Today: Symposium on international water problems to be held in Stockholm. World Psychiatric Association meets in Germany. Russian cabinet discusses Year 2000 budget.
Tomorrow: EU meeting to vote on genetically-modified oilseed rape. North and South Korea to play international football match. World Federation for Women meets in Yemen. Red Cross marks 50th anniversary of the Geneva Convention.
Wednesday: Solar eclipse. Tajik President in China. ASEAN-China consultative meeting to be held. Steven Spielberg receives Smithsonian media award.
Thursday: Ariane satellite to be launched. Trial of Kurdish sympathisers who occupied Turkish embassy in the Netherlands starts in The Hague. European Commission to hold hearings on proposed merger between Exxon and Mobil.
Friday: Dalai Lama starts US visit. Academy of Motion Pictures to mark 100th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Hitchcock.
Saturday: Teams try to break world land speed record at Bonneville, Utah.
Sunday: South Korean National Liberation Day. Edinburgh International Festival starts. Fifty-second anniversary of independence for India and Pakistan.
Irish events of a world news interest should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.