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.
Ailing former South African president Nelson Mandela is now breathing normally, his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said.
Syrian authorities have taken the rare step of denying media reports of an attack on President Bashar al-Assad's motorcade as he travelled to a mosque to mark a Muslim holiday.
Islamist supporters of ousted Morsi continued to demand his restoration after the military-led authorities that removed him held off from carrying out a threat to clear protest sit-ins by force.
The New York Times is not for sale, the newspaper reported its controlling family and publisher as saying, after a week in which The Boston Globe and The Washington Post were bought by new owners.
Russia's granting of temporary amnesty to former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden should not be allowed to affect Moscow-Washington ties, a Russian lawmaker said Thursday.
A grenade-wielding gunman in Texas killed at least four people after going on a shooting rampage in the Dallas area on Wednesday night.
The United States on Wednesday launched a new military satellite into the orbit, the latest of a communications network shared by Washington and its Western allies.
The Czech cabinet led by Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok failed to win a vote of confidence in parliament on Wednesday and Rusnok said he would resign on Thursday or Friday.
The United States and the European Union (EU) on Wednesday expressed concern about the " dangerous stalemate" in Egypt, as the country's interim president announced failed foreign mediation efforts.
Officials in Philadelphia of US cleared a US Airways flight of hazardous material Wednesday, after it made an emergency landing over an alleged bomb threat.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is eager to fast-track policies that will improve his country's cooperation with China, particularly in infrastructure, to revive Pakistan's economy.
The strained China-Japan relationship is the most telling witness to how Japan's diplomatic policies have been held hostage by its domestic politics.
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