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 United States has evacuated all non-emergency staff from its consulate in the Pakistani city of Lahore, citing "specific threats" amid a worldwide alert over al-Qaida intercepts.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd intensified a bitter war of words with Rupert Murdoch on Friday as the head of the media mogul's Australia arm quit in a shock move during an election campaign.
No separate meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama was planned at the upcoming Group of Twenty (G20) summit, a Kremlin aide said Friday.
The female panda Tian Tian may be pregnant, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said on Friday.
When a huge fire was gobbling Kenya's largest airport on Tuesday dawn, four vehicles from a neighboring Chinese company carrying workers and water rush to help contain the fire.
Most of the lost languages belonged to nomadic communities making up 3 to 4 percent of the Indian population, or some 50 million people.
British retail giant Tesco announced Friday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the China Resources enterprises (CRE) to create a leading multi-format retailer in China.
Balandin says he does not use blueprints and designs the parts as he works on them.
A rapidly spreading wildfire chewed through a rugged Southern California mountain range on Thursday, destroying more than two dozen homes.
The Israelis and Palestinians will start their second and third rounds of peace talks after they resumed the talks in Washington late July.
The United States on Thursday night ordered non-emergency staff from its consulate general in Lahore, Pakistan to leave, citing specific terror threats.
A US grand jury indicted two students from Kazakhstan on obstruction of justice charges, alleging they helped hide evidence related to the April Boston marathon bombing.