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Francois Hollande, the Socialist "Mr Normal" who will be sworn in as French president next week, says he is worth almost 1.2 million euros, considerably less than his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy.
She says she will happily play "second fiddle as first lady" while remaining a working mum. She has followed changes in the Elyse Palace for years and now she can experience it herself when accompanying the new president.
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko shows what she claims an injury in the Kachanivska prison in Kharkiv.
US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is scheduled to go to trial in September by a military judge on Thursday.
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian on trial for the mass murder of 77 people last July, has puzzled mental health experts trying to decide one of the central questions in the case: whether he is sane or in touch with reality.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres on Wednesday highlighted a nuclear Iran as the closest existential threat to the world nowadays.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc's Warren Buffett disclosed on Tuesday that he has stage 1 prostate cancer but said his condition "is not remotely life-threatening".
Michelle Obama commented on her Twitter account, saying, "Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected" after a Democratic pundit criticized the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Mike Wallace, who helped make "60 Minutes" one the most successful prime-time television news program in the US, has died at the age of 93.
Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer caught in an undercover sting by US agents, was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Wealthier smartphone users are less likely to play games or tweet and will opt for news, travel or finance apps, according to a new study.
The US soldier implicated in the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan "has no memory" of the incident, his lawyer said on Monday after their first face-to-face meeting.
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