Template:In the news
- A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people.
- British biochemist and two-time Nobel Prize winner Frederick Sanger (pictured) dies at the age of 95.
- NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
- Fifty people are killed when a Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Kazan, Russia.
- Abdulla Yameen is elected president of the Maldives.
- Sachin Tendulkar retires from all forms of cricket.
- The prime ministers of Canada, India and Mauritius boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, over allegations of war crimes and human rights abuses.
- A herd of 40 elephants is struck by a passenger train in Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary, India.
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