BBC Monitoring News Diary for Thursday 7 July 2005.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Main stories at 0100 gmt

UK/OLYMPICS: Continuing to watch reaction to London's surprise victory in contest to stage 2012 Olympic Games (French, Russian, Spanish sources)

UK/G8: First full day of talks at G8 summit meeting in Scotland expected to focus on climate change; Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet on sidelines (Japanese news agency Kyodo, regional sources)

Asia-Pacific

SINGAPORE: Bulgaria's suspended Olympic Committee chief Ivan Slavkov expected to attend International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting, where members due to vote on whether to expel him from organization; Slavkov was filmed in 2004 by undercover BBC crew discussing how votes could be bought in bid for 2012 Olympics; Slavkov, who maintains his innocence, has said he will present new evidence (Bulgarian Sofia Morning News web site)

CHINA: Delegation from Taiwan's pro-unification New Party continues visit (13); trip follows historic visits to mainland by Taiwan opposition party leaders Lien Chan of Kuomintang (KMT), and James Soong of People First Party (PFP); New Party has only one seat in Taiwan's legislature (Russian news agency ITAR-TASS)

PHILIPPINES: Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka wraps up …