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.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi that imposing a military solution to the Syrian crisis would only destabilize the country and the Middle East.
Japan has asked the United States to quickly provide information on an MV-22 Osprey military plane that made a hard landing in Nevada.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said Wednesday that he would embark on a one-day visit to China to attend the opening of the 10th China-ASEAN Expo.
New Zealand food safety regulators on Wednesday said the bacteria that sparked an international alert over Fonterra dairy products was not the bacterium that can cause botulism.
The Arab League (AL) on Tuesday said it held the Syrian administration "fully responsible" for the deadly chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus.
A waitress presents the official Oktoberfest beer mug during a presentation in Munich August 27, 2013.
Twerking, the rump-busting up-and-down dance move long beloved on America's hip-hop scene, has officially gone mainstream.
The United States will send its human rights envoy to Pyongyang this week to seek the release of an imprisoned US Christian missionary, the State Department said on Tuesday.
The US and its allies were gearing up on Tuesday for a probable military strike against Syria that could happen within days as punishment for last week's chemical weapons attacks.
Japan's coast guard sought a fiscal budget of $2 billion for 2014 on Tuesday, to upgrade its patrol ships and increase personnel around the Diaoyu Islands.
IOC officials preparing for the meeting in Buenos Aires have publicly downplayed the renewed concerns over the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima nuclear power plant despite it leaking more than 300 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
South Africa's ailing former president Nelson Mandela is still in hospital receiving treatment and remains in a critical but stable condition.