Francois Hollande has won the French presidential election against the Nicolas Sarkozy in the final polling, according to all available exit polls and partial official counts of ballots from the interior ministry by Sunday night.

Unrest-stricken Syria kicked off a parliamentary election on Monday, with 7,195 candidates from 12 political parties vying for 250 seats.

Source: Website www.aseanconsumer.org.The ASEAN Committee for Consumer Protection (ACCP) has launched a new website, www.aseanconsumer.org, to help consumers with recalled or banned products, explain the compensation mechanism and provide general information.

The clock is ticking for the incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy as the campaign is to officially end by midnight Friday and his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande remains on top of all polls for Sunday's runoff.

Illustrative image (Source:Internet)The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) officially launched its largest financing initiative, the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund (AIF), on May 3 in the Filipino capital Manila , on the sidelines of the ASEAN Development Bank’s (ADB) 45 th Annual Meeting.

Leader of the research team Javier Martinez-Picado explained that his team had found the molecule which allows the AIDS virus to travel like a "Trojan horse" and invade dendritic cells, which are those responsible for activating the body's immune system.