• Gunmen in Kabul, Afghanistan kill Swedish Radio foreign correspondent Nils Horner. (Washington Post)
• Maoist rebels ambush an Indian paramilitary force in Chhattisgarh, India, killing 18 soldiers. (AP via Time)
• In response to mortar fire, an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip kills three suspected militants. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
• Protesters clash with police in Turkey after a 15-year-old boy died from a head injury sustained during anti-government protests. (The Guardian) (Reuters)

• New Zealand says it plans to hold a referendum regarding the change of its national flag. (The Guardian)
• Bronze weapons found near China's Terracotta Army are determined to have once belonged to the soldiers. (Live Science)

• Colorado says it has collected $2 million in taxes from marijuana sales in the month of January. (The Washington Post)
• Men's Wearhouse buys rival JoS. A. Bank Clothiers for $1.8 billion. (Reuters)

• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea:
  • Two Philippine ships are expelled by the Chinese Coast Guard from Ayungin Shoal in the Spratly group of islands. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

• The search of one of Congress's stand-alone computers is referred to the Justice Department for investigation. (AP via USA Today)
• Fourteen Caribbean nations file a lawsuit against the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands for damages caused during the Atlantic slave trade. (Time)
• Joran van der Sloot faces an extradition case in the United States. (People)

• The Libyan Parliament sacks Prime Minister Ali Zeidan and appoints former defense secretary Abdullah al-Thani as acting prime minister. (Reuters)
• Politics of Israel
  • Shas endorses Isaac Herzog from the Israeli Labor Party as the country's next prime minister. (Times of Israel)
  • A new electoral law that raises the threshold of votes political parties need in elections to gain representation in the Knesset from 2 to 3.25% is passed unanimously as the entire opposition boycotts the vote. (Al Jazeera)