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.
Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday to keep US-sponsored peacemaking on course for a second round of talks, but diplomacy remained dogged by Israeli plans for more Jewish homes on land the Palestinians claim for a future state.
Twenty-six Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arrived in the West Bank City of Ramallah and the Gaza Strip early Wednesday.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said on Tuesday that he will visit Beijing later this year to personally apologize to Chinese consumers over the Fonterra milk botulism scare.
Fidel Castro goes about his daily activities out of the public eye, and how much influence the retired leader still wields is unknown.
California on Monday became the first US state to enshrine certain rights for transgender students from kindergarten to the 12th grade in state law.
As more Chinese teenagers go abroad to study, the business of hosting them is booming in the United States.
A general view of Stonehenge during the annual Perseid meteor shower in the night sky in Salisbury Plain, southern England August 13, 2013.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday appointed Haoliang Xu of China as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
The Republic of Korea's top nuclear envoy departed for Moscow on Tuesday for talks over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear issue.
The Fonterra botulism scare has "exploded" New Zealand's "100 percent Pure" marketing brand, which was already being undermined by the government.
Johan Friso, the Dutch prince who avoided the limelight and gave up his position in line to the throne after getting entangled in a scandal with his bride-to-be, died Monday.
The Brazilian government announced it had again postponed the bidding process for a bullet train project that links the country's two largest cities.
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