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.
The New Zealand Police have launched a homicide investigation after a 37-year-old Chinese woman was killed after dropping her two children at school in a Wellington suburb.
An Egyptian court ruled a three-month state of emergency be lifted on Tuesday, a step that may help the army-backed government restore a semblance of normality after the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi.
Saudi Arabia, in an unprecedented moved, formally rejected on Tuesday its two-year term on the UN Security Council, clearing the way for Jordan to take the seat as a replacement.
A head-on collision between a bus and a truck killed at least 29 people and injured dozens of others in South Africa on Monday night
A rebel movement in oil-rich eastern Libya said Sunday it had formed a regional oil firm to manage the production and sales of oil and gas, challenging the central government and its revenue lifeline.
A Russian court on Monday sentenced three people involved in a terror attack on the Moscow Domodedovo airport in 2001 to life imprisonment.
The Syrian National Coalition said on Monday that it agreed to join the Geneva II conference on condition that President Bashar al-Assad play no role in a transitional governing body.
The annual UN global climate talks started Monday amid hopes progress will be made toward the signing of a new climate deal by 2015, however no major breakthrough is expected.
China on Monday suggested that the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) respond to legitimate demands of local Chinese community to openly apologize for the broadcast of offensive program.
The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, arrived in Tehran Monday to hold talks with Iran after the country and six world powers failed to reach an agreement in Geneva last weekend.
American Broadcasting Company (ABC) has apologized for its airing of a talkshow segment which has been widely considered racism among the Chinese community, ABC's spokesperson confirmed exclusively to Xinhua on Sunday.
The Syrian opposition coalition has conditionally agreed to attend Geneva II conference designed to end the country's bloody confict.
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