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.
South Africa will launch its third satellite into space next month to observe the earth for research purposes, authorities said on Saturday.
At least 78 people were killed and 166 others wounded in a wave of violent attacks across Iraq on Saturday, the police and local media said.
Two terrorists were killed by security forces in Egypt's northern province of Qalyubiya on Saturday, official news agency MENA reported.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday he supported Iran's diplomatic efforts at the U.N. General Assembly in New York last week but said some of what occurred there was "not fitting," Iranian media reported.
The shutdown of the U.S. government is a "momentary episode" and does not change the U.S. commitment to Asia or elsewhere, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday.
Several tornadoes hit central U.S. states of Iowa and Nebraska Friday evening, causing considerable property damage.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is reviewing additional information received from Syria on its chemical weapons stockpiles, a UN spokesman said here Friday.
The international community should enhance cooperation on migration, and give the issue due attention when drafting the post-2015 development agenda, a Chinese envoy to UN said Friday
A man set himself on fire Friday afternoon on the National Mall in the U.S. capital, local police confirmed.
The United States held out the possibility on Thursday of giving Iran some short-term sanctions relief in return for concrete steps to slow uranium enrichment and shed light on its nuclear program.
Chile declared a state of emergency on Thursday after a late frost due to unusually low temperatures caused widespread damage to fruit crops in central Chile, potentially hitting wine production in one of South America 's top fruit exporters.
Pakistani and Indian military officers will meet soon to explore options to lessen border tensions in the disputed Kashmir region, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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