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 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he is more worried about the increasing U.S. debt than the weakening dollar during a meeting here on Thursday.
Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal, who is just 56 centimeters high, is thought to be the world's smallest living man.
The health of Thailand's king was improving but he needs time-consuming physical therapy, a palace official said on Thursday after concerns over his health sparked a second day of foreign selling in Thailand's financial markets.
Five teenagers were charged Tuesday for dousing a 15-year-old with rubbing alcohol and setting him on fire because he stopped someone from stealing his father's bicycle.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling out his wife, Maria Shriver, for apparently violating a state law he signed - holding her cell phone while driving.
After more than 14 hours of discussion, the heirs of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. reached a settlement late on Monday that will keep the family of the slain civil rights leader from a public jury trial.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger met with criticism as well as praise this week after signing controversial state bills affirming gay rights.
In a rare public defense of a process normally shrouded in secrecy, four of the Nobel jury's five judges spoke out Tuesday about a selection they said was both merited and unanimous.
Hours after the pop singer's first posthumous single This Is It was released amid great hype on Monday, it emerged that the tune had been recorded 18 years ago by an obscure Puerto Rican singer.
Ruth Frith, a 100-year-old from Australia, competes in the women's 75+ shot put final at the World Masters Games in Sydney Olympic Park October 11, 2009.
Hours after the pop singer's first posthumous single "This Is It" was released amid great hype on Monday, it emerged that the tune had been recorded 18 years ago by an obscure Puerto Rican singer.
Elvis Presley's hair, at least a clump of hair that Presley may have lost to an Army barber when he went into the service back in 1958, is going on the auction block this Sunday at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago.
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