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.
Two US Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft joined in military exercises between the US Marine Corps and Japan's Self-Defense Forces for the first time in the western Japanese prefecture of Shiga.
The US Senate prepared for a last ditch effort Wednesday to avoid a historic lapse in the government's borrowing authority, a breach that Obama has said could lead to default and deliver a damaging blow to the global economy.
A once-in-a-decade typhoon threatened Japan on Tuesday, disrupting travel and shipping and forcing precautions to be taken at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The death toll from an earthquake in the Philippines rose to 144 on Wednesday as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings including an old church and a hospital.
Iran on Tuesday laid out a hotly awaited proposal to break the deadlock in talks with world powers over its nuclear program.
US Senate leaders were nearing a deal on Tuesday in talks to reopen the US government and prevent a default on American debt that economists say could tip the global economy back into recession.
Sino-Japanese relations are unlikely to improve anytime soon if Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's speech to his country's parliament is any indication.
A cargo ship carrying 19 people sank in South Korea's Pohang harbor amid a storm at around 21:30 local time on Tuesday, leaving 9 dead and 2 missing.
The illuminated Potsdamer square is pictured during the "Festival of Light" show in Berlin October 14, 2013.
A small plane carrying 14 people has been missing in northwestern Mexican state of Baja California Sur.
A magnitude-7.2 quake that jolted central part of the Philippines on Tuesday has cut power and caused panic several hundred of kilometers from the epicenter.
The row over a decision by US space agency NASA to ban Chinese researchers from a forthcoming conference on exoplanet research should be served as a wake-up call for some US legislators, a US expert said.
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