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 head of a Japanese constitutional watchdog suggested on Friday that it would not block a bid by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to ease constraints on the country's military.
Islamist protests descended into a bloodbath across Egypt on Friday, with more than 100 killed on a "Day of Rage" called by followers of ousted President Mohamed Mursi to denounce a crackdown by the army-backed government.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday principally approved the proposed alignment of Pak-China Trade Corridor, with the directions to further evaluate the proposal in terms of time and cost efficiency, officials said.
The Interior Ministry warned Thursday that the police are going to use live ammunition against any further attacks on public or private properties, amid fresh calls by the Islamists to continue mass protests.
The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned a deadly car bombing in Beirut, capital of Lebanon, which killed at least 17 people and wounded about 212.
Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began downloading documents describing the US government's electronic spying programs while he was working for Dell Inc in April 2012, almost a year earlier than previously reported.
Harvey Meek of the Aerostars Aerobatic Team pilots his plane past the Chicago Skyline before the 55th Chicago Air and Water Show, near Gary, Indiana, August 15, 2013. The Chicago Air and Water Show will be held on Saturday and Sunday.
Dawn broke, shortly after 5 am, over a political heart of darkness. The sun's rays cast an unflattering light on the shadow world of Japanese militarism in its pomp and glory at the Yasukuni Shrine.
There is one place in Japan where the emperor dare not go. It is a supreme irony, because it is the place where he would be most welcomed and that his prime ministers and members of the cabinet often visit.
Weeping relatives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied, unclaimed dead, as the death toll soared past 600 Thursday from Egypt's deadliest day since the Arab Spring began.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend theG20 Summit to be held in Russia and will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the summit.
The projections, based on new computer models and reviewing what the scientists said was an "exceptional number of extreme heatwaves" in the past decade, are more alarming than the conclusions of the U.N. panel of climate scientists last year.
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