- Darfur Conflict:
 Chad's President Idriss Déby and  Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir meet in  Senegal to sign the Dakar Agreement, the sixth peace agreement in five years. (BBC News)
- The Canadian House of Commons extends the Canadian military mission in
 Afghanistan until 2011. (CBC)
- The body of Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul who was kidnapped in
 Iraq on February 29, is found in a shallow grave close to the city. (Reuters)
- The price of gold reaches $1000 per troy ounce for the first time. (BBC News)
 Serbian President Boris Tadić disbands parliament and calls an early general election for May 11. (BBC News)
- Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008: Geraldine Ferraro resigns from the Clinton campaign after making comments that "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position." (The New York Times)
- The U.S. dollar, after repeatedly testing 100 yen in Asian dealings and early European action, breaks through to touch 99.75, its lowest level since November 1995. (Reuters)
- Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart experience some of their warmest weather of record for this season as result of an
 Australian autumn heatwave. (The Age)
- Leaders of the
 European Union meet in Brussels,  Belgium with climate change and energy security dominating the agenda. (BBC News)
- Turkish prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya asks the Constitutional Court of Turkey to ban the ruling Justice and Development Party for anti-secular activities. (BBC News)
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