When it comes to prime-time delivery, USA is the proven summer leader both in key demographics and total viewers.

FORBES: Cable's Hot Summer

Since calling the election on May 23rd, Paul Martin, the prime minister and Liberal leader, has had to spend far more time in the province than his strategists had planned.

ECONOMIST: Canada's election

In an interview with a British newspaper around the time, Manuel Esquivel, the UDP leader and Belize's former prime minister, urged UK voters to beware.

BBC: Lord Ashcroft: controversial Tory donor

Outgoing Prime Minister Jan Fischer took over in May 2009 after the Civic Democrat leader at the time, Mirek Topolanek, was ousted during the Czech Republic's EU presidency.

BBC: Petr Necas in Prague, 28 June 2010

Their hawkish leader, Binyamin Netanyahu, who emerged shortly afterwards as prime minister for the second time, has been riding high.

ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine

Belgium apologised, for the first time, for the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba , Congo's independence leader and first prime minister.

ECONOMIST: Budgeting for security

Paul Keating, prime minister from 1991 to 1996, counted ex-President Suharto, Indonesia's dictatorial leader at the time, as a friend.

ECONOMIST: Australia