TUESDAY: Labor Department releases 2nd-quarter employment cost index. 8:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: Commerce Department releases 3rd-quarter gross domestic product. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce releases September new home sales. 10 a.m.; Federal Reserve releases the beige book of regional economic activity. Noon.

THURSDAY: Commerce releases September personal income-spending. 8:30 a.m.; Labor releases weekly jobless claims. 8:30 a.m.; National Association of Realtors releases 3rd-quarter housing affordability, time to be announced.

FRIDAY: Labor releases October employment report. 8:30 a.m.; Commerce releases September factory orders. 10 a.m.

New Delhi, India - World Economic Forum and the Confederation of Indian Industry host Indian economic summit. Through Oct. 29.

Sofia, Bulgaria - Presidential elections.

Budapest, Hungary - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen addresses rally in front of Hungarian Parliament, on invitation from Hungarian extreme right winger Istvan Csurka.

Washington - President Clinton travels to northern Virginia, Nashville, Tenn., and St. Louis.

Canberra, Australia - Parliament debates bill to overturn local law in the Northern Territory that legalized medically assisted voluntary euthanasia.

Bangkok, Thailand - Visit of British Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Through Nov. 1.

Jakarta, Indonesia - Trial of 64 supporters of former opposition leader for rioting.

Washington - Supreme Court in recess until Nov. 4; Congress in recess until January.

Washington - President Clinton travels to St. Louis, Minneapolis, Chicago and Columbus, Ohio.

Beloit, Wis. - Preliminary hearing for self-professed Indian medicine man 63-year-old John W. Sharlow who is accused of inappropriately touching four women and a girl during a pipe/healing ceremony.

Madison, Wis. - Federal court appearance for seven indicted in theft of combat vehicles from Fort McCoy.

Blacksburg, Va. - Ross Perot speaks at rally at Virginia Tech.

Fairfax, Va. - Trial of Jason Garrison, teen-ager accused of participating in killing of a neighborhood boy.

Philadelphia - Liberty Bell rally demanding extradition of Pennsylvania resident whom protesters say was a Nazi war criminal.

Rochester, N.Y. - Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader speaks at University of Rochester.

Cairo, Egypt - 40th anniversary of the start of the 1956 Middle East war.

Vienna, Austria - Benefit auction of art works, coins and other objects stolen by Nazis from Jewish homes in Austria during Holocaust. Through Oct. 30.

Ljubljana, Slovenia - German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel visits.

Johannesburg, South Africa - Former police Gen. Johan le Roux appears under subpoena before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Washington - President Clinton travels to Philadelphia. President and Mrs. Clinton unveil painting by African-American artist which will be part of White House permanent collection.

Las Vegas - Sentencing of James Meegan, convicted of killing his toddler daughter and then burning her body in the Arizona desert.

Los Angeles - Screening of recently found print of oldest feature film ever made, Shakespeare's "Richard III."

Page, Ariz. - Six condors released to holding pen in northern Arizona, to get them acclimated before they are rleased in December.

Sioux Falls, S.D. - New trial scheduled for Russell Hawkins, former Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribal chairman accused of conspiracy in case involving reselling of government surplus equipment.

Cairo, Egypt - Military court to issue verdicts in case of 16 suspected Muslim extremists accused of anti-government attacks in 1993 and 1994. Two others earlier convicted and sentenced to death.

Szeged, Hungary - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born "father of the H-bomb," receives honorary doctorate at university.

Paris - Dalai Lama visits French National Assembly.

Cape Town, South Africa - Former Police Commissioner Gen. Johan Coetzee appears under subpoena before the investigative unit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Helsinki, Finland - NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana visits. Through Oct. 31.

Washington - President Clinton travels to Ann Arbor, Mich., Denver and Phoenix.

Manassas, Va. - Sentencing of teen-agers convicted of shooting pellet gun at black family.

Boydton, Va. - Sentencing of two children, ages 11 and 13, for beating a 3-year-old girl so badly doctors had to remove part of her damaged brain.

Philadelphia - Ross Perot speaks at University of Pennsylvania.

Booneville, Ky. - Hearing scheduled in Woody Harrelson hemp case on whether the state's marijuana law is constitutional.

Belgrade, Yugoslavia - Four-party opposition campaign rally led by Vuk Draskovic.

New Delhi, India - British Labor Party politician Robin Cook begins four-day tour of India that will include a visit to Jammu-Kashmir state, where two Britons are among four Westerner kidnapped last year by separatists.

Arusha, Tanzania - Trial begins at International Criminal Tribunal of the first defendant accused of genocide in Rwanda.

Baton Rouge, La. - Ten thousand readers of romance novels expected for national Romantic Times Booklovers Convention. Thru Nov. 3.

Vukovar, Croatia - Joint Croatian-Serb border posts formed in eastern Croatia, separating Serb-controlled region from Serbia proper and moving one step closer to handing over the region to Croatian control.

Bergen, Norway - Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor joins 10th anniversary celebrations of the Rafto human rights foundation. Through Nov. 2.

Los Angeles - Pandering retrial of Heidi Fleiss.

Bucharest, Romania - Parliamentary and presidential elections.