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 5.8 magnitude quake hit Japan's Fukushima Prefecture at 2:25 a.m., local time, with strong tremor felt in Tokyo.
Thirteen people have been shot at a park on Chicago's southwest side, including a 3-year-old boy who was in critical condition.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday it was essential that a Russia-US deal on eradicating Syria's chemical weapons arsenal be enforced.
While sanctions continue to heap upon the "hermit state" of the DPRK, an Australian expert has questioned their efficacy in the face of ongoing human rights abuses, warning that sanctions "only breed hatred".
President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday it would cost about $1 billion to get rid of Syria's chemical weapons under a plan agreed to by Russia and the United States last week.
US President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service Sunday to honor the victims of Monday's shooting rampage at Washington Navy Yard.
A new privately owned US spaceship carrying food, clothing and other cargo blasted off Wednesday on a demonstration mission to the ISS.
Brazilian President postponed a state visit to the US, the most serious diplomatic fallout yet from Edward Snowden's leak of Washington's spying secrets.
Coffee chain Starbucks Corp has asked customers in the United States to leave their guns at home, after being dragged into an increasingly fractious debate over gun rights in the wake of multiple mass shootings.
Malaysia eyes to send its second batch of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2016 to carry out numerous research。
Devotees carry an idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, during a procession through the streets on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai.
Some districts in northern province of Lamphun and central Ayutthaya province in Thailand have been flooded after continued heavy rain.
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