Early November	EAST TIMOR: Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will send investigators into newly independent East Timor to examine allegations that thousands of people may have been tortured and killed in the past year by militia loyal to Indonesia. Their report could prompt the establishment of a war crimes tribunal.	World Agenda
November 3	AUSTRALIA: America's Joel Sherman will defend his title at the biannual World Scrabble Championships in Melbourne.	World Agenda
November 6	AUSTRALIA: Opinion polls have both sides neck and neck as Australians go into a referendum on whether to remove Queen Elizabeth as their head of state. While the Commonwealth nation appears in favour of ditching the British monarch, the republicans' proposal for a leader elected only by politicians has been difficult to sell to the public.	World Agenda
November 6	WALES: The 20 teams that entered the Rugby World Cup five weeks ago are reduced to two as the finalists square up for the cup at Cardiff's Millennium stadium.	World Agenda
November 14	NEW YORK: Afghanistan is under threat of UN sanctions unless it hands over Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the 1998 bomb attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in which 224 people died. The Taliban refuses to release bin Laden and has accused the UN of misusing its power to do America's bidding.	World Agenda
Mid-November	BRUSSELS: EU aid to Pakistan will be suspended unless the military regime that took power in a coup last month can present a credible timetable for a return to democracy. Pakistan's possible suspension from the Commonwealth will also be high on the agenda when leaders of the 54-nation group meet in South Africa this month.	World Agenda
November 17	LAGOS: Mohammed Abacha, son of the late Nigerian dictator General Sani Abacha, will appear in court in Lagos charged with the 1996 murder of Kudirat Abiola, wife of the late opposition leader Moshood Abiola. Mrs Abiola was shot in a Lagos street while her husband was in military detention.	World Agenda
November 27	WELLINGTON: New Zealand's general election sees Prime Minister Jenny Shipman in an uphill battle to retain power.	World Agenda
November 30	SEATTLE: Tens of thousands of protestors, from Indian sweatshop workers to Cuban president Fidel Castro, are swarming into Seattle for an eve-of-millennium showdown with the mighty World Trade Organisation, whose delegates are gathering for a four-day summit to discuss further trade liberalisation. Campaigners say the WTO is undemocratic, secretive and puts corporate interest before ordinary people. Last month the WTO admitted 'market forces cannot be entrusted to solve environmental problems'.	World Agenda