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 British government will lay out plans to privatize the Royal Mail in a 3 billion pounds share offering that will see tens of thousands of workers get a stake in the company.
The Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea agreed Wednesday to hold the third round of working-level talks next Monday.
A group of runners fall in front of Victoriano del Rio fighting bulls and steers as they take the Estafeta curve during the fourth running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival.
A general view of the royal baby inspired "Suite Dreams Nursery" at the Grosvenor House Hotel Park Lane, as the UK prepares for the birth of the first child of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in London, England on July 9, 2013.
The snow-covered Popocatepetl volcano spews a cloud of steam into the air in Puebla July 9, 2013.
"Kilikis", wearing outsized masks and playfully hitting bystanders with sponges on sticks, parade daily through the city accompanied by brass bands during the nine-day-long festival made popular by US writer Ernest Hemingway.
Buddhist monks pray for justice, after the bombing of Bodh Gaya shrine in India, in a peace rally outside the United Nations building in Bangkok July 10, 2013.
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is due in court on Wednesday to face charges in the worst mass-casualty attack on US soil since September 11, 2001.
Residents pass the time in a bamboo cell called the "Special Prayer Room", where they are locked in for their first week at the Youth for Christ Centre for heroin addicts, near Naung Chein in Myanmar's Kachin state July 5, 2013.
The Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ended the morning plenary session of the follow-up working-level talks.
Afghan police have eliminated two dozen Taliban militants in the operations across the country, said authorities on Wednesday.
Brazil said Tuesday it had no intention to grant political asylum to US whistleblower Edward Snowden who disclosed a vast program of US world electronic surveillance.