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.
People look at a section of the a 360 degree panoramic picture of the historic Battle of the Nations in Leipzig August 2, 2013.
A Russian coal freight train arrived at northeast China's border city of Hunchun on Friday, marking the resumption of freight railway service between China and Russia.
Iran's president-elect Hassan Rouhani said Friday that the Islamic world should unite to confront the "Zionist regime" of Israel.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday called on ASEAN countries to join hands with China to further deepen and enrich their cooperation following 10 years of strategic partnership.
President Barack Obama spoke separately by phone to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as the United States seeks to keep up the momentum for peace negotiations.
Egypt's military-backed government offered protection Thursday to supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi who end their two sit-ins _ widely seen as a first step toward dispersing the vigils on opposite sides of Cairo.
For the first time in decades of criminal prosecution, a conviction against former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi finally stuck on Thursday, leaving the media mogul with a four-year prison sentence for tax fraud with all of his appeals exhausted.
Fleeing US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has received temporary asylum in Russia for one year, and has moved to a safe place, a lawyer assisting him said Thursday.
High-level talks between Russia and the US scheduled for next week in Washington are "up in the air" and a September summit also is in doubt after Russia granted asylum to Snowden.
Russia grants Snowden 1 year's asylum Special
Three female teachers were abducted when gunmen stormed an elementary school in Benin City, capital of southern Nigeria's Edo State, local police said on Thursday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's leader Kim Jong-un walks with the women's national soccer team, who won the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) East Asian Cup championship last week.
Researchers based in the western Japanese city of Kobe started on Thursday a pilot study that uses human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to regenerate human retinas.
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