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- Trade officials from the United States, European Union, India and Brazil meet in New Delhi, India, to revive the World Trade Organization's Doha round of negotiations. (Forbes) (BusinessWeek)
- The United States Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates meets with the Defense Ministers of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Denmark as well as officials from Estonia and Romania to discuss progress in Afghanistan in expectation of a Taliban offensive. Two Canadian soldiers are killed when a roadside bomb explodes. (New York Times) (Reuters via Washington Post)
- The United States Senate votes to ease funding restrictions on stem-cell research but President Bush threatens to veto the bill. (BBC)
- The United States extends the tour of duty for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from a year to 15 months. (BBC)
- Joseph Biden, chair of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a presidential candidate, calls for the use of military force in Darfur. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
- A spring snow storm hits the midwestern United States, leading to the cancellation of flights and closure of schools. (CNN)
- Former U.S. Senator and prospective presidential candidate Fred Thompson announces he has lymphoma. (Bloomberg)
- Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina is charged with murder. (BBC)
- Traces of water vapor are reported to have been found in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b, a first for extrasolar planets. (Xinhua)
- Several explosions in Algiers, Algeria, leave 23 dead and dozens of people injured. (Sky) (BBC)
- Russian deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says a U.S. war against Iran would lead to a catastrophe. (RIAN)
- Macau's Monetary Authority says that holders of the North Korean accounts frozen at a bank by the United States can now withdraw or transfer their money. (CNN)
- North Korea claims that it can shut down its main nuclear reactor within a month. (ABC News Online) (BBC)
- Protestors gather in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to call for the resignation of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. (BBC)
- Premier of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao arrives in Japan for a summit visit that could help improve bilateral relations. He is the first Chinese Premier to visit Japan in almost seven years. (BBC)
- American novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies on April 11, 2007, in Manhattan after a fall at his Manhattan home several weeks prior results in irreversible brain injuries
- There will be a runoff election to select the next President of East Timor after no candidate achieves a majority of votes in the first round of voting. There are three candidates in contention for the runoff; the Prime Minister of East Timor Dr José Ramos-Horta, the Fretilin candidate Francisco Guterres and Fernando de Araújo of the Democratic Party. (ABC News Online) (AFP via News Limited) (BBC)
- Ice hockey: The 2007 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs begin. The inaugural matchup features the Pittsburgh Penguins visiting the Ottawa Senators at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario.
- Football: The semi-finals of Copa del Rey begin in Nou Camp. Argentinian Lionel Messi scored a spectacular goal against Getafe CF.That goal is very similar to a Diego Maradona's goal against England in Mexico World Cup 1986.Both of them passed six defenders including goalkeeper and scored.
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- Winners of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize are announced. Author Ray Bradbury and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane receive special citations. (CBC)
- Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, calls for an end of fighting between the Philippines government and the Moro National Liberation Front, which has killed at least 12 people over the past few days. (AP via IHT)
- At least 33 coal miners are trapped in a mine in Baofeng county, Henan province, China. (BBC)
- Sudan agrees to allow 3,000 United Nations troops in Darfur to support a 7,000 strong African Union force. (BBC)
- A series of shootings at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (commonly referred to as Virginia Tech) campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States, leaves at least 33 people (including the gunman) dead and 29 others wounded, making it the country's deadliest school shooting incident ever. (CBS) (CNN) (BBC) (Reuters)
- The offices of the Prosperous Armenia political party in Yerevan are bombed. No one is killed and no one has claimed responsibility. (RFE/RL)
- The United States, Japan and India carry out a joint naval exercise in the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to increase strategic cooperation. (AHN) (Hindu)
- Kalyk Imankulov, the former Chairman of the Kyrgyz National Security Service, joins the United Front For A Worthy Future For Kyrgyzstan political alliance. The alliance is staging its sixth day of protests as it calls for the resignation of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. (Interfax) (EurasiaNet)
- Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski and his ex-bodyguard Johan Tarculovski face trials for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. (BBC)
- Wal-Mart retakes the #1 position on the 2007 Fortune 500 list with US$351.1 billion in revenue for F/Y 2006, beating previous #1 ExxonMobil by $3.9 billion. (Fortune Magazine)
- At least 11 people die in southern India as a passenger train runs into a minibus carrying local officials near the village of Thirumatpur in Tamil Nadu. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
- At least ten Afghan police die in a suicide bombing in Kunduz in northeastern Afghanistan. (BBC)
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- Iccho Ito, the mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, is shot at least twice outside his re-election campaign headquarters. The assassin, Tetsuya Shiroo, is alleged to be a senior member of a local gang affiliated to the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate. (Reuters) (AP via IHT)
- The Olympic Council of Asia chooses Incheon, South Korea over New Delhi, India, to host the 2014 Asian Games. (BBC)
- Four Nepalese United Nations workers and their driver are killed in a roadside bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (BBC)
- Kevin Rudd, the leader of the Australian Labor Party, announces changes to the party's industrial relations policy, including the right to a secret ballot before strike action. (AAP via Melbourne Age)
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- Colombia's Nevado del Huila volcano erupts, provoking avalanches and floods that sweep away houses and bridges, which , in turn, prompt hundreds to evacuate. (The Hindu)
- After the acquisition of Algoma Steel, India's Essar Group plans to buy U.S.-based Minnesota Steel for US$ 1.66 billion. (Reuters) (Bloomberg)
- A diplomat claims that an International Atomic Energy Agency document claims that Iran has assembled some 1,300 centrifuges at a key underground nuclear plant in Natanz and has started to feed them with the uranium gas necessary for enriching uranium. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- The Supreme Court of the United States rules 5-4 in favor of upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart. (CNN)
- Virginia Tech massacre:
- Virginia Tech police respond to what turned out to be an unfounded threat near Norris Hall, where 31 people died Monday in the United States's deadliest ever shooting spree. (CNN)
- Authorities announce that Seung-Hui Cho, the gunman who killed more than 30 people on Monday at Virginia Tech, has sent a package that contained disturbing images and video to NBC during the two-hour period between the shootings at the West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory and the shootings at Norris Hall. The new evidence is sent to the FBI for more analysis. (CNN)
- Liviu Librescu, the Jewish Romanian engineering professor who was shot five times while holding off the gunman at his classroom entrance so his students could escape, is posthumously awarded the Star of Romania by the Romanian government. (Romanian press release)
- Iraqi insurgency:
- At least 16 secondary school students die in Egypt's Al Jizah governorate as the truck they were traveling to school on collides with another vehicle. (Reuters via CNN)
- Three workers at a publishing house in Turkey that prints Bibles are murdered in ongoing sectarian violence. (BBC) (Reuters)
- Australia and the United States agree to exchange hundreds of asylum seekers kept in offshore detention camps in Nauru and Guantanamo Bay. (AP via IHT)
- Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, dies after being shot in a suspected gangland killing on Tuesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denounces the murder as unforgivable. (Reuters) (BBC)
- The People's Republic of China begins a new service of high-speed trains capable of reaching speeds of 200km/h (124 mph). (BBC)
- Thirty-two steel workers are killed and two more injured in China after a ladle full of liquid steel failed, engulfing an adjacent room full of workers. (News.com.au)
- UEFA chooses Poland and Ukraine as joint hosts for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. (BBC)
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- Turkey Christians tortured and murdered and Turkey's government, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a former Islamist, has expresses concern over the spread of Christian activity in Turkey, VOA reported [1].
- Israeli troops have shot dead three Palestinians in raids in the West Bank, the army and local residents say.(BBC)
- According to exit polls, Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal will meet in the second round of the French presidential election on May 6. François Bayrou and Jean-Marie Le Pen are believed to have received the third and fourth most votes respectively. (BBC)
- War in Iraq: Gunmen kill 21 members of northern Iraq's Yezidi community after dragging them from a bus. (CNN)
- War in Somalia (2006–present):
- Avraham Hirschson, the Finance Minister of Israel, stands down for three months while the Israeli police investigate a claim that he failed to report an embezzlement case when he was working for a trade union. (AP via IHT)
- South Korea agrees to resume food aid to North Korea, sending 400,000 tons of food north. (BBC)
- In Zimbabwe investigating officer Wellington Ngena accuses the Government of South Africa's Scorpions intelligence department of training members of the Movement for Democratic Change in combat to overthrow the Government of Zimbabwe. (allAfrica)
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- Kevin Tillman, brother of former American football player Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan, accuses the U.S. military of manipulating his death during testimony to the U.S. Congress. (BBC)
- At least ten people are killed and 120 injured as a severe storm hits the twin towns of Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila, on the U.S.-Mexico border. (CNN) (BBC)
- Jadarite, a mineral of the same composition as Superman's Kryptonite, has been found in a Serbian mine. (BBC)
- The United States Department of Veterans Affairs allows the Wiccan pentagram to be used on the tombstones of deceased soldiers. (New York Times)
- Abortion in Mexico: Mexico City's Legislative Assembly votes to legalise abortion on demand during the first trimester of pregnancy. (BBC)
- Thousands of people gather in Moscow, Russia to mourn former President Boris Yeltsin. (BBC)
- Prisoners riot at the New Castle Correctional Facility in Indiana, United States. (CNN)
- Ethiopian rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front raid a Chinese-run oil field in near the country's border with Somalia, killing 74. (BBC) (Houston Chronicle)
- The Tamil Tigers launch an air attack on the Sri Lankan military's main base in Jaffna. (BBC)
- British anti-terrorism police arrest five people in London and one in Luton for alleged breaches of the Terrorism Act. (CNN)
- Foreign Minister of Turkey Abdullah Gül is nominated as the AK Party candidate for President of Turkey. (BBC)
- Toyota overtakes General Motors in global vehicle sales from January to March as a result of increased demand for fuel-efficient cars. (Bloomberg)
- The military arm of Hamas fires rockets and mortars into Israel from Gaza. (New York Times)
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