International press at a glance

BBC

People in Gaza and southern Israel are starting to return to normal life following Wednesday's ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Sky News

Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi has assumed sweeping new powers, drawing criticism that he is seeking to become a "new pharaoh".

CCN

U.S. President Barack Obama met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday, the first top-level meeting between the two countries since the presidential election and a power transition in China.

Los Angeles Times

India's execution Wednesday of the only surviving gunman in the 2008 attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people won't deter its ongoing effort to bring the planners to justice.

Al Jazeera

Fighters overrun army base in Deir Az-Zor, further weakening government's control in a strategic region bordering Iraq.

Sky News

A Chinese couple have found themselves living in the fast lane after refusing to move out for a new road.

The Guardian

Nicolas Sarkozy has been questioned by a judge over allegations that he received envelopes stuffed with cash to fund his successful 2007 election campaign.

Daily Mail

A couple was killed and at least 80 people were injured Thursday in a massive car pileup involving at least 140 vehicles, which left trucks and family SUVs twisted on top of each other and authorities rushing to pull survivors from two miles of wreckage along a busy Texas highway.