Today: Three "wise men" on EU reform present report to Commission. Malaysian court trying former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim decides on continuation of sodomy trial. King Abdullah and Queen Rania of Jordan visit Spain. Mandela visits Israel. Peace talks on Burundi resume in Dar-es-Salaam. Solana meets European Commission President as he takes up post as EU foreign and security policy chief. Officials from Greece and Turkey expected to meet in US. Special session of WEU begins in Luxembourg. Strike by French airline employees.
Tomorrow: President Jiang Zemin of China begins European tour in London. UN Hague war crimes court rules in genocide trial of Bosnian Serb policeman. Interior and justice ministers from G8 countries meet in Moscow. NATO General Assembly in Strasbourg. Crown Prince Felipe of Spain visits Egypt. Chinese defence minister visits Israel.
Wednesday: Three Iranian students stand trial accused of blasphemy. Turkish foreign minister visits Cuba.
Thursday: Indonesian parliament elects president and vice-president. Papon appears before France's highest court to appeal. Appeal trial of Ocalan resumes in Ankara. Governing Council of European Central Bank meets in Frankfurt.
Friday: EU Employment and Social Affairs Council meets in Luxembourg. Inauguration ceremony for president of Central African Republic. EU-Russia summit in Helsinki. African industry ministers in Dakar.
Saturday: Prince Philippe of Belgium and fiancee Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz begin tour of Belgium.
Sunday: United Nations Day. Second round of voting to lower house of Kazakhstan. Deadline for Russian election hopefuls to register with the Central Election Commission. Local elections in German Land of BadenWurttemberg. Parliamentary election in Switzerland. Presidential and parliamentary in Argentina. Local elections in Armenia. Mandela in South Korea.
Ireland
Today: The President, Mrs McAleese, leaves for State visit to Czech Republic. Tomorrow: William Cash, Tory MP; Anthony Coughlan; Alan Dukes speak on UCD Economics Society resolution "That the Euro Is Wrong for Ireland": Theatre M, Arts Block, Belfield at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday: Charlie McCreevy addresses European Movement conference on regional development, at Berkeley Court Hotel, Dublin. Oireachtas committee on European affairs discusses asylum policy, PfP, Pakistan, Chechnya, and Dagestan. Friday: Department of Sociology, TCD, seminar on "Liberalism and the Challenges of Democratic Cultural Pluralism" with Dr Laurence Davis, Department of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway: Room 0.3 in 1 College Green, Dublin. Noon to 2 p.m. Saturday: Conference on "Beyond Borders: New Agendas for Refugee Protection in the 21st Century", Peter Froggatt Centre, QUB, Belfast. (e-mail: k.agnew@qub.ac.uk)
Irish events of a world news interest for this column should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication