• Syrian uprising (2011-present):
  • A Human Rights Watch report claims that Syrian intelligence agencies are running 27 torture centers across Syria. (Reuters via Yahoo! News) (CNN)
• At least 25 people are killed and 40 wounded in a truck bombing in the market place of the Iraqi city of Diwaniyah. (AP via Google News)

• Bob Diamond resigns as the Chief Executive of British bank Barclays following a scandal in which the bank tried to manipulate the Libor and Euribor interest rates systems. (BBC)

• A major earthquake strikes New Zealand with minor damage reported. (The New Zealand Herald) (ABC News)

• Pakistan decides to reopen key NATO supply routes into Afghanistan after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for a NATO airstrike that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers and officials in November 2011. (BBC)

• Police search the home and offices of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy as part of a judicial investigation into financial relations between his political camp and L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. (Reuters)
• The current governing coalition in Romania, the Social Liberal Union, starts a fast-paced parliamentary offensive against President Traian Basescu by dismissing the leaders of both chambers of Parliament. (Reuters)
• Hundreds of activists demonstrate in Ramallah to protest against the violent dispersal of two similar rallies at the weekend in a rare expression of public discontent with the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmud Abbas. (AFP)

• American gambler Antonio Esfandiari wins the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In "The Big One for One Drop" with the highest prize money in poker of $18.3 million. (AP via NBC Sports)