• 19 March 2013 Iraq attacks:
  • A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq. (BBC) (Reuters) (CNN)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict:
  • Two people are injured in explosions at Turkey's justice ministry and the headquarters of the governing AK Party in Ankara. (BBC)

• 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis: Cypriot lawmakers overwhelmingly reject the EC–ECB–IMF troika plan to tax all bank deposits. (BBC) (RTÉ News)

• A bus crash in the Indian state of Maharashtra kills at least 37 people and injures 14 others. (AAP via Herald Sun)
• At least 16 people are dead after landslides in a mountainous area north of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. (BBC)

• Saudi Arabia police arrest one Iranian, one Lebanese and 16 Saudis on charges of spying. (BBC)
• An American man is sentenced to between five and ten years in prison for the murder of Irish tourist Nicola Furlong in Japan. (The Irish Times) (Irish Independent)
• A suspect, Qari Abdul Saeed, is arrested in Pakistan for the 2002 beheading of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. (CNN) (NBC News)
• In the U.S. state of Ohio, Thomas Lane receives three life sentences for the child murders at Chardon High School that he committed in February 2012 as a 17-year-old. (AP)
• The United States Supreme Court holds in a 6–3 decision that the first-sale doctrine applies to the domestic sale of foreign copies of copyrighted work lawfully made abroad. (IP-Watch)
• Benjamin Pierce Bishop, a civil defense contractor who works in intelligence, was charged with giving U.S. national security secrets his Chinese girlfriend. (AP via New York Post)

• In Ukraine, a fight breaks out during a session of the Verkhovna Rada over the use of the Russian language in politics. (Sky News) (Kyiv Post) (MSN)

• Hundreds of thousands of people attend the papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis in Rome's Saint Peter's Square. (BBC) (AFP via Straits Times)^{[permanent dead link]}

• NASA's Mars rover Curiosity extends evidence of water-bearing minerals when studying the rock Tintina. (BBC) (NASA) (JPL)
• The United States Air Force successfully launches an Atlas V 401 rocket carrying a missile defense satellite SBIRS-GEO 2. (Space.com)
• NASA publishes LRO images of the two craters on the Moon, where twin GRAIL probes ended their gravity-mapping mission in December 2012. (NASA) (Space.com) (BBC)

• English striker Michael Owen, who plays for Stoke City, announces his retirement from football at the end of the 2012–13 Premier League season. (BBC) (The Guardian)
• Former Danish road bicycle racer Rolf Sørensen admits in a press release that he utilised EPO and cortisone during his professional career. (Cycling News)
• In baseball, the Dominican Republic wins the 2013 World Baseball Classic defeating Puerto Rico 3–0 in the final. (MLB) (The Guardian) (ESPN)
• In wrestling, the 2013 European Wrestling Championships begins today in Tbilisi, Georgia. (CELA) (Xinhua)