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.
The US National Zoo's panda team gave a newly born panda cub its first neonatal exam on Sunday morning, and found it healthy.
Japan is mulling introducing a new law that will set legal procedures and make it mandatory to gain the Diet's approval before exercising the right of collective self-defense.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who helped Bill Gates transform the company from a tiny startup into the world's most valuable business, announced plans on Friday to retire sometime in the next year.
Syria agreed on Sunday to let the United Nations inspect the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, but a US official said such an offer was "too late to be credible".
The US National Zoo's panda team gave a newly born panda cub its first neonatal exam on Sunday morning, and found it healthy, said the zoo authorities.
The prime minister of Singapore arrived in Beijing on Sunday for his fifth official visit to China amid high expectations from both sides that bilateral ties will be upgraded.
The United Nations said on Sunday its experts would start their probe of an alleged Syrian chemical weapons site on Monday.
A passenger plane overshot the runway at Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Sunday, but no injuries were reported, local media said.
Three leaders of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the movement's former arch-foe Hosni Mubarak faced separate trials on Sunday on similar charges of involvement in the killing of protesters.
Syria will give UN inspectors access to the site of the recent alleged chemical attack in the country.
Egypt's army-backed government shortened a night-time curfew by two hours on Saturday, 10 days after imposing it during a fierce crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood protesters in Cairo.
Indian police Saturday arrested the third suspect in the gang rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist, as calls remained unabated across the country for tougher measures against rapists.
Second suspect of Mumbai gangrape arrested
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