Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
Former US President Jimmy Carter said he was pressed by his advisers to attack Iran during the hostage crisis there more than 30 years ago but resisted because he feared 20,000 Iranians could have died.
Former US president Jimmy Carter launched a campaign yesterday in which thousands of volunteers will build homes for the poor in five nations along the Mekong River, a humanitarian group said.
A former prostitute whose memoirs were turned into the TV series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" has revealed her true identity -- Brooke Magnanti, a British research scientist.
A veteran Slovenian climber was found dead in the Himalayas Saturday days after he was injured and stranded on a 23,710-foot (7,227-meter) mountain, a mountain rescue company and a close friend said.
Forbes Magazine named drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, a fugitive reputed to be hiding in the mountains of northern Mexico, to its list of the 67 'World's Most Powerful People' on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
Richard Ramsey, 77, a 20-year Navy veteran from New Jersey, became Renee Ramsey this June, according to Philadelphia Inquirer Wednesday.
Authorities on Wednesday searched a rural property in western Missouri for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five members of their own family.
A Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee revealed her heavily disfigured face on television Wednesday, saying she is blind and has to eat through a straw, but isn't angry.
A British woman convicted of insurance fraud with her husband for faking his death in a canoe accident has offered to repay nearly 600,000 pounds (about $990,000), lawyers said yesterday.
Michael Jackson's private family funeral was fit for a king and had a price tag to match: roughly $1 million, according to court documents released Tuesday.
After just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post as he struggles to deal with heavy government oversight and restrictions on what the bailed-out company wants to pay employees.
French President Sarkozy has posted on Facebook a photo of himself chipping away at the Berlin Wall, which triggered intense debate over its veracity.
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