Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
In the latest blow to Brown's beleaguered leadership, the British PM is being forced to repay over 12,000 pounds in disputed claims following an audit into how British lawmakers spent public money.
He's 23 and has no college degree, and he's angling for a plum job overseeing France's premier business district. Jean Sarkozy, whose papa is the nation's president, is likely to get what he wants.
A US professor who showed how common property might be more successfully managed became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for economics yesterday, sharing this year's award with an American expert on conflict resolution.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview broadcast Monday that she would not run for president again.
American economists Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the 2009 Nobel prize for economics for their work in economic governance, the prize committee said Monday.
A man wanted in connection with the hijacking of a Pan Am flight to Cuba nearly 41 years ago was arrested in New York on Sunday, a Justice Department official said.
French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand won the backing of fellow politicians on Sunday against calls for his resignation for having written about paying young male prostitutes in Thailand.
Venezuela's socialist leader Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that US President Barack Obama had done nothing beyond wishful thinking to earn the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and two other space travelers landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday, ending the entertainment tycoon's mirthful space odyssey.
US President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future", in a surprise award that drew criticism as well as praise.
David Letterman, days after revealing on air that he'd been sexually involved with women from his television program, apologized to his wife on Monday's Late Show.
David Letterman acknowledges in his on-air apologies to his wife and staff for having sex with co-workers that he has his work cut out for him.
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