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.
Rescuers have found 33 dead bodies and keep searching for dozens of others feared missing after the sinking of an Australian-bound asylum seeker boat off West Java island, Indonesia.
A disgruntled employee opened shots in broad daylight at a car wash where he worked in Houston area Sunday, killing one people and injuring two others.
The German engineering giant Siemens plans to cut 15,000 jobs, including 5,000 in Germany, by autumn 2014, a spokesman said on Sunday.
Nigeria's militant sect Boko Haram has killed at least 85 people in five days in the Muslim-dominated north of the West African country.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that the National Security Agency, the main US government surveillance organization, has since 2010 used data it gathered to map some US citizens' "social connections that can identify their associates.
Gunmen killed at least 40 people on Sunday in an attack on a college in northeast Nigeria, a Reuters witness said, in a region where Islamist militants have targeted schools and universities.
US President Barack Obama and new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held the historic phone call on Friday, in the highest level conversation between the estranged nations in more than three decades.
U.S. House of Representatives voted in the early hours of Sunday to pass a short-term government funding bill proposed by Republican leaders to fund the federal government's operations through December 15 and delay the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, for one year.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that the US National Security Agency had since 2010 used data it gathered to map some Americans' "social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times and other personal information."
At least 15 people were killed on Saturday when an aftershock hit a Pakistani province where hundreds were killed in an major earthquake earlier this week.
People light candles during a memorial service in front of WestGate shopping centre in Nairobi Sept 28, 2013 in honor of the victims of last Saturday's attack by gunmen.
The death toll in the residential building collapse in Mumbai has reached 43 by Saturday, while 32 people were injured in the incident.
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