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Daylight saving time goes into effect across the United States (except Arizona and Hawaii) and Canada American film Oz the Great and Powerfu lbrings in $80.3 million in the US during its opening weekend Six teenagers are killed and two other people are injured in a car accident near Warren, Ohio. The BurmeseNational League for Democracy reelects Aung San Suu Kyi as its leader. The European Unionbans the sale of cosmetics developed through animal testing A military plane crashes about 50 miles west of Spokane, Washington, killing three Navy members. Over 9,000 dead pigs found rotting in the Huangpu River that supplies Shanghaiwith drinking water

North Koreabreaks the 1953 armisticewith South Korea and cuts the phone line between the twocountries, after United States and South Korea have begun military drills. Warns that the next step willbe an act of "merciless" military retaliation

13 people are shot and injured during a drive-by shooting in Washington, D.C.,United State The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissionaccuses the state of Illinois of securities fraud NY state judge invalidates a New York City ban on the sale of soft drinkslarger than 16 ounces Google agrees to pay $7 million to settle a privacy lawsuit over the handling of wireless data. A study finds a correlationbetween insufficient sleep and weightgain. A twin-engine plane crashesin the Brazilian state of Par, killing all nine passengers and the pilot. A shooting spreeleaves four dead and two wounded in Herkimer County, New York. Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope

Francis. Tells a journalist he wants "a poor Church, for the poor" The National People's Congress names General Secretary Xi Jinping as the new President of

the People's Republic of China

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider express confidence that particle discovered in July 2012 isa Higgs boson

At least 16 people are killed in a fireworks accidentin Mexico At least 24 people die when a double decker bus veersoffan overpassin South Africa Three people die after a twin-engine plane crashesinto a parking lot in Florida North Korea launches short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan. Scientists working on the Lazarus Projectannounce that they have rejuvenated cells from extinct frog Cyprusis having a financial crisis but they keep rejecting EU bailout packages US helicoptercrashesin southern Afghanistan The United States scraps the final stage of its European missile shieldbut is putting $1mil into nations

ability to defend West Coastfrom N. Korean missiles

In figure skating, Kim Yu-Naof South Korea wins the Ladies Championship Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker ArchitecturePrize Two members of the Steubenville High School football team have been found guilty of raping a

sixteen-year-old girl in the U.S. town of Steubenville, Ohio.

New data suggests that the Mariana (not marinara)Trench, the deepest part of the World Ocean, ishome to a large amount of bacterial life forms.

A car bombing in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, kills at least 10 people and injures 20 others. A series of explosionskill at least 25 people in a bus park in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Seven U.S. Marines are killedand seven others are injured when a mortar explodesduring a training

exercise in Nevada

Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton officially announces her supportfor same-sex marriage

US President Barack Obama nominates Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez to be the next UnitedStates Secretary of Labor.