Saturday
Sydney: Australia's Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House Plunge into darkness for the annual Earth Hour campaign, leading a global effort to raise awareness about climate change.
Hat Yai: Suspected Muslim insurgents stage the most deadly attack in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 11 people and wounding 110 with car bombs.
Sunday
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi over lunch on April 8 before making a private visit to the famous 13th century Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer.
Yangon: Myanmar's opposition claims a historic victory for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in her first bid for a seat in parliament, sparking scenes of jubilation among supporters.
Monday
Moscow: Thirty-one people are killed when a Russian passenger plane crashes while trying to make an emergency landing shortly after take-off near the western Siberian city of Tyumen, officials say.
United Nations: The Syrian government agrees to pull back its troops from cities and complete withdrawal of heavy weapons by April 10, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan tells the UN Security Council, even as western nations express doubts that the new promises would be kept.
Tuesday
Islamabad: Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed becomes one of only four terrorist leaders for whom the US has offered a bounty of $10 million, joining the likes of Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar.
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, several federal ministers and a senior Army General have a narrow escape when their aircraft makes emergency landings in two separate incidents, causing a minor scare.
Wednesday
Washington: The US charges Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks, along with four alleged plotters, vowing to seek the death penalty in a much-awaited military trial.
Washington: Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney sweeps the three key primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington DC, cementing his status as the almost certain nominee of the party to challenge incumbent Barack Obama in the November polls.
Thursday
Islamabad: Former ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha tells a Pakistani judicial commission that the military has not planned a coup after the US raid in Abottabad that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May last year.
Kathmandu: Army Chief Gen VK Singh offers all possible help to Nepal in its army integration process and for disaster management, saying India will do whatever it can to take forward the bilateral ties.
Friday
Bamako: Mali's Tuareg rebels declare independence in the north, a move rejected by the international community and the Islamist insurgents they fought beside, as fears grow of a humanitarian crisis.
Beijing: Tacitly pointing finger at its close ally Pakistan, China freeze assets of six absconding terrorists of a separatist outfit in Xinjiang, the native province of Muslim Uyghurs, and calls on foreign countries to arrest and hand them over to it.
