Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi is in pain and having trouble eating and remained in hospital Thursday recovering from an attack by a mentally ill man that broke his nose and two teeth.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2009.
Italy's government on Tuesday said it plans to rush out new measures like blacking out hate sites on the Internet to protect politicians after a weekend assault on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi left him hospitalized.
A Canadian doctor who has treated golfer Tiger Woods and many other pro athletes is under a joint US-Canadian investigation for possibly providing performance-enhancing drugs.
An Italian man who broke Silvio Berlusconi's nose and teeth by striking him with a souvenir model has apologized to the Italian prime minister for his "cowardly and rash act", the attacker's lawyers said.
The souvenir-flinging man who attacked Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi joins a long list of gatecrashers, shoe-throwers and other security breachers who have embarrassed, bruised and even killed leaders worldwide.
US President Barack Obama, in an interview that aired Sunday, gave himself "a good solid B-plus" grade for his first year in office.
US economist Paul A. Samuelson, a Nobel Prize laureate died on Sunday, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where Samuelson taught.
An attacker hurled a statuette at Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, striking the leader in the face at the end of a rally Sunday and leaving the stunned 73-year-old media mogul with a broken nose and bloodied mouth.
Annise Parker made history Saturday by becoming Houston's first openly gay mayor, seizing 53.6 percent of the vote in the city's hotly contested election.
South Carolina's first lady, a former Wall Street vice president who helped launch her husband's political career, filed for divorce Friday more than five months after his tearful public confession of an affair with an Argentine woman.
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made a surprise appearance on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" on Friday, and turned the tables on actor William Shatner.
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