Daylight saving time goes into effect across the United States (except Arizona and Hawaii) and

Canada American film Oz the Great and Powerful brings 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 Burmese National League for Democracy reelects Aung San Suu Kyi as its leader. The European Union bans 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 Shanghai with drinking water North Korea breaks the 1953 armistice with South Korea and cuts the phone line between the two countries, after United States and South Korea have begun military drills. Warns that the next step will be 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 Commission accuses the state of Illinois of securities fraud NY state judge invalidates a New York City ban on the sale of soft drinks larger than 16 ounces Google agrees to pay $7 million to settle a privacy lawsuit over the handling of wireless data. A study finds a correlation between insufficient sleep and weight gain. A twin-engine plane crashes in the Brazilian state of Par, killing all nine passengers and the pilot. A shooting spree leaves 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 is a Higgs boson At least 16 people are killed in a fireworks accident in Mexico At least 24 people die when a double decker bus veers off an overpass in South Africa Three people die after a twin-engine plane crashes into a parking lot in Florida North Korea launches short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan. Scientists working on the Lazarus Project announce that they have rejuvenated cells from extinct frog Cyprus is having a financial crisis but they keep rejecting EU bailout packages US helicopter crashes in southern Afghanistan The United States scraps the final stage of its European missile shield but is putting $1mil into nations ability to defend West Coast from N. Korean missiles In figure skating, Kim Yu-Na of South Korea wins the Ladies Championship Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize 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, is home 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 explosions kill at least 25 people in a bus park in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Seven U.S. Marines are killed and seven others are injured when a mortar explodes during a training exercise in Nevada Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton officially announces her support for same-sex marriage US President Barack Obama nominates Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez to be the next United States Secretary of Labor.