March 1, 2012,
March 1, 2012, Unemployment in the Euro zone rises to 10.7 per cent, the highest level in its history. (Reuters)
March 1, 2012, The stricken liner Costa Allegra arrives at the Seychelles after losing power three days ago due to an engine room fire. (BBC)
March 1, 2012, European Union summit:European Union leaders meet to discuss Europe's economic problems and to reappoint Herman Van Rompuy as the President of the European Council. (Reuters via the Sydney Morning Herald)
March 1, 2012, T.J. Lane, perpetrator of the Chardon High School shooting, is charged with 3 counts of aggravated murder. (CNN)
March 1, 2012, Martin O'Malley, the Governor of the US state of Maryland, signs a law legalizing gay marriage in that state. (Los Angeles Times)
March 1, 2012, New research concludes that the Earth's oceans may be growing more acidic at a faster rate than any time in the past 300 million years. (MSNBC)
March 2, 2012, Release of Lorax
March 2, 2012, Release of Project X
March 2, 2012, The US space agency NASA claims that it was hacked 13 times last year compromising security. (New York Times)
March 2, 2012, The Washington Post reports that a US military report into the accidental burning of Qurans at Bagram airfield in Afghanistan that led to widespread protests has found that five US service personnel were involved. (Washington Post)
March 2, 2012, 25 of the 27 members of the European Union sign a new "fiscal compact", the exceptions being the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic. (BBC)
March 2, 2012, Moody's Investor Services cuts Greece's credit rating to C claiming that there is a still a significant risk of default despite the Eurozone bailout. (BBC)
March 2, 2012, Anglican Church officials in Christchurch, New Zealand, announce that the 131-year-old landmark ChristChurch Cathedral will need to be demolished, having suffered severe damage from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and its aftershocks. (The Press Christchurch)
March 2, 2012, US tornadoes Tornadoes hit the US states of Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee two days after the 2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak. (BBC)
March 2, 2012, In baseball, North American Major League Baseball expands its playoffs to ten teams. (ESPN)
March 2, 2012, In American football, the National Football League finds that the New Orlean Saints paid bounties for injuries on opposition players including Kurt Warner and Brett Favre. (AP via WVEC)
March 3, 2012,
March 3, 2012, The death toll from a tornado outbreak in the US reaches at least 36, with casualties reported in Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia and Ohio. (BBC)
March 3, 2012, The criminal case associated with the wreck of the Costa Concordia starts in Italy. (New York Times)
March 3, 2012, Republican voters in the US state of Washington go to the polls for caucuses, with Mitt Romney winning. (MSNBC)
March 4, 2012, The Cleveland Show S3 Ep :
March 4, 2012, A hunt is underway for a thief who stole the heart of Saint Laurence O'Toole at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. (The Guardian)
March 4, 2012, Voters in Russia go to the polls for a presidential election with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claiming victory despite allegations of voter fraud. (Radio Free Europe)
March 4, 2012, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland and Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, criticises government plans to allow Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom. (BBC)
March 5, 2012, The Lorax brings in US$70.7M during its opening weekend, the highest opener of 2012, and fifth highest total for an animated film ever. (CBS News)
March 5, 2012, South East Queensland is hit by severe weather with one person dead so far. (Courier Mail)
March 5, 2012, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama meet at the White House. (BBC)
March 5, 2012, Felipe Calderon, the President of Mexico, asks Joe Biden, the vice-President of the United States for assistance in stopping the flow of money and weapons into Mexico. (AP via The Guardian)
March 5, 2012, The United States files an application in New Zealand to extradite Kim Dotcom and three of his associates in MegaUpload to face charges of breaching copyright. (New Zealand Herald)
March 5, 2012, International observers from the OSCE find that the Russian presidential election was skewed in favour of Vladimir Putin. (AFP via The Australian)
March 5, 2012, The Apple App Store passes 25 billion downloads. (CNET)
March 6, 2012, A gunman kills the headmaster of the Episcopal School of Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, and then kills himself. (CNN)
March 6, 2012, Lehman Brothers emerges from bankruptcy protection. (BBC)
March 6, 2012, Approximately 9,000 residents of the Australian town of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, are evacuated as the Murrumbidgee River nears record levels threatening the town's levee. (Herald Sun)
March 6, 2012, Human Rights Watch claims that the Government of Japan has been too slow in providing health care to survivors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Alertnet)
March 6, 2012, Iran states that it will allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors access to its Parchin military complex. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
March 6, 2012, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces his plan to cut immigration to France by half. (BBC)
March 6, 2012, The European Commission is involved in controversy over a video promoting EU enlargement that is perceived as racist. (BBC)
March 6, 2012, Businessman Allen Stanford is convicted of running a US$7 billion Ponzi scheme. (New York Times)
March 6, 2012, Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission says that it will lodge criminal charges against Olympus Corporation as well as former advisers and executives over an accounting fraud. (Reuters)
March 6, 2012, Law enforcement agencies in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland arrest alleged senior members of the computer hacking group Lulz Sec, including a member of the FBI. (Fox News)
March 6, 2012, Cyrenaica, the eastern Libyan region, announces a bid for semi-autonomy. (Al Jazeera)
March 6, 2012, Voters in 10 US states go to the polls for Super Tuesday. (Washington Times)
March 7, 2012,
March 7, 2012,
March 7, 2012, The Australian town of Yenda, New South Wales, is flooded as floodwaters move through the Murray–Darling Basin. (Daily Telegraph)
March 7, 2012, The biggest solar flare in five years that occurred on March 6 nears Earth with the capacity to disrupt power grids, GPS systems and airline flights. (AP via USA Today)
March 7, 2012, Physicists from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory report data suggesting the elusive hypothesized Higgs boson ("God particle") may have been detected. (New York Times)
March 8, 2012, Police in Dublin remove the Occupy Dame Street camp during an overnight raid. (The Irish Times)
March 8, 2012, Greece secures a debt-restructuring deal with private lenders. (New York Times)
March 8, 2012, Spanx inventor Sara Blakely becomes the youngest self-made female billionaire on Forbes' list. (Forbes)
March 8, 2012, A gunman kills one person and injures seven others before himself being shot dead at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Western Psychiatric Institute; Clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (CNN)
March 8, 2012, Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Stephanie Lazarus is found guilty of a high profile 1986 murder. (NPR)
March 8, 2012, The first full map of the debris field of the remains of the RMS Titanic is announced. (Wall Street Journal)
March 1, 2012, Unemployment in the Euro zone rises to 10.7 per cent, the highest level in its history. (Reuters)
March 1, 2012, The stricken liner Costa Allegra arrives at the Seychelles after losing power three days ago due to an engine room fire. (BBC)
March 1, 2012, European Union summit:European Union leaders meet to discuss Europe's economic problems and to reappoint Herman Van Rompuy as the President of the European Council. (Reuters via the Sydney Morning Herald)
March 1, 2012, T.J. Lane, perpetrator of the Chardon High School shooting, is charged with 3 counts of aggravated murder. (CNN)
March 1, 2012, Martin O'Malley, the Governor of the US state of Maryland, signs a law legalizing gay marriage in that state. (Los Angeles Times)
March 1, 2012, New research concludes that the Earth's oceans may be growing more acidic at a faster rate than any time in the past 300 million years. (MSNBC)
March 2, 2012, Release of Lorax
March 2, 2012, Release of Project X
March 2, 2012, The US space agency NASA claims that it was hacked 13 times last year compromising security. (New York Times)
March 2, 2012, The Washington Post reports that a US military report into the accidental burning of Qurans at Bagram airfield in Afghanistan that led to widespread protests has found that five US service personnel were involved. (Washington Post)
March 2, 2012, 25 of the 27 members of the European Union sign a new "fiscal compact", the exceptions being the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic. (BBC)
March 2, 2012, Moody's Investor Services cuts Greece's credit rating to C claiming that there is a still a significant risk of default despite the Eurozone bailout. (BBC)
March 2, 2012, Anglican Church officials in Christchurch, New Zealand, announce that the 131-year-old landmark ChristChurch Cathedral will need to be demolished, having suffered severe damage from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and its aftershocks. (The Press Christchurch)
March 2, 2012, US tornadoes Tornadoes hit the US states of Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee two days after the 2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak. (BBC)
March 2, 2012, In baseball, North American Major League Baseball expands its playoffs to ten teams. (ESPN)
March 2, 2012, In American football, the National Football League finds that the New Orlean Saints paid bounties for injuries on opposition players including Kurt Warner and Brett Favre. (AP via WVEC)
March 3, 2012,
March 3, 2012, The death toll from a tornado outbreak in the US reaches at least 36, with casualties reported in Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia and Ohio. (BBC)
March 3, 2012, The criminal case associated with the wreck of the Costa Concordia starts in Italy. (New York Times)
March 3, 2012, Republican voters in the US state of Washington go to the polls for caucuses, with Mitt Romney winning. (MSNBC)
March 4, 2012, The Cleveland Show S3 Ep :
March 4, 2012, A hunt is underway for a thief who stole the heart of Saint Laurence O'Toole at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. (The Guardian)
March 4, 2012, Voters in Russia go to the polls for a presidential election with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claiming victory despite allegations of voter fraud. (Radio Free Europe)
March 4, 2012, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland and Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, criticises government plans to allow Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom. (BBC)
March 5, 2012, The Lorax brings in US$70.7M during its opening weekend, the highest opener of 2012, and fifth highest total for an animated film ever. (CBS News)
March 5, 2012, South East Queensland is hit by severe weather with one person dead so far. (Courier Mail)
March 5, 2012, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama meet at the White House. (BBC)
March 5, 2012, Felipe Calderon, the President of Mexico, asks Joe Biden, the vice-President of the United States for assistance in stopping the flow of money and weapons into Mexico. (AP via The Guardian)
March 5, 2012, The United States files an application in New Zealand to extradite Kim Dotcom and three of his associates in MegaUpload to face charges of breaching copyright. (New Zealand Herald)
March 5, 2012, International observers from the OSCE find that the Russian presidential election was skewed in favour of Vladimir Putin. (AFP via The Australian)
March 5, 2012, The Apple App Store passes 25 billion downloads. (CNET)
March 6, 2012, A gunman kills the headmaster of the Episcopal School of Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, and then kills himself. (CNN)
March 6, 2012, Lehman Brothers emerges from bankruptcy protection. (BBC)
March 6, 2012, Approximately 9,000 residents of the Australian town of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, are evacuated as the Murrumbidgee River nears record levels threatening the town's levee. (Herald Sun)
March 6, 2012, Human Rights Watch claims that the Government of Japan has been too slow in providing health care to survivors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Alertnet)
March 6, 2012, Iran states that it will allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors access to its Parchin military complex. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
March 6, 2012, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces his plan to cut immigration to France by half. (BBC)
March 6, 2012, The European Commission is involved in controversy over a video promoting EU enlargement that is perceived as racist. (BBC)
March 6, 2012, Businessman Allen Stanford is convicted of running a US$7 billion Ponzi scheme. (New York Times)
March 6, 2012, Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission says that it will lodge criminal charges against Olympus Corporation as well as former advisers and executives over an accounting fraud. (Reuters)
March 6, 2012, Law enforcement agencies in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland arrest alleged senior members of the computer hacking group Lulz Sec, including a member of the FBI. (Fox News)
March 6, 2012, Cyrenaica, the eastern Libyan region, announces a bid for semi-autonomy. (Al Jazeera)
March 6, 2012, Voters in 10 US states go to the polls for Super Tuesday. (Washington Times)
March 7, 2012,
March 7, 2012,
March 7, 2012, The Australian town of Yenda, New South Wales, is flooded as floodwaters move through the Murray–Darling Basin. (Daily Telegraph)
March 7, 2012, The biggest solar flare in five years that occurred on March 6 nears Earth with the capacity to disrupt power grids, GPS systems and airline flights. (AP via USA Today)
March 7, 2012, Physicists from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory report data suggesting the elusive hypothesized Higgs boson ("God particle") may have been detected. (New York Times)
March 8, 2012, Police in Dublin remove the Occupy Dame Street camp during an overnight raid. (The Irish Times)
March 8, 2012, Greece secures a debt-restructuring deal with private lenders. (New York Times)
March 8, 2012, Spanx inventor Sara Blakely becomes the youngest self-made female billionaire on Forbes' list. (Forbes)
March 8, 2012, A gunman kills one person and injures seven others before himself being shot dead at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Western Psychiatric Institute; Clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (CNN)
March 8, 2012, Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Stephanie Lazarus is found guilty of a high profile 1986 murder. (NPR)
March 8, 2012, The first full map of the debris field of the remains of the RMS Titanic is announced. (Wall Street Journal)
March 9, 2012, Release of John Carter
March 9, 2012, Release of Thousand Words
March 9, 2012, Release of Silent House
March 9, 2012, Release of Friends with Kids
March 9, 2012,
March 9, 2012, Officials announce the opening of Pottermore this coming April. (The Guardian)
March 10, 2012,
March 10, 2012,
March 10, 2012,
March 10, 2012,
March 10, 2012, Mitt Romney wins the Republican presidential caucuses in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. (Washington Post)
March 10, 2012, New protests erupt in Russia, after last week's election of Vladimir Putin as President for a third term. (BBC)
March 11, 2012,
March 13, 2012,
March 13, 2012, British police arrest six people on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice in relation to phone hacking in the media including Rebekah Brooks, a former top executive of News International. (AP via Washington Post)
March 13, 2012,
March 13, 2012, Encyclopaedia Britannica, the oldest encyclopedia still in print in the English language, announces that it will no longer be producing printed versions but continuing online editions. (Reuters via Yahoo 7 Australia)
March 13, 2012, Interviews Before Execution, a Chinese television talk show that interviews death row inmates shortly before they are executed, is reportedly cancelled as a result of a BBC documentary on the programme which has attracted international attention. (MSNBC)
March 13, 2012, The United States, Japan, and the European Union file a case against China at the WTO regarding export restrictions on rare earth metals. (BBC)
March 13, 2012, Most of the largest financial institutions in the United States pass a Federal Reserve System stress test although Citigroup, MetLife, Ally Financial and SunTrust do not. (Reuters)
March 13, 2012, Voters in the US states of Alabama and Mississippi head to the polls for primaries with Rick Santorum winning in both states. (CNN)
-Voters in the state of Hawaii and the territory of American Samoa go to the polls for caucuses with Mitt Romney winning both. (Fox News)
March 13, 2012, A research study conducted by Harvard Medical School shows that red meat increases the risk of death and has other negative health implications. (BBC)
March 13, 2012, In basketball, the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament gets underway with first round games in Dayton (NY Daily News)
March 14, 2012,
March 14, 2012,
March 14, 2012,
March 14, 2012, Leon Panetta, the United States Secretary of Defense, arrives in Afghanistan to attempt to placate anger over the Panjwai shooting spree. (CNN)
-The soldier allegedly responsible is removed from Afghanistan to Kuwait. (Voice of America)
March 14, 2012, The United Kingdom towns of Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph are awarded city status to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. (BBC)
March 14, 2012, Unemployment in the United Kingdom reaches 2.67 million, the most people since 1995. (Office for National Statistics)
March 14, 2012, A magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan causing a small tsunami that hits the coast of Aomori prefecture on the island of Hokkaido. (AFP via News Limited)
March 14, 2012, The President of the United States Barack Obama and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron meet at the White House in Washington D.C. to discuss Afghanistan, Syria, the global economy and Iran. (Voice of America)
March 14, 2012, An American jury finds Virginia Tech guilty of negligence for delaying a campus warning about the massacre of 33 students in 2007. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
March 15, 2012,
March 15, 2012,
March 15, 2012,
March 15, 2012, 2012 insurgency in northern Mali: 195,000 people flee their homes amid violence in northern Mali between government troops and Tuareg rebels. (IOL)
March 15, 2012, 2011-2012 Syrian uprising: Turkish intelligence reports claim that approximately 20,000 Syrian soldiers have deserted from the government forces in less than a month. (Bloomberg)
March 15, 2012, A free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea comes into effect. (Yonhap)
March 15, 2012, Former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich arrives at a US federal prison in Colorado to begin a 14 year sentence on corruption charges. (Reuters)
March 16, 2012, Release of 21Jump Street
March 16, 2012, Release of Casa de mi Padre
March 16, 2012, Release of Detachment
March 16, 2012, Release of Jeff who lives at Home
March 16, 2012,
March 16, 2012,
March 16, 2012, 2011–2012 Syrian uprising: Protests referred to by activists as "The Friday for International Military Intervention" spread from the northern city of Aleppo to the central regions of Hama and Homs, and southern province of Daraa. (Al Jazeera)
March 16, 2012, American actor George Clooney is arrested at a protest outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington D.C. together with Martin Luther King III, NAACP President Ben Jealous and several congressmen. (E Online)
March 16, 2012, Dr. Rowan Williams announces his intention to retire as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of the year. Having headed the Anglican Church since 2003, he will subsequently take up the role as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. (BBC)
March 16, 2012, The Commission of Inquiry into the 2010–11 Queensland floods hands down its report with engineers at the Wivenhoe Dam outside Brisbane to be referred to the Crime and Misconduct Commission. (ABC News Australia)
March 16, 2012, Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi is found guilty of a hate crime and invasion of privacy for his role in the Suicide of Tyler Clementi. (BBC)
March 16, 2012, North Korea announces plans to launch a new satellite in honour of regime founder Kim Il-Sung's birthday in April. (WTOP)
March 17, 2012, A Tibetan monk sets himself on fire in southwest China, in the latest in a series of similar incidents where nearly 30 monks have now self-immolated. (Times of India)
March 17, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI launches an internal investigation into leaks of confidential documents alleging corruption, financial mismanagement and power struggles among senior church officials. (AP)
March 17, 2012, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, the leader of Egypt's Coptic Christian community, dies of cancer at the age of 88. (BBC)
March 17, 2012, Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, convicted of accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews during The Holocaust, dies at the age of 91. (BBC)
March 17, 2012, Julian Assange announces plans to run for the Senate of Australia despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom. (News Limited)
March 18, 2012, Voters in the US territory of Puerto Rico go to the polls for the Republican primary with Mitt Romney winning all of the delegates. (Fox News)
March 19, 2012,
March 19, 2012,
March 19, 2012, Wendy's becomes the second best selling hamburger chain in the USA, overtaking Burger King. (CNN)
March 19, 2012, The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rules against a First Amendment free speech challenge to a regulation by the Food and Drug Administration requiring that tobacco companies put graphic images on their cigarette packaging. The imagery is designed to discourage smoking. (Reuters)
March 19, 2012, The International Atomic Energy Agency receives an invitation from North Korea to visit. (Al Jazeera)
March 20, 2012,
March 20, 2012,
March 20, 2012, John Carter records one of the biggest losses in cinema history, forcing Disney to take a $200 million writedown. (New York Times)
March 20, 2012, A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes near the border of the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca. (AP via Newsday)
March 20, 2012, Voters in the US state of Illinois go to the polls for the Republican primary with Mitt Romney projected as the winner.(National Journal)
March 21, 2012,
March 21, 2012,
March 21, 2012, The Greek parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal. (AP via MSN)
March 21, 2012, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton is suspended for a year without pay while former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams is banned indefinitely from the National Football League for their role in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal. (ESPN)
March 22, 2012, The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office says that Whitney Houston's official cause of death was drowning as a result of cocaine use. (CNN)
March 22, 2012, In the United States, about 350,000 people filed for unemployment benefits, hitting a four-year low, according to the United States Labor Department. (CNN)
March 22, 2012, More bodies are dug out of the wreck of the Costa Concordia. (Al Jazeera)
March 22, 2012, The parents of an unarmed black teen boy killed by gunshot wound in a suburb of Orlando in the U.S. state of Florida address a mass rally in New York to call for justice. (BBC)
March 22, 2012, In Montreal the biggest protest in Quebec's history sets out against the government's tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education, with more than 200 000 people marching in the streets ("Huffington Post")
March 23, 2012, Release of Hunger Games
March 23, 2012, Release of October Baby
March 23, 2012,
March 23, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Mexico and is greeted by thousands in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, and is also greeted by President Felipe Calderón. (BBC)
-In a statement by Pope Benedict XVI he says that Communism does not work for Cuba and that he is ready to help the island find new ways to move forward in a peaceful manner. (Reuters)
March 23, 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama nominates current President of Dartmouth College Jim Yong Kim to be head of the World Bank.(Los Angeles Times)
March 24, 2012,
March 24, 2012, A small piece of Kosmos 2251 satellite debris from the 2009 satellite collision safely passes by the International Space Station, allowing the six Expedition 30 crew members onboard the orbiting complex to exit their Soyuz spacecraft and resume normal activities. (NASA Television)
March 24, 2012, China announces phase-out practice of taking and selling organs from executed prisoners. (MSNBC)
March 24, 2012, Former United States Vice President Dick Cheney receives a heart transplant from an unknown donor. (CBC)
March 25, 2012,
March 25, 2012,
March 25, 2012, Kandahar massacre: The United States pays the Afghanistan government $50,000 for every person murdered during the Kandahar massacre. (Wall Street Journal)
March 25, 2012, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, begins a three day visit to South Korea amidst rising tension in North Asia about proposed missile tests by North Korea. (BBC)
March 25, 2012, In golf, Tiger Woods wins the Arnold Palmer Invitational tournament in Orlando, his first US PGA Tour victory since 2009. (AP via Silicon Vally Mercury)
March 26, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Cuba to begin his three day visit to the country. (Reuters)
March 26, 2012, The United States and China agree to co-ordinate their responses if a proposed North Korean rocket launch commences. (BBC)
March 26, 2012, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, is placed under formal investigation in France over alleged involvement in a prostitution ring. (BBC)
March 26, 2012, Campbell Newman is sworn in as the new Premier of the Australian state of Queensland following a landslide victory in Saturday's election. (The Courier-Mail)
March 26, 2012, Canadian filmmaker and adventurer James Cameron becomes the first person in fifty years to visit the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on earth in the Mariana Trench of the Pacific Ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger. (BBC)
March 26, 2012, Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook arrives in China for talks with government officials to clear up problems in the firm's biggest growth market, including the contested iPad trademark and treatment of local labor. (Reuters)
March 27, 2012, World leaders meet at a summit in Seoul, South Korea, to discuss nuclear security. (Reuters)
March 28, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI calls for greater openess in Cuba during a speech in Revolution Square, Havana. (Los Angeles Times)
March 28, 2012, The Mega Millions jackpot in the United States hits a record $500 million dollars, a world record in lottery history. (CNN)
March 28, 2012, The United States suspends planned food aid to North Korea, after the latter plans to launch a rocket next month. (Times of India)
March 29, 2012, Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford argues that newspaper standards are in "steep decline" and that documentaries offer "probably a better form of truth". (BBC)
March 29, 2012, The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in New Delhi, India for the 2012 BRICS summit. (Reuters)
March 30, 2012, Release of Mirror Mirror
March 30, 2012, Release of Wrath of the Titans
March 30, 2012,
March 30, 2012,
March 30, 2012, The Mega Millions jackpot in the United States is up to $640 million, becoming the world's largest lottery jackpot. (CBS News)
March 30, 2012, Huanglongbing or citrus greening, a disease which has killed millions of citrus trees in Brazil and Florida is discovered in a residential section of Los Angeles County, California, in the United States. (Washington Post)
March 30, 2012, London's Metropolitan Police is embroiled in a racism scandal after a black man used his mobile phone to record police officers subjecting him to a tirade of abuse in which he was told: "The problem with you is you will always be a nigger". (The Guardian)
March 31, 2012,
March 31, 2012,
March 31, 2012,
March 31, 2012, The spire of the Shard London Bridge is put in place making the completion of the United Kingdom's and European Union's largest building a step closer. (BBC)
March 31, 2012, The United States two acting unions, the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, agree to merge forming the SAG-AFTRA. (AP via Google)
