Egyptians queued patiently to vote yesterday, eager to pick their leader for the first time in a national history dating to the pharaohs, with Islamists and secular-minded rivals who served under deposed President Hosni Mubarak heading the field.
US voters are nearly evenly divided between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, with five months to go before the election, polls show.
oviedo: A miner stands in front of burning barricades on the A-66 motorway, on the first day of a strikes to protest against the government's spending cuts in the mining sector, in Pola de Lena, near Oviedo, northern Spain.
A South African court has found a black farm worker guilty of murdering Eugene Terre'blanche, a white supremacist prominent during the dying years of apartheid, after a dispute over wages.
ONTARIO: A man survived a plunge of at least 180ft over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt – only the third person known to have lived after going over the falls without a safety device.
At least 24 people were killed and dozens injured when a passenger train rammed into parked freight wagons and caught fire in southern India yesterday.
Yemeni leaders led a sombre ceremony yesterday to mark the country's National Day, scaling back celebrations a day after a suicide bombing killed nearly 100 soldiers in a rehearsal for a military parade.