WORLD AGENDA SEPTEMBER 2011

September 5, Cairo: Live television coverage will be banned when Hosni Mubarak, ousted in the Arab uprisings, appears in court for the third time. Cameras filmed Egypt's former leader in a barred dock on a hospital bed at the first two hearings.

Early September, Washington: U.S. President Barack Obama spells out plans for economic reform in a major speech, according to reports. Obama, criticised for rehashing old ideas, is expected to come up with fresh proposals for creating jobs and debt reduction.

September 9, Auckland: New Zealand's All Blacks open the seventh Rugby World Cup with a game against Tonga. The host nation is one of the favourites to win the tournament, which ends October 23.

September 11, United States: President Barack Obama visits all three sites of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Commemorations will be held in New York's Lower Manhattan, Shanksville, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon in northern Virginia.

September 12, Norway: A massive 80 percent turnout for local elections is expected amid an atmosphere of political solidarity in the wake of the twin attacks by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik. His July 22 car bomb and shooting spree killed 77 people.

September 20, New York: The Palestinian Authority applies to the UN for international recognition of statehood. PA president Mahmoud Abbas is expected to present the bid in person to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the opening of the UN's 66th General Assembly.

September 20, Zambia: President Rupiah Banda is expected to win another five year term in presidential elections after a challenge to his candidacy was overruled. The main opposition Patriotic Front sought to block him on the grounds that his father was not Zambian.

September 24, United Kingdom: The Seraph's Watch, by pre-Raphaelite British artist Ford Madox Brown, not seen in public for over a century and believed lost, is exhibited at Manchester Art Gallery. The 1847 work was rediscovered in a private collection two years ago.

September (undated), Paris: Manuel Noriega is extradited to Panama where he has been convicted in absentia of human rights violations during his rule in the 1980s. The 77-year-old, in prison in France, spent 17 years in a U.S. jail for drug trafficking.

September (undated), Turkey: Twenty-eight servicemen go on trial accused of involvement in a planned coup to oust president Abdullah Gul. The case is part of the country's shift towards civilian supremacy over a military that has unseated four governments.
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