Retired economics professor Alexander Van der Bellen edged out anti-immigrant populist candidate Norbert Hofer by just more than 31,000 votes — 0.6 percent of the vote.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for bombings in Tartus and Jableh, strongholds of Bashar Assad's regime.

During a visit to Hanoi, President Obama announced an end to the five-decades-long ban on selling weapons to Vietnam.

Mullah Akhtar Mansour was a divisive figure within the Taliban, and the Afghan government saw him as an obstacle to peace.

"The methods by which they guide public opinion are very sophisticated — they're way more sophisticated than anybody realized," Harvard professor Gary King says.

Egypt's president says the submarine is heading to the area where the plane went down on Thursday. He cautions that determining what caused the crash could take "a lot of time."

British forces are already conducting strikes in Iraq. The motion is expected to pass with the support of the ruling Conservative Party. But first, MPs will spend 10 hours swapping fierce rhetoric.

The win by Mauricio Macri ends the 12-year rule of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's Peronist Party. Macri, the former mayor of Buenos Aires, promised to roll back some of Kirchner's policies.

In an interview, Donald Trump said people in New Jersey — "where you have large Arab populations" — were cheering when the Twin Towers came down. Police, however, have said it did not happen.

Jason Rezaian has been accused by the country of espionage. A judiciary spokesman said a sentence had been handed down, but refused to say anything more.