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 school official says police have a suspect in custody after reports of a gunman at an Atlanta-area elementary school.
Israelis and Palestinians held a third round of negotiations on Tuesday, and Israel's chief representative at the talks predicted the US-brokered peace process would lead to dramatic Israeli decisions.
Chinese businesses will use the BRICS Business Council to push for more investment in Africa, so as to help the continent eradicate unemployment and poverty.
Seoul and Pyongyang threw cold water on the positive momentum of relations on the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, while China and other parties continued efforts to mediate between the two sides.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on Tuesday unveiled its new solid-fuel rocket Epsilon before its launch with a scientific satellite next week.
Japan and the United States plan to arrange a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Barack Obama on the fringes of the summit of G20 to be held in Russia.
An Australian man attending an Oklahoma college on a baseball scholarship was shot and killed over the weekend in what police described Monday as a random act of violence.
A man in western Ohio found nearly 300 pounds (136 kilos) of marijuana stuffed into a Mexican-made gun-storage safe that he recently purchased on the Internet.
A 16-year-old boy surfing along the east coast of Hawaii's Big Island was bitten in the legs by an 8-foot shark in the second such attack in the state in less than a week.
Somali Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Fowsia Yusuf Haji Adan will pay an official visit to China from August 22 to 28
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has raised the crisis alert in Egypt to level 4, the highest warning in its four-tier emergency advisory system.
General Guide of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie was arrested by police in Cairo, official news agency MENA reported early Tuesday.