What's on this week

Today – Presidential elections in Mauritania (moved from June 6)

Today – Aretha Franklin, Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, the Soweto Gospel Choir and France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (pictured) will perform in a concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday at Madison Square Garden in New York

Tomorrow – Ban on smoking in restaurants, bars and recreational places introduced in Turkey

Monday – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits India

Tuesday – 30th Annual General Assembly of the Assembly of First Nations and the election of the National Chief (to Thursday)

Wednesday and Thursday – US Vice-President Joe Biden visits Georgia

Wednesday – Pre-trial hearing in the court case of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Court at The Hague

Wednesday – Total solar eclipse visible in Eastern Asia, Indonesia and the Pacific Ocean

Thursday – Sixth Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Regional Security forum in Phuket, Thailand

Thursday – Presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan

Thursday and Friday – Informal meeting of EU energy ministers in Sweden

Thursday – The US Food and Drug Administration holds advisory panel meeting to discuss clinical trials of the vaccines against the H1N1 influenza virus

Friday and Saturday – US Vice-President Joe Biden visits Ukraine


This day in History

July 18, 1968 Intel was founded by chemist and physicist Gordon E Moore and integrated circuit inventor Robert Noyce after they left Fairchild Semiconductor. Intel was established as Integrated Electronics Corporation and based in Santa Clara, California. Intel's third employee was Andy Grove, a chemical engineer, who ran the company through much of the 1980s and the high-growth 1990s. Grove is now remembered as the company's key business and strategic leader. By the end of the 1990s, Intel was one of the largest and most successful businesses in the world. Today it is the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue.

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