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Current events of March 5, 2015 (2015-03-05) (Thursday)

A knife-wielding assailant injures American ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, in the South Korean capital city of Seoul. Authorities report that the injuries on his face and wrist are not life-threatening. (Yonhap News) (BBC)
Iraqi insurgency (2011–present)
- Separate attacks in Baghdad kill at least eight people. (AP)

The Indian government censors the documentary India's Daughter depicting a December 2012 gang rape and murder due to perceived incitement to violence that the outrage about the film might cause. Nevertheless, the BBC telecasts the film. (Daily Mail) (The Times of India)
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the inclusion of elephants in their performances by 2018. (AP)

The U.S. Supreme Court schedules oral arguments for hearing cases regarding the bans by states of gay marriage on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. (MSN)
Jodi Arias escapes the death penalty, because of a second hung jury in the penal phase, and will later be sentenced by the judge to life without parole or life with the possibility of parole after 25 years, with credit for time served, for the murder of ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander. (MSN, via Reuters)
The manufacturer of a medical instrument for endoscopic procedures, Olympus Corp, lacked FDA clearance when it caused an outbreak of infections, including two deaths, from an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria, "superbug" Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center between October 2014 and January 2015 (see February 19). (AP)
A Phoenix, Arizona jury deadlocks in a second trial allowing convicted murderer Jodi Arias to be spared the death penalty. She will be sent to prison for life for killing her lover in 2008. (AP)