Template:In the news
- Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina (pictured) is elected as Pope Francis, becoming the first Latin American pope of the Catholic Church.
- JOGMEC announces the first successful extraction of methane hydrate from seabed deposits.
- Syrian rebels capture ar-Raqqah, making it the first major city to come under rebel control during the Syrian civil war.
- A newly discovered Y-chromosome haplogroup is thought to push back the time of Y-chromosomal Adam to 338,000 years ago.
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dies at the age of 58.
- A standoff in Lahad Datu between the Malaysian Armed Forces and a group claiming to represent the Sultanate of Sulu escalates into a military conflict in eastern Sabah.
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