- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- China's biggest state-owned chemical company ChemChina acquires a 26% stake in Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli with an additional offer to buy the remaining outstanding shares. (AP)
- Law and crime
- The South Gauteng High Court sitting in Palm Ridge, Katlehong, finds former doubles tennis champion Bob Hewitt guilty of two counts of rape and one of sexual assault of three former students that he coached in South Africa. (News 24)
- After having played with the New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings during a standout 14-year NFL career, former player Darren Sharper pleads guilty in a Maricopa County courtroom to raping two women after spiking their drinks at a Tempe, Arizona, apartment in November 2013, and the court sentences him to nine years in prison. Specifically, he pleads guilty to one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted sexual assault. Sharper's guilty plea is entered by telephone conference call from Los Angeles, California, where the former five-time Pro Bowl safety is being held on separate charges of drugging four women and raping two of them in West Hollywood. Sharper, who had helped the New Orleans Saints win the 2010 Super Bowl, was indicted in December on charges of sexually assaulting two women at his New Orleans, Louisiana apartment in September 2013. Last week, he was charged in Nevada with sexually assaulting two women. Under the terms of his Arizona plea deal, Sharper will serve his time in a federal prison. (Reuters)
- Politics and elections
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