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.
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit South and Southwest Pakistan on Saturday afternoon, local media quoted the country's meteorological officials as saying.
Senior White House officials arrived in Detroit with 300 million dollars in federal and private aid to help deal with the largest municipal bankruptcy in history.
A five-storey apartment block collapsed on Friday in the Indian financial centre of Mumbai, killing at least thirteen people.
India and Pakistan troops Friday fired at each other's positions on the line-of-control (LoC) in Kashmir, officials said.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta will call a confidence vote in parliament after a showdown with center-right partners in his fragile coalition scuppered a vital package of budget measures on Friday and took his government to the brink of collapse.
Iran resumed payments on old loans to the World Bank, the bank said on Friday, just as the country held the highest level conversation with the United States in more than three decades.
Allison displays her tattoos during the ninth London Tattoo Convention in London.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that China hoped to see an early launch of international verification and destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons and an early end to the Syrian crisis.
Russia and the United States agreed late Thursday on a UN Security Council draft resolution to eliminate chemical weapons from Syria.
"Walk a mile in her shoes" charity event is held to raise awareness and funds for the White Ribbon Campaign to end violence against women.
A Japanese vessel capsized early Friday after collided with a Sierra Leone-registered cargo 11 km west off Japan's Izu Oshima, about 100 km south of Tokyo, according to local media.
Russia is ready to safeguard the sites for destroying Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, a senior Russian diplomat said on Thursday.
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