• Shelling of Yeonpyeong:
  • North Korea shells Yeonpyeong island, South Korea at 14:34 local time in response to South Korean shelling close to the North Korean border during military drills. The North's shelling kills two marines and prompts a military response by the South in one of the most serious clashes since the 1953 armistice of the Korean War. (YTN Television) (BBC) (Yonhap) (China Daily)(The Sun UK)
• The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claims responsibility for the destruction of an oil pipeline feeding a refinery in the Niger Delta. (AFP via Google News) (CNN)

• Clarence House confirms that Prince William and Catherine Middleton are to be married at Westminster Abbey on Friday 29 April 2011. (BBC)

• Qantas announces that its fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbos will start returning to service on Saturday. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• A United States federal court jury decides that SAP AG must pay Oracle Corporation $1.3 billion for copyright infringement, the largest ever damages payment for copyright infringement. (Bloomberg)

• Cambodia declares a day of mourning for at least 378 people killed in a stampede in the capital Phnom Penh. (BBC)
• At least seven bodies are recovered following a mine collapse in Suriname. (Jamaica Observer)

• Beauty and the Beast: Diamond Edition on 2-Disc DVD

• A Saudi woman accused of torturing her Indonesian maid is sent to jail while the maid is hospitalised, in a case that has caused tensions between the two countries. (AFP via Google News)
• The Gambia severs diplomatic and economic relations with Iran and orders Iranian government representatives to leave within 48 hours. The Gambia has given no reason for the move. (BBC) (Reuters)
• India forms two new military divisions, comprising more than 36,000 men, to be deployed in Arunachal Pradesh near the border with China. (BBC)

• Bangladesh sentences a further 23 soldiers from the Bangladesh Rifles to imprisonment over a mutiny in February 2009. (Xinhua)

• The Irish financial crisis:
  • Brian Cowen, the Taoiseach, claims in Dáil Éireann that he is "not clinging to power". (RTÉ)
  • One of Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey's many offices is targeted with graffiti. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ)
  • Morgan C Jones, actor and satirist from Dublin, announces a "you're fired" protest against the government for Dáil Éireann on Thursday. (The Irish Times)
  • The opposition Labour Party grants its leader Eamon Gilmore "a free hand to take any initiative he deems appropriate over the coming days". (RTÉ)
  • A candidate in Thursday's by-election withdraws calling it a complete farce with a general election now due to occur in January. Some islands voted in the by-election yesterday. (RTÉ)
• Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is reunited with her son for the first time in a decade. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
• King Abdullah II of Jordan commissions the Prime Minister Samir Rifai to form a new government following recent elections. (Bloomberg)