Portal:Current events/2014 February 4

• A police officer and seven Islamist militants are killed in a gunfight in Tunis, Tunisia. (Reuters)

• Archaeologists working near the ancient settlement of Edfu in southern Egypt discover the remains of a 4,600-year-old step pyramid. (LiveScience via Fox News)

• The software company Microsoft internally promotes Satya Nadella to be its next CEO and appoints John W. Thompson as its chairman. (Fox Business)

• At least 10 people are dead and 35 injured when a bus falls into a ditch while travelling between the Indian cities of Pune and Satara. (NDTV)

• The Scottish Parliament votes overwhelmingly (105–18) in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Scotland. (BBC News)
• The New York City Police Department questions four suspected heroin dealers in connection with Philip Seymour Hoffman's death. (Fox News)
• Sixteen missing children are rescued from Super Bowl-associated sex-trade slavery in an FBI sting. (Fox News)

• United States House of Representatives member Rob Andrews announces that he will retire at the end of his current term. (Politico)
• Michael McFaul, the United States Ambassador to Russia, announces that he is stepping down from the job after two years. (The Guardian)