• A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan in Khushali, a village near Mir Ali, killing four people. (Jakarta Post)
• Rwanda withdraws a threat to remove its peacekeepers from Darfur after a United Nations report accused the Rwandan army of genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AFP) (BBC) (The East African)
• Around 70 insurgents are killed when two NATO helicopters strike inside Pakistan in its northwest Khost tribal area bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan strongly condemned the attack, calling it a violation of its airspace. (Yahoo! News) (Xinhua) (Reuters) (BBC)
• President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos describes the killing of Mono Jojoy as the "beginning of the end" for the Farc organization. (BBC) (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Afghanistan:
  • Three former Australian soldiers are charged with offences including manslaughter following an action in the Afghanistan War in which six civilians died. (Courier Mail)
  • The Taliban claim that they are holding a British foreign aid worker and offer to exchange her for Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistan scientist recently jailed in the United States. (The Telegraph)
• Three Palestinians said to be members of the Islamic Jihad group are killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern part of the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)

• Gloria Stuart, the oldest-ever nominee for an Academy award, specifically the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the elder Rose in the 1997 film Titanic, dies in Los Angeles, aged 100. (Variety)

• Unilever plc, an Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant, has entered into an agreement to buy Alberto-Culver, a manufacturer of hair and skin care products, for $3.7 billion. (TheStreet)

• At least thirteen people die in the Gulf of Aden after a small boat capsizes with a rescue effort by the USS Winston S. Churchill saving another 61 passengers. (News Limited)
• A 6.1 magnitude earthquake southwest of the Iranian city of Shiraz kills at least one person and injures three. (Reuters)
• A landslide in the town of Giraldo in Colombia's Antioquia Department buries 30 people with authorities believing there is little chance of them being rescued. (AFP via Google News)

• The US state department expresses disappointment at Israel's decision not to extend its ban on settlement building in the West Bank. (BBC)
• Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku calls for the People's Republic of China to compensate for Japanese patrol boats damaged in a confrontation with a Chinese fishing boat in the East China Sea. (AP via Houston Chronicle) (Al Jazeera)

• 95 people, including two former mayors and planning chief of Marbella, appear in court in Malaga in one of Spain's biggest corruption trials. (The Telegraph) (BBC)
• Chinese police investigate claims that a security firm colluded with officials to detain protesters in secret prisons. (BBC) (China Economic Observer) (AP)
• The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić resumes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. (CNN)
• Brandon Joseph Rhode is executed at a prison in Jackson, Georgia in the southern United States. (AJC)

• North Korea
  • Delegates arrive in the North Korean capital Pyongyang ahead of the largest Korean Workers' Party conference in decades. (Al Jazeera)
    • Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is named as a General, the clearest sign that he will be named the successor to his father. (The Guardian)
• The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela wins a majority of seats in the parliamentary election held yesterday but lost a two-thirds majority needed to pass major legislation unaided. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
• President of the United States Barack Obama signs a small business lending bill into law. (Reuters)

• The Philadelphia Phillies wins the National League East in Major League Baseball. (New York Times)

• Los Angeles experiences all-time record high temperature day at 45°C or 113F. (Los Angeles Times)(USA Today)