WORLD AGENDA MARCH 2020 ------------------------------------- Mar 3, U.S.: Super Tuesday should isolate Democratic front-runners from the also-rans when 14 states, including populous California and Texas, hold primary elections to choose their nominee in the race to defeat President Donald Trump in November ------------------------------------- Mar 1, U.S.: Delta Air Lines plans to go fully carbon-neutral as a way to reduce its environmental impact, and says it will commit at least $1 billion over the next decade to the mission ------------------------------------- Mar 12, Greece: The Tokyo 2020 torch is lit at a ceremony in Olympia. The torch includes metal recycled from temporary housing in areas devastated by Japan’s 2011 earthquake, and will pass through areas worst hit by the disaster ------------------------------------- Mar 15, U.S.: NASA picks the winner of a contest to name the Mars 2020 rover. Nine names, chosen by U.S. schoolchildren, made the shortlist. The prize includes the chance to watch the rover launch in July ------------------------------------- Mar 2, Israel: A third election in 12 months follows the failure of prime minster Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party and Benny Gantz’s centre-left Kahol Lavan alliance to form a majority coalition in the Knesset ------------------------------------- Mar 15-22, France: With support for President Emmanuel Macron waning, voters in municipal elections are expected to hand major gains to Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National and the Greens on the ecological left ------------------------------------- Mar 26-27, Brussels: Climate and 5G networking loom as thorny issues for EU leaders at the year’s first summit, where they will also review the status of the divorce negotiations with Britain ------------------------------------- March, Nepal: A government-funded census will count numbers of greater one-horned rhinos in the country’s reserves. The census aims to give a clear picture of the population and its habitat, and an indication of how many rhinos the Chitwan National Park sanctuary can support ------------------------------------- Sources: NewsAhead, Julie Mullins Pictures: Getty Images, NASA/JPL-Caltech © GRAPHIC NEWS