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.
One man of Chinese nationality has been dead while building sewer pipes in Seoul, South Korea's capital.
The ROK and the DPRK on Monday started the third round of working-level talks at the Kaesong Industrial complex to discuss normalizing operation of the joint industrial zone.
A week after the heart of the Quebec village of Lac-Megantic was devastated in one of the worst train accidents in Canadian history, the St. Agnes church bell rang 50 times on Saturday, once for each person believed to have died.
Snowden possesses data that could prove far more "damaging" to the US government that he has chosen not to release, said a journalist who broke the story.
Prominent liberal politician Mohamed ElBaradei was sworn in on Sunday as Egypt's vice-president for international relations in the interim government, official news agency MENA reported.
A 16-meter long whale was found dead with an advanced state of decay on the Lobito coast of Angola's central Benguela province possibly due to collision with large ships shuttling in the region.
Violence flared for a second night around traditional Orange Day parades in Northern Ireland, with police coming under attack from petrol bombs, fireworks, stones and bottles and responding with water cannon.
Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi is under a criminal investigation while the a new cabinet is taking shape, officials said Saturday.
ElBaradei sworn in as Egypt's interim VP
At least 27 people were killed and 77 others wounded in separate violent attacks across Iraq on Saturday, including a bombing attack against a Sunni mosque in the capital city, police said.
Thirty-one survivors of a fatal plane crash that occurred in San Francisco on July 6 returned to China on Saturday.
The death toll of last Saturday's Asiana Airlines crash increased to three after another Chinese girl died in the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Friday.
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday he is confident that ailing anti- apartheid icon Nelson Mandela will be discharged from hospital following improvement in his health.
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