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- The Nigerian Army kills 14 suspected Boko Haram members in a raid on a building, with the death of one soldier and the capture of a potential suicide bomber in a car full of explosives in the northern city of Kano.
- Five children die in a house fire in the town of Saint-Quentin in northern France.
- Widespread flooding in Port Louis, Mauritius leads to at least 11 deaths.
- Easter Day
- The Eiffel Tower was evacuated for a time after an anonymous caller made a bomb threat. No explosives were found though police are still searching for the caller.
- Scientists announce that a green meteorite found in Morocco may have originated on Mercury, which, if proven, would be the first known meteorite from that planet.
- A blast near the United States Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills 10 people and wounds at least 31 others.
- Coordinated car bombings against five Shiite mosques in Baghdad and Kirkuk kill 23 worshipers.
- At least twenty people are killed and around 25 more are trapped when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- A large landslide buries 83 gold miners in China's Tibetan Autonomous Region near Lhasa.
- More than 220 people are rescued from two ice floes that broke off of Latvia and were blown into the Gulf of Riga
- Several people are injured in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, when Buddhist monks lead hundreds of people to attack a Muslim owned clothing warehouse
- Good Friday
- A battle for an airstrip in Pibor County kills 143 rebels and 20 government troops. The rebels reportedly belong to a group led by David Yau Yau.
- Syrian Civil War: Mortar fire hits Damascus University cafeteria section killing 15 students and injuring 7 others.
- At least 100 people are left homeless after a fire razes 40 houses in Samal, Davao del Norte, Philippines.
- The Government of Mali announces that 63 of their soldiers have been killed fighting jihadists since the French led intervention Operation Serval in January 2013.
- A row between a spam-fighting group and the hosting firm CyberBunker sparks retaliatory attacks, flooding core infrastructure of the Internet, in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack in history.
- Wildlife officials in Cameroon find over 40 elephant carcasses, clustered in Nki and Lobeke national parks, with a horseback-riding band of about 300 poachers from Sudan being the chief suspects
- A mini-tornado in the Philippines kills 12 people when a motorboat capsized.
- After declaring himself President of the Central African Republic, Seleka chief Michel Djotodia says that he has suspended the constitution of the country and dissolved its parliament.
- A plague of locust descends upon Madagascar, threatening crops and other vegetation across roughly 50% of the country.
- Thousands of homes in Scotland and Northern Ireland are without electricity and many roads are closed after snowfall and strong winds hit over the weekend.
- Six sleeping workers are killed by a fire in a car seat factory outside Bangalore, India.
- Around 1,000 dead ducks are pulled from Sichuan River in southwest China, sparking health and environmental concerns among residents. As well, more than 16,000 dead pigs have been pulled from Shanghai's Huangpu River over the past two weeks.
- South Korea signs a new military plan with the United States to counter a possible incursion or a limited attack from North Korea.
- The bodies of seven men, all shot in the head as if executed, are found dumped in plastic chairs placed along the side of a street in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico.
- A suicide bomber strikes a Pakistani military checkpoint in the tribal district of North Waziristan, killing at least 17 soldiers.
- 25 people are killed in coordinated attacks by unidentified men armed with machine guns, bombs and rocket-propelled grenades in Northern Nigeria Adamawa State.
- At least 20 people are killed and more than 200 injured when a powerful tornado rips through the southeastern district of Brahmanbaria in Bangladesh
- The death toll from a fire in a Thai refugee camp for Karen refugees from Myanmar rises to at least 45 with more than a hundred injured.
- 23 people are killed and 30 injured in a road accident in Pakistan's Punjab province.
- Brazilian police charge 16 people in connection with the Kiss nightclub fire last January including the owner of the club which killed 241 people and injured 168.
- The People's Republic of China levies anti-dumping charges on the chemical resorcinol imported from the United States and Japan.
- Heavy snowfall causes widespread disruption to many parts of the United Kingdom, while torrential rain brings floods to South West England.
- At least 30 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae,Thailand.
- 2013 Mystery Meat: Britain's Food Standards Agency says that 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary and labelled as beef has been discovered in Lancashire
- A state of emergency is imposed in the Burmese town of Meiktila after at least twenty people are killed in communal violence.
- Two new species of lizards are discovered in the Andes Mountains in Peru.
- A car bombing at the Jalozai refugee camp near the Pakistani city of Peshawar kills at least 12 people and wounds up to 30 others.
- Syrian War: At least 42 people are killed and 84 injured after a reported suicide bombing at a Damascus mosque.
- At least 45 people drown and 60 are missing after a boat carrying Nigerian migrants capsizes and sinks off shore from Libreville,Gabon.
- At least 24 people are killed and more than 100 injured in a tornado and hail storm in southern China.
- A dispute between a Muslim gold shop owner and Buddhist sellers escalates into communal violence that leaves 10 people dead, 20 injured, and 4 mosques burnt to the ground in Myanmar.
- Seven people are shot and wounded at a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
- Several BBC Twitter accounts are hacked including its Weather, Arabic and Radio Ulster feeds by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army.
- The European Space Agency releases the Planck space observatory's first all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background, the most accurate ever created. It determines that the Universe is older than expected, at 13.82 billion years old.
March 20, 2013
- South Korea is suspected to be the target of recent cyber-attacks as major TV stations and bank's computer system's infrastructures, experience disruptions followed by shutdown. Recent reports indicate that the systems were brought down by a computer virus.
March 19, 2013
- A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
- A bus crash in the Indian state of Maharashtra kills at least 37 people and injures 14 others.
- At least 16 people are dead after landslides in a mountainous area north of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
- Hundreds of thousands of people attend the papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis in Rome's Saint Peter's Square.
March 18, 2013
- A car bombing in the center of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, kills at least 10 people and injures 20 others.
- A series of explosions kill at least 25 people in a bus park in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
- North Korea threatens Japan with a preemptive nuclear strike.
March 17, 2013
- A car bombing near a bus station in Garmat Ali near the Iraqi city of Basra kills at least 10 people.
March 16, 2013
- The United States scraps the final stage of its European missile shield. It's also willing to spend $1 billion to deploy additional ground-based missile interceptors on the West Coast as part of efforts to enhance the nation's ability to defend itself from attack by North Korea.
- Seven people are shot and wounded at a family gathering in an apparent gang-related drive-by shooting in California, United States.
- Soyuz TMA-06M: Three astronauts return safely to Earth from the International Space Station aboard a Russian capsule.
March 15, 2013
- At least 24 people die when a double decker bus veers off the Hex River Pass near Cape Town, South Africa.
- At least 16 people are killed in a fireworks accident in Jesus Tepactepec, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
- North Korea launches short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan.
- A string of coordinated car bombs and suicide bombers strike central Baghdad, followed by a militant attack on the Justice Ministry building. At least 25 people are killed, including 7 police officers and 3 militants, along with 50 wounded.
- Gunmen storm a bar in Cancún, Mexico, and kill 7 people, also 4 others were wounded in the attack.
- A suicide bomber kills 10 spectators, including the district police chief, during a local gaming event in Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan.
- The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time in its history.
- A twin-engine Embraer 821 plane crashes in the Brazilian state of Pará, killing all nine passengers and the pilot
- Hundreds of heavily armed Australian police raid motorcycle gangs in Sydney and its suburbs and seize explosives, guns, drugs and cash and arrest high-ranking members.
- Seven men are executed for theft in Saudi Arabia after their appeals for clemency are denied.
- Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis. He is the first pope of the Catholic Church from Latin America and the first Jesuit pope.
- Syrian Civil War: Syrian Army forces, kill 30 army deserters in an ambush on the Damascus Airport road.
- Frankfurt Airport is closed and Eurostar trains are suspended due to unseasonably heavy snowfall in Western Europe.
- A study finds a correlation between insufficient sleep and weight gain.
- Armenian presidential election runner-up Raffi Hovannisian goes on hunger strike after three weeks of mass rallies against the election results.
March 11, 2013
- The European Union bans the sale of cosmetics developed through animal testing.
- Three minor earthquakes strike Southern California, United States.
- More than 9,000 dead pigs are found rotting in the Huangpu River that supplies Shanghai, China, with drinking water.
- Five species of shark and two species of manta ray receive international protection as part of CITES.
- North Korea breaks the 1953 armistice with South Korea and cuts the phone line between the two countries, after United States and South Korea have begun military drills. North Korean officials say that the army is ready to attack at any given order.
- 13 people are shot and injured during a drive-by shooting in Washington, D.C., United States.
- A group of astrobiologists including Chandra Wickramasinghe say that algae-like structures inside a Polonnaruwa meteorite, that fell on December 29, 2012, in Sri Lanka, are clear evidence of panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout the Universe.
March 10, 2013
- Daylight saving time goes into effect across the United States and Canada.
- Nigerian militants belonging to Ansar al-Muslimeen claim responsibility to kidnapping and killing Italian, Greek, and British construction workers in Northern Nigeria.
March 9, 2013
- Rebels free 21 United Nations peacekeepers who were held captive for four days.
- At least 19 people are killed by two suicide bombings in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and in Khost Province, as Chuck Hagel, the United States Secretary of Defense, visits the city.
- Nigerian militant group Ansaru announces that it has killed seven foreigners that were being held hostage.
- Three time "Best Restaurant in the World" winner Noma is accused of giving 63 customers food poisoning.
- An Egyptian court reaffirms the death sentence for 21 football fans for their role in the 2012 Port Said Stadium riot and sentenced two security officers to 15 years in jail for negligence
- Google will pay a $7 million penalty to settle an investigation into the collection of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over wireless networks from 2007–2010 in the United States. Google company cars taking street-level photos for its online mapping service also had been vacuuming up personal data transmitted over wireless networks that weren't protected by passwords.
March 8, 2013
- The Greek-owned oil tanker MT Smyrni is released along with its 26 crew members for a reported ransom of $9.5 million after being held hostage for 10 months.
- Tropical Cyclone Sandra forms in the Coral Sea off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland.
- North Korea ends all peace pacts with South Korea and closes the main Panmunjom border crossing inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone. North Korean generals affirm they're aiming their long range missiles at the U.S. mainland in retaliation for the recently approved U.N. sanctions
- Russian scientists announce they have found a wholly new type of bacteria in the mysterious subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica.
March 7, 2013
- The death toll rises to at least 60 persons in the conflict between the Sultanate of Sulu and Malaysian Armed Forces.
March 6, 2013
- All nine people, including two pilots and seven passengers, on board a Beechcraft Super King Air B200 airplane chartered by Peruvian mining company die after the plane became ensnared in power lines and crashed to the ground in the La Libertad Region, Peru.
- A newly discovered Y-chromosome haplogroup is thought to push back the time of Y-chromosomal Adam to 338,000 years ago.
March 5, 2013
- Gunmen kill eight people in an attack on a police station and a bank in northeastern Nigeria.
- North Korea announces plans to nullify the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War.
- An American political candidate "was dragged and set on fire" during his murder in the U.S. state of Mississippi, say his family. The corpse of Marco McMillian was found bruised and burned near a levee on the Mississippi River
- Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, dies in office at the age of 58 in the capital, Caracas. A presidential election is to be held within 30 days.
March 4, 2013
- At least 40 Syrian soldiers are killed in ambush in Western Iraq.
- At least 11 children are killed after a school bus collides with a truck in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab
- At least 9 people die after heavy snowfall hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido over the weekend.
- At least 17 people are killed in the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, and surrounding areas.
- More than 100 Roman Catholic cardinals meet in Rome to start the process of selecting a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.
March 3, 2013
- Fighting erupts in Sabah, Malaysia, leaving seven dead, including five policemen. Four people are taken hostage. In response, the Malaysian Military doubles their troop presence in the area
- At least 16 people die in clashes in Bangladesh as a strike organized by Jamaat-e-Islami begins.
- A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people in a predominately Shia Muslim area.
- Thailand promises to put an end to legal ivory trade within the country.
March 2, 2013
- The death toll in Bangladesh rises to at least 50 as protests continue following the sentencing of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi.
- A massive car crash on I-65 in Kentucky, United States, leaves 6 people dead and 2 injured.
- A study concludes that continuous standing and walking reduces the risk of type II diabetes better than either sitting/lying or exercise.
- The 1,000 mile 2013 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race begins in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The winner of the race will get a new truck and $50,400.
March 1, 2013
- At least 14 people die in Malaysia's Sabah province when rebels open fire on government security forces.
- One of Islamist organization al-Qaeda's most feared commanders in Africa, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, is killed by Chadian forces in Northern Mali.
- A study concludes that clogged arteries around the heart are a risk factor for brain injury from stroke.
- An environmental study finds that 100 million sharks are killed by fishermen each year.
- SpaceX CRS-2: The SpaceX Falcon 9 supply rocket launches from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 as scheduled, but encounters problems once in orbit