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The Argentinian archbishop Jorge Bergoglio is elected pope and takes the name Francis in honour of St Francis of Assisi
Argentina submits a claim for large areas of the South Atlantic, including the Falkland Islands, under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention
The title of the Venice Biennale is The Encylopedic Palace, with a scale model displayed of Marino Auriti's imaginary museum of all the world's knowledge
The entire Neanderthal genome is sequenced, from the toe bone of a 150,000-year-old individual found in a cave in Siberia
American artist Jeff Koon's Balloon Dog (Orange) sells at Christie's in New York for $58.4 million, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction
Plans are published for an ambitious Garden Bridge, designed for pedestrians by Thomas Heatherwick, to span the Thames in London with trees and a garden on its surface
Prince George is born, son of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, immediately becoming the third in line of succession to the British throne
Australian scientists develop a microscope using the laws of quantum mechanics to probe with unparallelled precision the inner workings of living cells
Boeing launches, at the Paris Air Show, the 787-10 Dreamliner – the largest version as yet in a revolutionary series of passenger planes built from composite materials
Laure Prouvost, a French artist working in London, wins the Turner Prize with her work Wantee, evoking a fictional relationship between her grandfather and Kurt Schwitters
The Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre, designed by A+Architecture, is completed in Montpellier
In In Times of Fading Light Eugen Ruge creates a powerful saga depicting the decades of the East German Communist state, related in an account of three generations of his own family
Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang is the winner of the largest ever photographic competition, the Sony World Awards, with more than 122,000 entries submitted
Ayad Akhtar tackles a topical subject with his Pulitzer-Prize drama Disgraced, about a successful American's concealment of his Pakistani Muslim background
Narendra Modi emerges as the preferred BJP candidate for the Indian presidency, causing the US and UK to rescind the visa restrictions placed on him after the 1992 killing of Muslims in Gujarat
Shin Thawbita, a Buddhist monk in Burma, is burnt alive by a Muslim mob in Meikhtilar
Just four months before his death three powerful new works by John Tavener are premiered by the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall
A paper to the Endocrine Society in the USA, about male rats passing on the acquired characteristic of obesity to their male offspring, is part of a growing renewal of interest in Lamarck
Croatia joins the European Union, as the 28th member
Radical Islamists take more than 800 people hostage at the Amenas Gas Project in Algeria
French troops arrive in Mali, at the government's request, to help in evicting radical Islamist groups from the north of the country
About forty foreign hostages and twenty-nine militants die when Algerian forces raid the Amenas gas site
Scientists at Cambridge university prove that there is quadruple helix DNA in humans, promising potential protection against cancer
Netanyahu wins the Israeli election, with second place taken by a moderate party, Yesh Atid, newly formed by Yair Lapid
Violent protests erupt in Egypt against President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood
