Saturday
Washington: US First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to Wisconsin next week to meet the victims and family members of the Oak Creek Gurdwara shooting that killed six Sikh worshippers.
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari directs the Sindh government to frame a draft law to amend constitution to prevent the forced conversion of minority communities in the Southern province.
Sunday
London: Defying British diplomatic hints to arrest him, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange emerges in public for the first time in two months since he took refuge in the Ecuador embassy here and asks US President Barck Obama to end the "witch-hunt" against his whistle-blower website.
Khartoum: A cabinet minister is among 32 politicians, generals and others killed as a plane crashes on its way to Sudan's war-torn South Kordofan state for the start of Muslim holidays, state media and an aviation official says.
Monday
Beijing: Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai's wife Gu Kailai, who confessed to murdering a British businessman, is handed down a suspended death sentence by a Hefei court in a high-profile case that triggered a major political scandal in ruling CPC and cost her husband his job.
Islamabad: India and Pakistan are likely to carry out their biggest ever swap of prisoners being held in each other's jails as part of the normalisation of their relations, according to a media report.
Tuesday
Washington/New Delhi: A US court dismisses whistle-blower harassment charges against Indian IT major Infosys filed by its employee Jack Palmer as no basis to support any of the allegations was found.
Kabul/Washington: Taliban militants fire rockets and damage the special aircraft of the top most US military commander in Afghanistan's highly secure Bagram air base, but General Martin Dempsey escapes as he was not in the plane.
Wednesday
New York: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is ranked the sixth most powerful woman in the world, ahead of US First Lady Michelle Obama, by Forbes magazine in its list of 100 women, which is topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the second year in a row.
United Nations: UN leader Ban Ki-moon will attend a Non-Aligned summit in Tehran next week despite protests by Israel and calls by the United States to stay away from the event, a UN spokesman says.
Thursday
Dhaka: Bangladesh issues an ordinance changing the operational structure of the Grameen Bank as the government tightens its grip over the pioneering micro lender, defying appeals from its Nobel Laureate founder Muhammad Yunus and US pressure.
Washington: The US advises India to ensure Internet freedom while seeking to preserve national security, as the Indian government asks social networking websites to check pages carrying inflammatory messages.
Friday
Oslo: An Oslo court sentences Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik to 21 years in prison, subject to extension, for his killing spree last year that left 77 people dead.
Melbourne: In a major relief to India-born American surgeon Jayant Patel, an Australian court quashes his conviction for manslaughter of three patients in a Queensland hospital and orders a retrial, calling him a victim of a "substantial miscarriage" of justice.
