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- The Swedish Mint (Swedish: Myntverket) in Eskilstuna, Sweden, loses the competition to produce Swedish national coins to Rahapaja OY of Finland, ending a more than 1000-year-long tradition of minting Swedish coins in Sweden. (Dagens Nyheter)
- Automaker Chrysler announces plans for cutting an additional 12,000 jobs worldwide as part of a major restructuring plan. (AP via CNN)
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges over 360 points, or 2.6%, in its worst daily loss since February 27. Similar percentage losses occurred in Europe earlier in the day. (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
- 2007 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Noel strengthens into a Category 1 hurricane and heads towards Bermuda having killed at least 108 people so far. (Reuters)
- Benazir Bhutto leaves Karachi for United Arab Emirates amidst speculations that President Pervez Musharraf might impose martial law in Pakistan. (Dailyindia.com/ANI)
- 2007 Tabasco flood: Massive flooding hits the Mexican state of Tabasco, with Governor Andrés Granier estimating that 80% of its 25,000 km² surface area is underwater. (BBC) (El Universal)
- The London Metropolitan Police is found guilty of violations of Health and Safety law over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on the London underground in July 2005, and is fined £175,000 and ordered to pay £385,000 in legal costs. (Sky News) (BBC)
- Flash floods in central Vietnam kill at least 13 people and injure 31 with 14,000 homes submerged in Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Quang Nam provinces. (Reuters)
- A suicide bomber attacks a bus carrying Pakistan Air Force personnel in Punjab resulting in at least five deaths and 40 people being injured. (AP via NYT)
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- The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong drops over 1,500 points, or 5%, three days after a previous sizable decline. The Hang Seng registers its largest daily loss since September 2001. (Bloomberg)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Italian police arrest Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo, his son Sandro and two other mafiosi in Carini, Palermo. (BBC)
- A fire at a retirement home in a village near Tula, Russia, kills at least 23 people. (BBC)
- The Writers Guild of America asks 12,000 of its members to join a Hollywood screenwriters strike over a dispute over residuals. (BBC)
- Álvaro Colom is elected President of Guatemala in the 2007 general election. (Reuters)
- Google and the Open Handset Alliance announce the Android mobile phone platform, a joint effort in handheld computing. (Ars Technica) (CNN)
- The number of people in southern Mexico displaced by the 2007 Tabasco flood nears a million (VOA), with 300,000 more still trapped in their homes, waiting to be rescued. (BBC)
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- 80,000 students march in Caracas, Venezuela, to protest against a constitutional referendum that would give more power to President Hugo Chávez. Nine students are injured by gunmen at the Central University of Venezuela. (NYT)
- In Belgium, government formation discussions have gone on for a record 150 days as Flemish and Walloon politicians clash over Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde. (Economist)
- Astronomers in the United Sates have found a fifth planet in orbit around the star 55 Cancri 41 light years from Earth. (BBC)
- Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, ending STS-120, a 15-day mission to the International Space Station. (Spaceflightnow.com)
- A fire in Gwalior, India, ruins over 400 small stores. Losses are estimated at 10 million rupees (USD 250,000).citation needed
- Taliban militants capture the Pakistani town of Madyan in Waziristan's Swat region and hoist their flags over buildings.citation needed
- Four Albanian militants are killed in a Macedonian police operation. (Wikinews)
- 2007 Georgian demonstrations: Georgian riot police use tear gas, water and sonic[1][2] cannons to break up thousands of anti-government protesters calling for the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili in Tbilisi. (Aljazeera) The President announces a 15-day nationwide state of emergency. (AP via CNN)
- At least eight people are killed and several injured in a school shooting in Tuusula (Tusby), north of Helsinki, Finland. (BBC)
- The U.S. dollar stumbles to new lows after Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, calls for China to shift more of its $1.43 trillion of currency reserves into "stronger currencies", such as the euro. (MarketWatch)
- Brad Wall is elected as Premier of Saskatchewan as his Saskatchewan Party defeats the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party by a 37-21 margin in the 26th Saskatchewan general election. (CBC)
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- Prince William, an officer in the Blues and Royals, laid a wreath for the first time by the Cenotaph as the Queen, his grandmother, and his father, the Prince of Wales, looked on. (AP)
- A majority of French citizens would support a union with the French-speaking Belgian region of Wallonia if Belgium were to cease to exist, according to a survey. (Journal du Dimanche)
- A similar survey held in the Netherlands shows that 45% of the Dutch would support a union with Flanders, whereas 49% would oppose such a union. (Trouw)
- Danilo Türk wins the 2007 Slovenian presidential elections with a large margin. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
- Former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister, Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith are arrested in Phnom Penh to face charges before that country's U.N. genocide tribunal. (AP via FOX News)
- The Ulster Defence Association announces that its Ulster Freedom Fighters' units are to stand down from midnight. (RTÉ)
- Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year old supporter of the sports club S.S. Lazio is killed by police in a service station near Arezzo, Italy. Football fans later clash with police in most Italian stadiums. (BBC)
- Transport for London takes over the North London Line and the other suburban rail lines hitherto operated by Silverlink to form the London Overground. While remaining part of the National Rail network, the contracting authority for the franchise is Transport for London, rather than central Government.
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- Didymus Mutasa, the Minister of Lands and Security of Zimbabwe, admits in a court in Paris, France, that the Mugabe government stole land from ten citizens of the Netherlands. If the government does not voluntarily compensate the citizens then they have the right to seize property owned by the Zimbabwean government of equal value. (VOA)
- The Milan Court of Appeal sentences Giovanni Consorte, Ivano Sacchetti and Emilio Gnutti to six months in jail for insider trading in the Unipol case. (Rainews24)
- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki reappoints Samuel Kivuitu as the head of Kenya's Electoral Commission ahead of the 2007 general election. (BBC)
- Georgian opposition parties choose Levan Gachechiladze as their common candidate to challenge President Mikhail Saakashvili in the 2008 presidential election. (BBC)
- IBM announces it will buy business intelligence firm Cognos for US$5 billion. (BBC)
- A 16-year-old Spanish anti-racism activist is killed during a far-right anti-immigration protest in Madrid. (BBC)
- The trial of Yvan Colonna, a Corsican separatist accused of murdering former Prefect of Corse-du-Sud Claude Erignac in 1998, opens in Paris. (BBC)
- Airbus and Boeing both win a giant order of 100 planes from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, a United Arab Emirates jet leasing corporation.htry5rytfyrt (BBC)
- A new government headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, India's main opposition party, takes office in the state of Karnataka. (BBC)
- Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase agree to a US$75 billion plan designed to heal the credit markets. (BBC)
- War in Afghanistan: The United States Army kills 15 insurgents and three civilians in the Helmand Province. (BBC)
- Nigeria's State Security Service arrests a group of Islamic militants with suspected links to al-Qaeda. (BBC)
- Thousands of Fatah supporters gather in Gaza to mark the third anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death. Hamas security forces kill seven people and wound several. (BBC)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Russian troops kill eight suspected militants in Makhachkala, Dagestan. (BBC)
- Ceferino Namuncurá is the first indigenous Argentinian to be beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. 100,000 people attend the ceremony in Chimpay. (BBC)
- Four ships sink during a powerful storm in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea. 2,000 tonnes of fuel oil are spilled into the Strait of Kerch. Three sailors die and eight are missing. (BBC)
- Intel announces that it is using a hafnium compound instead of silicon dioxide to insulate transistors in its newly introduced Penryn microprocessor, eliminating power leakage through the gate (but not through the channel). (WSJ)
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- The fossil of a new prehistoric great ape species, named Nakalipithecus nakayamai, is discovered in Kenya. (BBC)
- Turkish helicopters bomb several Kurdistan Workers Party positions in northern Iraq. (BBC)
- 21 Cameroonian soldiers are killed by unknown attackers in the Bakassi peninsula. (BBC)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin said that an overwhelming victory for United Russia in the legislative elections would give him the "moral right" to maintain a strong influence in the country. (The Moscow Times)
- In France, rail workers and Paris Métro personnel go on strike in the first wave of public-sector strikes. (Reuters)
- An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing three people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding 10. (BBC)
- Clean-up operations continue in the Strait of Kerch after the oil spill disaster. Ten ships have sunk, 2,000 tons of fuel oil and 6,000 tons of sulphur have been spilled, three sailors have died and about 20 are missing. (BBC)
- Hamas security forces arrest 400 Fatah supporters after a rally to commemorate Yasser Arafat's death ended in gunfire. (BBC)
- The President of Israel, Shimon Peres, meets the President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, in Ankara, and he will also address the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. (BBC)
- Danish voters go to the polls for an early parliamentary election called by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (BBC)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency: Backed by hundreds of police officers, the Pakistani government again placed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto under house arrest to prevent a protest against President Pervez Musharraf. (NYT) (BBC)
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- Strikes in France:
- The 2007 National Book Awards go to Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke), fiction, Tim Weiner (Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA), non-fiction, Sherman Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian), young people's literature, and Robert Hass (Time and Materials), poetry. (Reuters)
- German train drivers start a 62-hour train strike against Deutsche Bahn, asking for a 31% pay increase. (BBC)
- The European Parliament far right bloc, Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty, collapses after five
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