Egyptian president heads to Riyadh for meeting aimed at 'bolstering strategic relations' between the two powers.
The far-right female National Front leader will go head-to-head with the 39-year-old favourite to win the presidency.
Britain is working to strengthen its economic and political ties with the Commonwealth.
Decapitation comes hours after troops killed three Abu Sayyaf fighters on the run on the resort island of Bohol.
Exit polls show centrist and far-right leader winning most votes in cliffhanger of first round.
Two men abducted while hunting in southern Iraq relish their new-found freedom as they return home.
The 73-year-old conservation park owner was ambushed as armed cattle-herders search for scarce grazing land.
Al-Shabab claims deadly attack with improvised explosive device on a military pickup truck, 40km south of Bosasso.
Rhetoric rises as Pyongyang also warns Australia of a nuclear attack if it joins any US strike on the communist nation.
Prominent blogger and internet activist Yameen Rasheed was found with multiple stab wounds in stairway of his building.
Government forces retake the town of Halfaya near Hama city and push deeper into rebel-held areas of Damascus.
Ministers, army chiefs must resign for failing to provide security, Afghan public says following deadly base assault.
OSCE chairman calls for 'thorough investigation' after monitors' patrol hits roadside bomb in rebel-held Luhansk.
How did journalists not pre-empt the rise of the right and to what end should a platform be afforded to its leaders?
Was the referendum contested on an unlevel playing field and how did the media participate in the outcome?
Amid regional tensions, Korean-American aid worker reportedly arrested on Friday while trying to leave North Korea.
Any two of the four leading candidates could reach the second round in a vote that could determine the fate of the EU.
Fighters attack police base in Hamam al-Alil, south of Mosul, killing at least one police officer, Iraqi officials say,
As repression of anti-government protests continue, the human rights situation in Venezuela has deteriorated.
As campaigning gets under way, Al Jazeera speaks with six Iranian voters about their views on the upcoming election.
Hindu nationalism is dominating India by smothering minorities and encroaching on regional Hindu traditions.
A 72-year-old Finnish weightlifter who has won four world championships is determined to win one final title.
Palestinians living under occupation will 'continue to be further brutalised' by expansion of Israel's gas industry.
Kerala's Cheraman mosque points to a time of peaceful co-existence in an era when that seems increasingly under threat.
Deaths of fighters reported as government positions in Golan Heights are targeted for second time in recent days.
