Template:In the news
- The Japan Atomic Energy Agency raises the severity of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents to level 7, the highest on the International Nuclear Event Scale and equivalent to the Chernobyl disaster.
- Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo (pictured) is arrested after a months-long standoff with Alassane Ouattara.
- Iceland rejects a plan to repay the British and Dutch governments over guarantee savings over Icesave's failure.
- In golf, South African Charl Schwartzel wins the Masters Tournament.
- American film director Sidney Lumet dies at the age of 86.
- A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, killing himself and six others.
- At least 27 people are killed in anti-government protests in the Syrian city of Daraa.
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