reported
suicide bombing at a Damascusmosque. Senior pro-government Sunni cleric Mohammed al-Buti is amongst those killed. (Reuters)
President of the
Syrian government for orchestratring it. The Free Syrian Army denies involvement in the attack on the grounds that it doesn't target mosques. (Al Jazeera)
2013 Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh tornado: At least 20 people are killed and more than 200 injured when a powerful tornado rips through the southeastern district of Brahmanbaria in Bangladesh. (CNN)
Eleven inmates are missing and two guards injured after gunmen attacked a prison in Trikala, Greece, less than a week after a hostage siege at a different jail. (BBC)
Around 1,000 dead ducks are pulled from Sichuan River in southwest China, sparking health and environmental concerns among residents. Also, more than 16,000 dead pigs have been pulled from Shanghai's Huangpu River over the past two weeks. (BBC)
International relations
The
Bagram Jail, its main detention facility in Afghanistan, to the country's government. (Al Jazeera)
The United Nations prepares to move about half of its international staff in Syria out of the country as violence creeps closer to UN facilities. (AFP via GlobalPost)
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
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A roadside bombing kills the head of a local town council and a member of a provincial council in
deposits, and that big depositors in Cypriot banks can lose up to 40% of their funds, while depositors with less than 100,000 euros in their accounts will not be affected by bailout plans. (BBC)(CNN)
T-Mobile USA removes the contract requirement from its mobile phone payment plans, becoming the first of the four major national wireless carriers in the U.S. to do so. (The New York Times)
post-mortem examination finds Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky's death was "consistent with hanging", after the examination found nothing to indicate a violent struggle or involvement of another party. (BBC)
CONCACAF Fourth Round, the United States and Mexico draw 0–0 at Estadio Azteca, giving the USA a point in World Cup qualifying at Azteca for only the second time ever. (ESPN)
A German property developing firm removes parts of the East Side Gallery, a historic stretch of the Berlin Wall amid heavy police presence, despite a week of protests. (BBC)
spam-fighting group and the hosting firmCyberBunker sparks retaliatory attacks, flooding core infrastructure of the Internet, in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyberattack in history. (BBC)
Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE), a pan-European anti-racism group, reports England's football fans to FIFA over racist chants roared throughout last Friday's World Cup qualifying match in San Marino. Among the chants were songs referring to the IRA and Second World War and a ditty calling for Anton and Rio Ferdinand to be tossed on a bonfire. England face a heavy fine as punishment and the prospect of further sanctions, such as playing qualifiers behind closed doors. (Goal.com)(The Guardian)
Dar es Salaam building collapse: At least 36 are killed and around 25 more are trapped when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (BBC)(CNN)(AllAfrica.com)
2013 Korean crisis: North Korea declares it is in a state of war with South Korea, and will conduct any further dealings under "wartime regulations". Russia urges calm on both sides. North Korea threatens to shut down the industrial plant in Kaesong, on the border with South Korea. (Reuters)(RT)(CBS News)
Politics and elections
President of ItalyGiorgio Napolitano forms two groups of people, both politicians and entrepreneurs, who will propose ideas to solve the Italian economic and political crisis. The government led by Mario Monti will be in charge until a new government can be formed. (BBC)
The Eiffel Tower is evacuated for a time after an anonymous caller made a bomb threat. No explosives were found, police are still searching for the caller. (Fox News)
Three people are shot (one critically) at three stores at the Edgewood Towne Center shopping plaza near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The victims were taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital while police searched the area. (NBC News)
The NigerianArmy kills 14 suspected Boko Haram members in a raid on a building, with the death of one soldier and the capture of a potential suicide bomber in a car full of explosives in the northern city of Kano. (BBC)
Business and economy
Two Chinese provinces pass restrictions on house sales designed to dampen a booming housing market. (The New York Times)
