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 06 July 2008 03:42 BST

The world in April

Wednesday, 30 Apr 2008 17:52
Still no result in Zimbabwe
A summary of key events from around the world in the last month.

Americas

Thursday 3rd: Recession warning. US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke admitted to Congress "recession is possible" in the US as the economy shrinks.
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Wednesday 16th: Pope visits US. Pope Benedict XVI called himself a "friend of the US" in a speech at the White House on his 81st birthday.
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Tuesday 22nd: Food warning. Peru's president Alan Garcia spoke out against biofuels, insisting food production needs to be the number one priority in the developing world.
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Wednesday 23rd: Clinton wins Pennsylvania. The Democrat presidential race took another twist when Hillary Clinton won convincingly with a ten-point margin.
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Africa

Friday 3rd: Hostages taken. The 30 crew members of a luxury French yacht were taken hostage off the coast of Somalia by pirates. They were released a week later.
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Thursday 10th: Historic peace deal.. Twenty years of fighting came to an end when Uganda's rebel leader Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army finally put pen to paper.
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Thursday 17th: Raila Odinga takes office. The presidential challenger in Kenya was sworn in as prime minister, fulfilling the terms of a power-sharing deal.
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Saturday 26th: Another disputed election. A recount of votes in Zimbabwe saw the opposition keep their seats in parliament, as Robert Mugabe continued to cling to power.
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Asia

Tuesday 8th: So-yeon Yi blasts off. The first South Korean to enter space successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. She returned on April 19th.
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Wednesday 9th: Nuclear agreement. North Korea announced it had reached agreement with the US on a compensation deal in exchange for disclosing its nuclear activities.
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Saturday 19th: Ambassador held captive. It emerged Tariq Azizuddin, Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, had been kidnapped by the Taliban.
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Saturday 26th: Olympic protests. The latest anti-Chinese protests calling for Tibetan independence took place in Japan, with three arrested and four hurt during the torch relay.
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Europe

Thursday 3rd: An unusual street opening. Ledra Street in Nicosia, which has divided Cyprus' northern and southern halves for four and a half decades, opened following a symbolic ceremony.
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Sunday 6th: Agreement with Bush. The US president and Russia's Vladimir Putin signed a framework agreement on relations between their respective countries.
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Tuesday 15th: Berlusconi back. Italy's flamboyant former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi returned to power after winning the country's latest elections.
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Wednesday 30th: Incest suspect closes up. An Austrian man who subjected his daughter to 24 years of sexual abuse in a cellar stopped talking to police, officers confirmed.
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Middle East

Friday 18th: Gulf assassination. A member of Yemen's ruling party, Saleh al-Hindi, was shot dead as he drove through a rebel stronghold.
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Monday 21st: A hostile reception. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deputy general Olli Heinonen arrived in Iran to inspect the country's nuclear programme.
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Thursday 24th: Gaza blockade forces UN out. The Israeli fuel blockade in Gaza finally forced the UN to suspend its humanitarian work in the region.
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Friday 25th: US makes nuclear accusation. The US called on Syria to come clean about its efforts to build a covert nuclear reactor.
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Iraq

Tuesday 1st: UK troop withdrawals delayed. Defence secretary Des Browne told MPs planned withdrawls had to be put back because of renewed violence in Basra.
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Wednedsay 9th: Fifth anniversary. Officials in Baghdad imposed a one-day vehicle curfew to mark the fifth anniversary of the city's capture by US forces.
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Friday 18th: Bombing leaves 50 dead. A funeral of two Sunni militia men 90 miles north of Baghdad left at least 50 dead and a further 50 injured.
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Wednesday 23rd: All change at the top. General David Petraeus, the commander in charge of US troops in Iraq, was nominated to become the next commander of the US military's Central Command.
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