Armed conflicts and attacks
Staples reports that 1.16 million customer payment cards may have been affected in a data breach under investigation since October. (Fortune)
War in North-West Pakistan
The Pakistan Armed Forces conduct operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, killing seventy-seven militants. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
Sony Pictures Entertainment hack
Paramount Pictures orders theater chains, including those in Cleveland, Atlanta, and New Orleans, not to re-release the 2004 film Team America: World Police, which depicts a fictional mission to kill Kim Jong-il. (Mercury News)(The Times-Picayune)
Disasters and accidents
A Vietnam official states that twelve Vietnamese workers have been rescued three days after being trapped in a collapsed tunnel at a construction site of a hydropower plant located in Central Highlands. (AP via Salon)(Reuters)
The Indonesian volcano Gamalama erupts injuring four people and leaving one person missing. (AP via Business Standard)