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 9-year-old boy charged in the gang-rape of an 8-year-old Liberian girl sobbed in court Monday as his teacher testified that he rarely did his homework and often got into fights with other students.
The US Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated.
Roman Polanski's extradition to US on a decades-old sex charge could take years to accomplish after the Oscar-winning film director decided on Monday to fight his removal from Europe.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called Barack Obama "tanned" again despite coming under fire for using the term before to describe the first black US president.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied on Sunday political gossip that he is taking prescription painkillers or pills and said he was fit enough to lead the country.
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski was taken into custody, Swiss police confirmed yesterday, on a 1978 US arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Family members of the Yale University doctoral student found murdered on what was to be her wedding day said they'll always remember the beaming smile and fun-loving spirit of the brilliant woman who hoped to change the world through her medical research.
Astrid Thoenig got dressed, went to work and sat at her desk smiling Thursday as she slid her finger gently under the envelope flap of yet another identical birthday card. They don't make that many that say "Happy 100th."
Indonesia's heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds on Friday to an Indonesian hospital where the boy named Akbar - or "the Great" in Arabic - came into the world at a national record 8.7 kilograms (19.2 pounds).
An Australian court sentenced a former Qantas Airways baggage handler to 12 years in prison Friday for publishing a do-it-yourself jihad book on the Internet.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said late Thursday that his first talks with the interim government that kicked him out of the country in June were a failure.
A funny thing happened on Sonia Sotomayor's drive to Washington to be announced as President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee: She got lost.
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