The Independent World Commission on Oceans conference is scheduled to open at Rotterdam's World Trade Center.
Topics are to include ecological measures to protect marine life.
Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss is scheduled for retrial on pandering charges. Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso is scheduled to visit South Africa. Sotheby's is scheduled to auction a 16th-century atlas by Gerard Mercator, inventor of Mercator's projection. On the horizon On Wednesday, November 27, the second ministerial conference on the management of fish stocks in the Mediterranean Sea is to be held in Venice, Italy. On Thursday, November 28, Greece's main GSEE labor confederation is scheduled to stage a one-day strike to protest economic austerity.