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 92-year-old wheelchair-bound woman has been arrested by Spanish police who found packages of cocaine attached to her body at Madrid's main airport.
An Italian man has taken reckless driving to new heights in 11 frantic minutes of traffic violations in eastern Switzerland.
A 16-year-old Australian steered her bright pink yacht out of Sydney Harbor on Sunday to start her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world.
A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) said that they have created the world's first semi-cloned fish, local media reported on Friday.
A majority of French people, including supporters of the ruling centre right, oppose the expected appointment of President Nicolas Sarkozy's son as head of a large urban development agency, a poll on Friday showed.
Outgoing Bank of America Corp. CEO Ken Lewis will get no salary or bonus for 2009 under an agreement with the government's pay czar.
The mother of a 14-year-old Oklahoma boy who says he was locked away in apartment closets over four years was charged Thursday with 29 counts of child abuse for allegedly torturing and imprisoning the teen.
US President Barack Obama fired back on Thursday at critics who say he has few accomplishments of note in his nine months in office and declared he was just getting started.
India's richest man announced he will voluntarily cap his compensation at 150 million rupees ($3.3 million) this year, saying he will get by on about a third of his take-home pay from the previous year.
Five female scientists were elected laureates for the 2010 UNESCO-L'Oreal Award, the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced Thursday.
Director Roman Polanski is finishing work on his latest film from a Swiss jail where he is fighting extradition to the United States on a 1977 sex charge, writer Robert Harris was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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