Saturday, January 22:
ALEXANDRIA — Resumption of trial of two police agents accused in the case of Khaled Said, who was tortured to death. Last session on Dec. 26 ended in scuffle between defendants supporters and Said's family.
CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak to meet French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie.
AMMAN, Jordan — French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie holds talks with her Jordanian counterpart before holding a joint press conference. 1530 GMT.
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez attends event marking the start of work on an undersea fiber-optic cable to Cuba.
PARIS —Paris fall/winter 2011-2012 menswear collections. Through Jan. 23.
PORTSMOUTH — Farewell parade for HMS Ark Royal, the famous aircraft carrier cut in the defence budget review.
LOS ANGELES — Filmmaker Judd Apatow hosts the Producers Guild of America Awards.
Sunday, January 23:
LISBON, Portugal — Portugal's financial crisis is expected to be a major factor in the country's presidential election, which opinion polls indicate would be easily won by the conservative incumbent after the Socialist government introduced unpopular austerity measures. Exit polls expected at 1900 GMT; results by around 2300 GMT.
BANGUI, Central African Republic — Elections after end of President Francois Bozize's term.
BRUSSELS — A grassroot demonstration wants to pressure the political parties into forming a government and end a seven-month stalemate.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Government opponents and supporters hold separate demonstrations on the anniversary of the 1958 fall of Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez. Anti-Chavez protests also planned in other cities across Latin America and in the U.S. and Europe.
JERUSALEM — Jewish Agency hosts news conference summarizing the Anti-Semitic incidents which took place around the world during the year 2010. 1330 GMT.
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian soldier becomes only the second since the Vietnam War to be awarded the nation's highest medal for courage under fire.
PARIS — Paris spring-summer 2011 couture shows. Through Jan. 27.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko hold press conference after signing declaration formally awarding the 2018 World Cup to Russia. 0800 GMT.
Monday, January 24:
WASHINGTON — Annual march to the Supreme Court to protest the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion.
BERLIN — Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel. News conference at 1445 GMT.
BRUSSELS — Human Rights Watch releases its annual review of human rights situations around the world, this year focusing on what it calls the silence and complicity of the U.S., U.N., EU and major European nations in dealing with rights-abusing developing nations. News confernce at 1001 GMT.
MIAMI — Court hearing in the family dispute over where the body of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez is to be buried.
HANOI, Vietnam — Jet Li to hold presser in Hanoi after helping Vietnam's Red Cross conduct blood drive.
Tuesday, January 25:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama gives the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. 0200 GMT.
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian court expected to hand down verdicts against a group of soccerr hooligans charged with fatally beating a French Toulouse fan. 1200 GMT.
NEW YORK — Tanzanian Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be convicted in a U.S. civilian court has sentencing hearing after his conviction in the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence.
JERUSALEM — Israeli military intelligence chief Aviv Kochavi briefs parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. 0900 GMT. Session is closed, briefing possible afterward.
BEVERLY HILLS, California — Oscar nominations are announced, 8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT).
BERLIN — Industrial conglomerate Siemens AG issues earnings figures for its fiscal first quarter.
Wednesday, January 26:
GENEVA — Senior Greek and Turkish Cypriot officials meet with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to discuss future of partitioned island.
MANITOWOC, Wisconsin — President Barack Obama visits one day after his State of the Union policy speech to Congress.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Colombian Defence Minister Rodrigo Rivera visits.
LAS VEGAS — Rocker Vince Neil goes on trial on misdemeanour drunken driving and speeding charges.
DAVOS, Switzerland — Opening of annual World Economic Forum. Through Jan. 30.
BERLIN — Business software maker SAP AG releases 2010 earnings figures.
Thursday, January 27:
OSWIECIM, Poland — The presidents of Germany and Poland gather with Holocaust survivors at the site of Auschwitz to mark the 66th anniversary of the death camp's liberation. It is part of the U.N.'s International Day of Commemoriation for victims of the Holocaust.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Trial begins for Charles Okah and others accused in Oct. 1 dual car bombing that killed at least 12 people in Nigeria's capital.
HELSINKI — Nokia reports Q4 results.
TOKYO — Nintendo earns.
TOKYO — NEC earns.
Friday, January 28:
BERLIN — German parliament votes on one-year extension to the deployment of troops in Afghanistan.
TOKYO — Fujitsu earns.
