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.
During London's damp and chilly days of November, the ubiquitous red Flanders poppies are eye-catching.
The CIA is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to provide phone records for overseas counter-terrorism investigations, the New York Times reported, quoting government officials.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) alleged Thursday it had arrested a South Korean spy here and an investigation was underway.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and other politicians in the country welcomed a major agreement reached Wednesday between the government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Swiss scientists found evidence suggesting Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with a radioactive substance, a TV station reported Wednesday.
"We were hoping that we'd be in a position to announce a date today; unfortunately we're not," UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry waded again into the nitty-gritty of faltering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on Wednesday, saying he was optimistic that tensions and difficulties could be overcome, even as Israel's leader bashed the Palestinians for the poor state of negotiations.
Democrats retook Republican strongholds in New York's city hall and the Virginia governor's mansion on Tuesday, while a Republican with potential presidential hopes won reelection easily in New Jersey.
Japanese Cabinet is expected make a decision on whether to revise the government's stance on Japan's right to exercise collective self-defense.
Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf was freed late Wednesday two days after a court granted him bail in the murder case of the deputy chief of Islamabad's Red Mosque, who was killed in a military raid in 2007, his lawyer said.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood failed in an attempt on Wednesday to overturn a court ruling banning it, the state news agency said, another blow to the debilitated Islamist movement.
A 5-magnitude quake jolted the bordering area between China and India at 12:16 pm Wednesday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
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