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.
At least 100 people were killed in the latest clashes between Messiria and Salamat tribes in Sudan's Darfur region, official Sudan Radio reported Saturday.
Chinese and US military personnel demonstrated in joint exercises in Hawaii on Thursday how they could cooperate for disaster relief.
Iranian foreign minister said Friday that if his country's nuclear rights are not recognized in the nuclear talks, there would be no chance of success for the negotiations, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
No imminent signs were detected yet on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s another nuclear test though Pyongyang seemed to be prepared to conduct its fourth nuclear test at any time.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday dismissed news reports that it had sent air force pilots to Syria to attack rebel forces.
The first China-US Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) live troop exercises ended on Thursday in a US Marine Corps training area on the east side of Oahu in Hawaii.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure on Thursday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a super typhoon.
The Syrian government re-controlled the town of Hajjira in the countryside of Damascus after dislodging the country's rebels, while it said it would seriously attend the Geneva II conference on Syria.
Shanghai-born Yan Jun (L), 26, receives a certificate of appreciation from Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his rescue work in saving a nine-year-old boy from a typhoon-swollen river in Osaka on September 16, 2013, at Abe's official residence in Tokyo November 13, 2013.
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced his retirement from politics on Wednesday night with a speech in the House of Representatives.
The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has risen to 2,275 Wednesday, said Eduardo del Rosario, the executive director of National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
The two furry cubs, who are the fourth and fifth cubs born in the zoo to 15-year-old Lun Lun and her partner, Yang Yang, were the first panda twins born in the US.