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.
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday scaled down a long-planned trip to Asia, as a US government shutdown entered a second day with no end in sight to the funding row in Congress that triggered it.
The spate of rapes continues in India -- this time, two schoolgirls have been raped in two incidents in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh Tuesday night.
Republic of Korea and the United States agreed on Wednesday to take preemptive measures with all military capabilities available if signs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear strikes are detected, Yonhap News Agency reported Wednesday.
On the first day of US federal government shutdown, a Californian resident may not feel the impact, but many Chinese tourists are sad and their tour guides are nervous.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday urged to close down the "UN Command" on the Korean Peninsula, saying it serves the "US military strategy" by "abusing the name of the United Nations."
The unprecedented shutdown - the first in 17 years - that could put more than 800,000 federal workers on unpaid leave, came after the US Congress failed to find a compromise on a bill to fund govt operations. 
Chinese tourists affected by US govt shutdown
US Senate rejects motion bover govt shutdown
US govt to shutdown after negotiations fail
The US Senate voted on Tuesday to reject a motion to meet with the House on the issue of funding the government, despite the government shutdown starting at the midnight.
The US federal government was due to start partially shutting down on Tuesday after lawmakers failed to compromise on an emergency spending bill.
A woman rope jumps from a 44-metre high waterpipe bridge in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia, September 29, 2013.
The ROK and the DPRK opened a permanent committee secretariat on Kaesong complex to prevent work stoppage of the inter-Korean factory park.
Five people were killed and two others were injured in a rear-end collision between two trucks in the US state of Texas Sunday.
The death toll from a car bomb explosion in an ancient market in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar rose to at least 42 on Monday.
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