Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in October 2002, was executed Tuesday. Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 pm at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, prison spokesman Larry Traylor said.
A 21-year-old college dropout won the World Series of Poker early yesterday, completing the biggest comeback in the tournament's history to earn an $8.5 million jackpot.
A woman expelled for wearing a mini-dress that caused a near riot at a Brazilian college and made her an Internet sensation said all she wants is to go back to school.
Unless Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine steps in, sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad will be executed Tuesday for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in 2002.
Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel-prize winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.
A key US senator said Sunday he would begin an investigation into whether the Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology.
Japanese actress and singer Noriko Sakai was sentenced to 18 months in jail, suspended for three years, for drug use, Tokyo District Court ruled on Monday.
A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class - publicly accusing her Sunday of immorality.
A US Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care at a military hospital.
Employees at an engineering firm recognized their former co-worker when he drew a handgun from under his shirt, police said, and shot his first victim dead in the reception area. He then walked into the office and unloaded several more rounds, wounding five other employees at the company that fired him two years ago.
The late pop singer Michael Jackson's 81-year-old father demanded his share of 15,000 dollars from the late son's estate as monthly expenses, his attorneys said Friday.
Sarah who brought up President Obama's father, the late Barak Hussein Obama Snr, is looking after 80 orphans and a dozen widows.
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