• Aitizaz Hassan, a Pakistani boy who died after trying to stop a suicide bomber, is nominated for an award by Nawaz Sharif. (CNN)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Five hundred people are killed in inter-factional fighting between an alliance of secular rebels and moderate Islamists against radical Islamists. (BBC News)
• Central African Republic crisis
  • African migrants are to be evacuated as violence continues in the country. (CNN)
• 2013 Thai political crisis
  • Seven people are injured after protesters are attacked by gunfire. (Voice of America)
• Euromaidan
  • Yuri Lutsenko, one of the leaders of the protests, is injured during clashes with the police. (Los Angeles Times)
• War in Afghanistan
  • A four-year-old Afghan boy is killed by U.S. troops. (Business Standard)
• Somali Civil War
  • The United States is to deploy military advisers more than 20 years after the Black Hawk down incident. (Sydney Morning Herald)

• Total S.A. is to invest in shale gas exploration in the United Kingdom. (The Guardian)

• A district in the ancient town of Dukezong in Shangri-La County, Yunnan, China, burns down. (ABC News)

• A chemical leak in West Virginia morphs into a crisis after the contamination of a portion of the state's water supply. (CNN)
• Cyclone Ian strikes Tonga with damage to buildings reported. (Fox News)

• United States Attorney General Eric Holder says that same-sex marriages conducted in Utah are recognized as legal under federal law. The state of Utah however, does not recognize the marriages under state laws. (The Washington Post)
• The United States Air Force expands an illegal drugs investigation involving 10 officers in six military bases in the United States and the United Kingdom. (Reuters)
• A ten-year-old servant girl is tortured to death in Punjab raising concerns about human rights in Pakistan. (BBC News)
• About 110,000 people march peacefully through Bilbao, demanding Basque independence and freedom for more than 600 ETA prisoners. (BBC News) (Reuters)

• Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dies at the age of 85 after spending eight years in a coma following a stroke. (BBC News) (ABC NEWS) (International Business Times)
• India says that it has "no stand-off" with the United States even after the Devyani Khobragade incident. (BBC News)
• French President François Hollande is under pressure after photos of him and actress Julie Gayet appear in a magazine. (BBC News)

• X-ray astronomers find evidence of a black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy gobbling up a star; this is the first such event ever filmed. (Astronomy)

• British footballer Ian Redford is found dead in the woods of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. (The Independent)
• 2014 Winter Olympics
  • The United States State Department issues a warning to those going to the host city of Sochi, informing that local medical facilities are "untested" and that there are threats of terrorist activity. (The Hollywood Reporter)