• Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)
  • The People's Republic of China evacuates its citizens from Yemen due to concerns over declining security. (AP)
  • 2015 military intervention in Yemen
    • Saudi-led airstrikes hit a refugee camp near a military installation in the northern Harad District killing 21 people. Houthi militants make gains in Hadi's last bastion, Aden. (Reuters)

• Creditors offer Puerto Rico's highly leveraged power authority $2 billion in new financing, including $1.2 billion for a new natural gas operation, in exchange for assurances that it will repay its debt. (Reuters)
• American company UnitedHealth Group will buy American pharmacy benefit firm Catamaran Corporation for $12.8 billion. (Reuters)

• South African comedian Trevor Noah will succeed Jon Stewart as host of the television program The Daily Show on the Comedy Central network. (The New York Times)

• A 7.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Papua New Guinea prompts a tsunami warning for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. (AP)
• A van crash on U.S. Route 27 in Florida near the town of Moore Haven results in 8 deaths and 10 injuries. (NBC News)

• The Jerusalem District Court finds former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert guilty of accepting cash from an American businessman for personal use. (Ynet News)
• In Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, base perimeter guards shoot and kill one person and injure another person as two men attempt to crash the entrance gate with their vehicle. The incident also injures a guard. The base is the headquarters for the National Security Agency. (BBC)

• United Kingdom general election, 2015
  • Queen Elizabeth II dissolves Parliament and calls a general election for May 7. (Reuters)
• Nigerian general election, 2015
  • Challenger Muhammadu Buhari leads by two million votes with three-quarters of the states having their votes counted but votes from some of President Goodluck Jonathan's strongest states in the Niger Delta have yet to be counted. (Reuters)