Diary

What's on this week

Today – South Africa hosts the second season of the Indian Premier League. Until May 24 (see page 30)

Monday – World Conference Against Racism, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland

Monday and Tuesday – Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century, in Beijing

Monday – 2009 Pulitzer Prize awards announced in New York City

Tuesday – King Abdullah of Jordan meets with US President Barack Obama to lobby on behalf of Arab states for a stronger US role in Middle East peacekeeping

Tuesday – United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II's 83rd birthday

Tuesday until Thursday – Aerospace 2009, in Munich, Germany

Wednesday – General election in South Africa

Wednesday – British Finance Minister Alistair Darling presents his annual budget

Wednesday – Seventh annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Until Sunday, May 3

Thursday – Second phases of Indian general elections

Friday and Saturday – G8 finance ministers' meeting in Washington DC


This day in history 

April 18, 1983 A suicide bomb targeted at the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killed more than 60 people, mostly embassy staff and US Marines and sailors. At the time, it was the deadliest attack on a US diplomatic mission, and is seen by some as marketing the beginning of anti-US attacks by militant groups.

The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a multinational force, made up of Western nations including America, in the Lebanese Civil War, to try to restore order and central government authority.

 

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