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 second suspect of the Mumbai gangrape case was arrested by local police and the remaining three are still being hunted, local media CNN-IBN reported Saturday. 22-year-old photojournalist gang raped in Mumbai
The United States reflects on one of the turning points of its recent history, starting this weekend, when it marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington.
The front-runner for Australia's Sept 7 election would pay Indonesians for unseaworthy boats to stop them from ending up in the hands of people-smugglers, as part of a plan unveiled on Friday.
The Israeli air force struck a Palestinian group in Lebanon on Friday, officials said, hours after a different organization said it fired four rockets at the Jewish state from Lebanon.
The number of children who have fled war-torn Syria hit 1 million on Friday, while 2 million children have been displaced within their homeland's borders by the conflict, the United Nations said.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday agreed to hold reunion of families separated by the Korean War (1950-53) for six days from Sept. 25 in Mount Kumgang.
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday new spots of high radiation had been found near storage tanks holding highly contaminated water.
US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Thursday that the US stance on the Diaoyu Islands is unchanged.
The United Nations demanded Syria give its chemical weapons experts immediate access on Thursday to rebel-held Damascus suburbs where poison gas appears to have killed hundreds just a few miles from the UN team's hotel.
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was flown from jail on Thursday in a symbolic victory for an army-dominated old order that has overthrown and imprisoned his freely elected Islamist successor.
US stocks closed higher on Thursday after Nasdaq suspended trading of all stocks for about three hours.
New Zealand's top diplomat assured China of his country's "total and absolute" commitment to food safety on Thursday, following its recent milk powder scandal.
NZ-China ties remain strong: FM