1 - National Day of People's Republic of China.
1 - 63rd session of UN General Assembly ends.
1 - Auction of Princess Diana letters, Colchester, England.
1 - 50th anniversary of NASA space agency founding.
1 - Alternative Nobel Prizes awarded in Stockholm by the Right Livelihood Award.
1 - Deadline for handover to EU observers of Russian-patrolled security zones in Georgia.
1 - Spanish Premier Zapatero to meet with Medvedev in Moscow.
1 - Bank of Japan to release Tankan survey on sentiment among the nation's largest manufacturers for July-September quarter, and government to release August labour survey.
1-2 - Informal meeting of EU defence ministers in Deauville, France.
1-2 - Petersburg Dialogue on Russo-German relations takes place in St Petersburg, with Mikhail Gorbachev and Lothar de Maiziere.
2 - US vice presidential candidates Biden and Palin debate at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri.
2 - ECB Council meets.
2-3 - German-Russian talks in St Petersburg, with Chancellor Merkel, President Medvedev.
2-3 - Informal meeting of EU defence ministers in Deauville, France.
3 - US unemployment figures for September.
3 - German Unity Day.
3 - CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid to go into operation in Geneva.
3 - Ig Nobel prizes for Improbable Research awarded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
4 - German SPD holds special congress in Hesse state to discuss relations with Left Party.
4 - Guatemalan President Avaro Colom to visit Taiwan.
5 - 20th anniversary of electoral triumph over Augusto Pinochet in Chile
6 - Afghanistan starts electoral registration for 2009 presidential election.
6 - Nobel prize for medicine awarded in Stockholm.
6-10 - World Policy Conference in Paris, with Kofi Annan, Hans-Gert Poettering and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
7 - Second US presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee.
7 - German parliament debates International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) deployment in Afghanistan.
7 - Hearing in sodomy case filed against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
7-10 - Interpol conference in St Petersburg.
7-13 - Autumn meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Washington.
8 - Intermot motorcycle trade fair in Cologne.
9 - Possible date for Nobel literature prize awarded in Oslo. (Nobel Foundation has not yet named the date).
9 - Japanese government to release machinery orders for August.
9-10 - NATO defence ministers meet in Budapest.
10 - Deadline for complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia proper into breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
10 - Deadline for Alaska legislature investigative report of Republican vice presidential candidate Palin on undue use of influence.
10 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo.
10 - National Day of Republic of China (Taiwan).
11 - Cuba's national football team to play in Washington for first time ever.
12 - Semi-autonomous Russian republic of Chechnya holds parliamentary elections.
12 - Lithuanian parliamentary elections.
13 - Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi visits US President Bush at White House.
13 - Announcement of winner of German Book Prize.
14 - Irish budget presented early amid gloomy economic outlook.
14 - Canadian Elections.
15-16 - EU summit in Brussels.
15 - Third US presidential debate in Hempstead, New York.
15 - Frankfurt Book Fair begins.
15 - Azerbaijan elects new president.
15 - Japanese government to release revised industrial production index for August.
16 - US inflation rate for September.
16 - Germany issues new growth forecast.
16 - Millionaire Fair opens in Munich.
17 - Shahrukh Khan introduces Temptation Reloaded stage show in Berlin.
18 - German SPD party holds special congress to elect Muenterfering as party leader.
19 - German Book Trade Peace Prize to Anselm Kiefer, the artist.
19-21 - Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque visits Mexico.
20 - US Index of leading economic indicators.
20-21 - EU-Africa conference in Paris.
20-23 - European Parliament meets in Strasbourg.
20-26 - Irish Prime Minister Cowen visits China.
21-22 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II visits Slovenia.
22 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds education summit with state premiers.
23 - Daimler quarterly figures.
25 - Basque region holds referendum on independence.
29 - Japanese government to release preliminary industrial production index for September.
29-31 - Iberian-American Summit in San Slavador.
30 - Last flight from Berlin's Tempelhof Airport (opened 1923).
30 - BMW quarterly figures.
30 - 25th anniversary of first election in Argentina after 1976-83 military dictatorship.
31 - Japanese government to release average household spending and unemployment rate for September as well as the consumer price index for October.
