It was a race for all or nothing in Mozambique on Sunday as all the three presidential candidates and political parties closed the 45-day electoral campaign.
Millions of Chinese Muslims celebrated the Corban Festival, or Eid al-Adha, on Sunday.
Some protesters decided on Sunday to withdraw from areas in Hong Kong as a good gesture for talks with the authorities, while secondary schools affected by the Occupy Central demonstration would resume classes on Monday.
About 9.1 million train trips were forecast to be made on Sunday, the fifth day of the National Day Holiday, up 10.9 percent from last year, the China Railway Corporation said on Sunday.
Four climbers among 31 in critical condition were confirmed dead late Sunday due to the Ontake volcano eruption on Saturday in central Japan, local report cited police as reporting.
The European Union (EU) on Sunday expressed great concern over the deadly bombing near the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in Cairo.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt declared his resignation on Sunday night amid disappointing results of his center-right government in the 2014 parliamentary election.
Arab foreign ministers agreed on Sunday to jointly act against extremist groups, particularly the Islamic State (IS), but did not clearly mention possible coordination with the United States, the official MENA reported.
At least eight people died and 10 more injured on Sunday in a road accident on a section of highway in Mexico's western state of Michoacan, local Civil Protection authorities said in a statement.
Racing Club handed a 2-0 defeat to Copa Libertadores champion San Lorenzo in the second matchday of Argentina's premiere league's Transicion Tournament on Sunday.
A taskforce headed by an official from the State Administration of Work Safety left Beijing on Sunday for the site of a deadly traffic accident that killed 44 in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Saturday.
Malaysia has stricken an agreement with Ukrainian rebels, who control the area around the MH17 crash site, to allow a group of international police personnel to enter the area to protect the international investigators, according to a statement issued by Prime Minister's office on Sunday.
The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that U.S. forces on Sunday captured a key figure suspected in the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012.
Sotheby's said on Thursday that it sees young Chinese collectors as a huge potential market for art collection.
Two Chinese national contractors with Chinese copper mining company Wanbao, kidnapped in Latpadaungtaung copper mine project area in Myanmar's Monywa Sunday, were released Monday evening, the company said.
Hollywood filmmaker Tommy Lee Jones on Sunday presented his film "The Homesman" in Competition at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, along with another movie by Italian woman director Alice Rohrwacher.
Some 135 Chinese workers who were injured in the anti-China riots in Vietnam's central Ha Tinh province have been flown home Sunday morning, a Chinese embassy official said.
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