Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
A Massachusetts man and two friends tried and failed to get into terrorist training camps and then plotted to kill two prominent US politicians and randomly shoot people at American shopping malls.
Egyptian security agents on Wednesday arrested a Sudanese man who tried to hijack an airliner armed with a plastic knife, security sources said.
Three years after being axed as Afghan foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah has capped a startling political comeback by depriving his former boss Hamid Karzai of an easy re-election victory.
Swiss officials tipped off the United States and set in motion the arrest of director Roman Polanski last month in his decades-old child sex case, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
A man wanted in Europe has landed in a Nebraska prison for the state's most dangerous criminals...
Fallen financier Bernard Madoff has plunged from his Manhattan penthouse to the lower bunk of a cell he shares with a drug offender at a federal prison, where he eats pizza cooked by a child molester and hangs around with a mob boss and a convicted spy, according to legal papers filed Tuesday.
A special tribunal yesterday rejected a complaint against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for using his official plane to ferry guests to his private parties, media reports said.
President Barack Obama is having some fun at the expense of those who criticized him for trying to help his Chicago hometown land the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
For years, Charles Wesley Mumbere worked as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick. No one there suspected that he had inherited a royal title in his African homeland when he was just 13.
A former US government scientist was arrested on Monday for attempted espionage in an undercover operation with FBI agents posing as Israeli intelligence officers.
White House advisers pledged on Sunday to book administration officials on Fox News despite claims by the president's inner circle that Fox is a Republican mouthpiece.
Japan's first lady Miyuki Hatoyama, who has made headlines with tales of her alien encounters, drew fresh media attention yesterday - for being a fashion ambassador for humble blue jeans.
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