In India a new income tax law comes into effect. It is a significant change on the old 1961 statute, and contains a controversial "angel tax" provision seeking to capture some of the income entering the country from foreign investors funding India's start-ups.

Pirates kidnap some crew members of a Danish-owned ship which they later abandon near São Tomé and Príncipe.

More than a dozen people are injured in separate incidents after two trains derail during a storm in Switzerland.

At least 35 people are killed and 18 others are injured when a stepwell collapses during prayers at a Hindu temple in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Four people are killed by avalanches in Northern Norway.

A large tornado causes major damage to the Little Rock, Arkansas metropolitan area, killing at least three people and injuring 24 others.

At least one person is killed and 28 others are injured when a tornado causes the roof of a theater in Belvidere, Illinois, to collapse during a concert.

Eleven people die after being crushed in a crowd which gathered to collect food outside a factory in Karachi, Pakistan.

Italy's Data Protection Authority blocks ChatGPT for allegedly breaching data protection rules and failing to verify that its users are at least 13 years old.