Initial poll count on Wednesday shows that Egypt's former military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will sweep the presidential election with an overwhelming majority of votes.
Twenty five people were killed and up to 45 others wounded in a minibus bomb attack in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala on Thursday, a provincial governor and police said.
French police have arrested a man they suspect shot a newspaper employee and fired at a bank this week, saying he had been jailed in the 1990s for his role in another Paris shootout that killed three policemen.
At least five people were killed and 20 others injured when a blast hit a market area in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Thursday morning, reported local Urdu TV channel Geo.
Two bears make a splash as they fight over dinner. The grizzly situation unfolded after one of the bears caught a tasty salmon while the other had struggled to catch anything at all.
President Barack Obama joined with Bill and Hillary Clinton on Wednesday to recognize the legacy of John F. Kennedy, the president who inspired a generation until he was felled by an assassin's bullets 50 years ago this week.
White supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin has been put to death in Missouri. It was the state's first execution in nearly three years.
China, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan will hold their third round of trilateral talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) next week, Seoul's Trade Ministry said Wednesday.
US President Barack Obama's job approval rating dropped to its all-time low, while the opposition to his signature healthcare overhaul hit record high, according to a new Washington Post-ABC poll released on Tuesday.
In solemnity, thousands gathered on a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted would not be long remembered.
World stock markets mostly edged lower on Tuesday after the OECD cut its global economic growth forecasts, raising concerns that a recent rally may be overdone.
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Tuesday that she would not dissolve the House of Representatives or step down in the face of anti-government protests.
The death toll of the strong storms that struck Italy's western island of Sardinia rose to 16 on Tuesday while one person was still missing, local reports said.
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