March 31, 2023 (Friday)

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.

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.

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

The Storm Prediction Center issues a high risk convective outlook, the first high risk issued in over two years, ahead of an expected severe weather outbreak across the Mississippi River valley in the United States.

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.

Thirty-six people are killed and 17 others are injured when a stepwell collapses during prayers at a Hindu temple in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.

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.