Elections

The MSCI Asia Pacific index, Hong Kong's Hang Seng and China's Shanghai Composite index all witnessed rises.

Left is likely to secure a comfortable lead if not a thumping victory in the parliamentary elections.

Internal Security Minister George Saitoti and his deputy Orwa Ojode are among seven people killed.

Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris, who attacked two female MPs in a live broadcast, allegedly hiding from police in the party's HQ.

Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party has a long track of terrorising immigrants, leftists and journalists - especially women.

Anti-Bashar al-Assad activists say they have found more than 70 bodies and point to Syrian security forces and regime loyalists as the killers.

Appointment follows mass expulsion of Western diplomats in tit-for-tat row amid ongoing violence.

Spain's fate in the euro area would top the agenda of discussions at the G7 emergency conference call.

It may sound as a fairy tale, but it happened in reality for the 19 year old Venezuelan girl, who was rewarded with a house by President Hugo Chavez - and the reason? She became his three millionth follower on the social networking site Twitter!

Assad blames the 'outside forces' for the current Syrian crisis and largely defended the regime.

Hosni Mubarak, first Arab leader to be tried in person, awaits a court verdict on his actions during the 2011 uprising.

Supporters of France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused of distributing fake pamphlets in Arabic to smear radical left opponent Jean-Luc Melenchon.

Egyptian activist accused of involvement in arson attack on campaign headquarters of Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq.

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe and Zambian counterpart Michael Sata honoured by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.

Alex Salmond, Scottish first minister and leader of the SNP, says Scotland will keep sterling if it gains independence - but there are a number of problems.

Iranian blogger and hunger striker Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, has written a letter to Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei fallowing the authorities' refusal to grant him medical leave despite his rapidly failing health.

Brian Parkin writing for Bloomberg on 24 May 2012, highlighted how Germany's sharp fall in jobless figures over the past few years is not only saving the nation a fortune but enhancing Chancellor Angela Merkel's reputation as a very safe pair of hands. He could have added "and defender of Germany's interests in an increasingly hostile European Union."

Protesters storm campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq and try to burn it down amid rising tensions on back of official results.

Greggs shares rocket after the UK government makes dramatic about-turn on controversial pasty tax.

Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi to face former prime minister under Mubarak's regime Ahmed Shafiq in a run-off for Egypt's presidential elections

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls for foreign intervention in Syria, while Russia and China blame both sides in conflict for massacre in Houla.

Preliminary results point to a run-off between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi and former military man Ahmed Shafiq.

IMF Chief Christine Lagarde says she is more worried about poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa than those facing poverty in Greece.

United Nations Human Rights chief Navi Pillay urges Western countries to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe and its president, Robert Mugabe.

Unofficial exit results of the Egyptian presidential elections suggest Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi and Mubarak's former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq are set to face each other in a run-off.

Antonis Perris was a 60-year-old Greek musician and his mother was 91 years' old.

Freedom and Justice Party's Mohamed Morsi ahead of 12 other candidates, including former Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa.

Prime Minister to allow free vote on same-sex marriage after recent opposition from backbenchers.

Opposition leaders Sergei Udaltsov and Alexi Navlny freed after serving 15-day prison sentences for roles in anti-Putin inauguration rally.

Natalia Juárez, 34, of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, posed semi-nude for with six other women for a "provocative, different and unprejudiced" campaign.