Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
Film director Roman Polanski agreed to pay the victim in his sex crime case at least $500,000 as part of a civil settlement reached years after he fled the United States.
An Israeli soldier held captive for more than three years in the Gaza Strip says in a video that he is being treated well by his Palestinian captors and sends his love to his parents.
The woman at the centre of a scandal involving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi added a new twist to the saga that has riveted Italians, saying he knew she was a prostitute when she spent the night with him.
A Canadian Roman Catholic bishop facing child pornography charges surrendered to police on Thursday, a day after police issued a nationwide arrest warrant for him.
In a hometown pitch for the world's biggest sporting event, President Barack Obama lobbied Olympic leaders to give the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, saying the US "is ready and eager to assume that sacred trust."
Late-night host David Letterman acknowledged that he had sexual relationships with female employees and someone tried to extort $2 million from him.
Taking the stand for the first time since she was snatched, Elizabeth Smart testified that her captor raped her three or four times a day.
A New York state appeals court on Tuesday dismissed former TV newsman Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS Corp in which Rather claimed he was made a scapegoat in a scandal over a 2004 report on then-President George W. Bush's military record.
A suspected al-Qaida operative pleaded not guilty Tuesday to plotting a bomb attack in New York and the city police said there is nothing to fear from the defendant's three alleged accomplices.
Two days before he is to blast off for the International Space Station, Guy Laliberte on Monday cracked jokes, donned his trademark red nose and flashed with enthusiasm over the venture.
President Barack Obama's decision to travel to Copenhagen for Chicago's 2016 Olympics bid drew criticism from political opponents who call it evidence of his blurred priorities.
Sarah Palin has finished her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced, and the release date has been moved up from the spring to November 17.
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