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.
Heavy rain at the Fukushima nuclear plant has caused a leak of radioactive water containing a cancer-causing isotope, possibly into the sea, its operator said,
Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli started an official visit to Singapore on Monday to strengthen ties between China and the Southeast Asian nation.
Three people have been killed in an apartment building fire in the central city of Karaganda, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan said.
Photo released by Syria's state-run SANA news agency on Oct 20, 2013 shows the suicide blast site in Hama, Syria.
The United States has quietly restarted security assistance to Pakistan after freezing much of that aid during a period of strained relations beginning with the 2011 Navy SEAL raid.
The Canadian National Railway train carrying petroleum crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas derailed west of Edmonton, Alberta, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said on Oct 19.
Four Chinese students were drowned on Friday when they were swimming in the sea of Marsa Matrouh, an Egypt's northwestern coastal city, Chinese Embassy confirmed to Xinhua on Sunday.
Canada will continue to welcome Chinese investment and has taken concrete steps to facilitate capital inflow to further strengthen economic interdependence with China, Canadian Governor General David Johnston said.
JPMorgan Chase & Co has reached a tentative $13 billion agreement with the US Justice Department to settle government investigations into bad mortgage loans the bank sold to investors before financial crisis, a source said.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left New Delhi Sunday for a five-day visit to Russia and China.
Japanese Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission Keiji Furuya on Sunday morning paid a visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, despite Japan's scratched relations with neighboring countries.
At least 99 people were injured in a train crash at a Buenos Aires commuter rail station on Saturday, officials said.
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