Saturday
Gaza City: Two Palestinians are killed in a new Israeli air strike on central Gaza, raising the death toll to 42, the emergency services in the territory said.
London: Ireland has said it will not be rushed into an immediate decision on right to abortion even as it assured India that an independent medical professional will assist the enquiry into the death of an Indian national who was refused termination of her pregnancy despite miscarriage.
Sunday
Gaza City: Israel pounds Gaza enclave with a barrage of missiles for a fifth day today, killing at least 23 people, including women and children, targeting media houses and the home of a Hamas official, and threatening to "send Gaza back to the Middle Ages".
Islamabad: A top Pakistani Parliamentary Panel expressed reservations about the government's move to grant the Most Favoured Nation-status to India, with some of its members claiming that the measure would "destroy" the domestic agriculture sector.
Monday
Phnom Penh: The new Chinese leadership will give great importance to relations with India, outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the two appreciated working with each other over the last eight years, in what was most likely their last meeting.
Phnom Penh: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces that India is ready to conclude the much-delayed Free Trade Agreement in Services and Investment with ASEAN by next month that will provide a "springboard" for rapid expansion in ties, as he invited investments from the 10-nation grouping citing "enormous opportunities".
Almaty/Houston: Record-setting Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams along with two fellow cosmonauts safely returned to Earth today from the ISS, touching down on the steppes of Kazakhstan, after spending four months in orbit.
Tuesday
Gaza City: Fresh exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas continues unabated amid intensified international diplomatic efforts, with Egypt saying that Israeli "aggression" would end as a week of incessant raids claimed at least 122 Palestinian lives.
Phnom Penh: Japan will give a fresh loan of about $22.6 billion for the second phase of Dedicated Freight Corridor and an infrastructure project in South India, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda tells his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh as they met here, making up for an opportunity lost a few days ago.
Wednesday
Cairo: Israel and Palestinian group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, agree on a ceasefire to end a week-long violence in which at least 150 people have been killed.
London: Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny appeals to the husband of Savita Halappanavar, an Indian dentist who died due to pregnancy-related complications after being denied abortion, to meet the head of the team probing her death, amid his demand for a full public investigation.
New York: A white supremacist, who killed six Sikhs at a gurdwara in the US state of Wisconsin in August, had acted alone and there was no evidence that the attack was part of any ongoing threat to the community, the FBI has said, concluding its probe into the tragic incident.
Thursday
Gaza City: Hamas leaders in Gaza declare victory over Israel and thousands of flag-waving supporters rally in celebration as the battered territory enters its first day of calm under an Egyptian-brokered truce that ended the worst cross-border fighting in four years.
New Delhi/Islamabad: Pakistan tightens security at the Indian embassy in Islamabad following a 'note verbale' by New Delhi asking for greater security for the mission and its staff in view of Ajmal Kasab's hanging.
Friday
Cairo: Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi assures his supporters that the country was on a path of "freedom and democracy" even as thousands of people staged rival rallies across the polarised nation to both support and oppose his move to assume sweeping powers.
London: A third man of Indian origin is charged with attacking 'Operation Blue Star' hero K S Brar here, British police said, a day after announcing the arrest of two more people, including a woman, in connection with the assault on the retired General.
