Hong Kong's chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen disclosed recently that he was usually worn out after work and had little time to talk with his "inseparable" wife.
Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, leaving throngs of desperate refugees without enough food and water along the Uzbek border.
US lawmakers channeled Americans' anger and pilloried the boss of the British oil company that caused the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in a withering day of judgment Thursday.
Wrapped in large blankets, long coats and hats pulled low, some 2,000 homeless people streamed into a vast church in a wealthy suburb of Pretoria on Wednesday night to hear a spiritual message and watch Bafana Bafana in the World Cup.
Investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced on Wednesday that they are asking hundreds of billionaire Americans to give away at least 50 percent of their wealth to charity.
Park Ji-Sung will put his friendship with Carlos Tevez to one side when South Korea come up against Argentina in their second World Cup Group B match at Soccer City Stadium here on Thursday.
Portugal have called on FIFA to overturn the yellow card issued to Cristiano Ronaldo during their 0-0 draw with Cote d'Ivoire in a World Cup Group G meeting in Port Elizabeth.
Federal health regulators said Wednesday the first pill designed to boost the female sex drive failed to make a significant impact on libido in two studies.
The New York Stock Exchange halted trading in Washington Post Co. shares Wednesday under a new system of market curbs, after the stock doubled in price in apparently erroneous trades.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Wednesday he does not intend to dissolve the lower house for a snap election.
Argentine soccer icon Gabriel Batistuta found his money and credit cars stolen Wednesday in a hotel of Johannesburg, where he is working as commentator of the World Cup for an international TV chain.
Fifteen people were killed and another 12 missing after flash floods hit southeastern France, turning city streets into meters-high brown rivers that swept away cars, trees and houses.