Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
Paul G. Kirk Jr. served Edward M. Kennedy as an aide, rooted beside him at Harvard-Yale football games and is the executor of his will.
Actress Mackenzie Phillips said in a memoir published on Wednesday that she had a decade-long incestuous affair with her father John Phillips, the late singer with 1960s band The Mamas & the Papas.
Merkel, 55, appears on track to win a second term as German chancellor on Sunday after four years of rule that have won her admirers at home and abroad, but also confounded some of Berlin's partners.
A local saint in the Indian capital of New Delhi has given Hindu names to Hollywood actress Julia Roberts' three children.
Former child star Mackenzie Phillips said Wednesday that she had a decade-long sexual relationship with her father, pop superstar John Phillips, who also taught her how to roll joints and injected her with cocaine.
The Libyan government has pitched a tent in suburban New York that leader Moammar Khadafy may use for entertaining, according to a State Department official.
Back in Afghanistan, Daoud Sediqi recalls, he could rarely walk the streets without fans cheering him on, grateful he brought some hope back to the country with his blockbuster Afghan Idol show.
A woman convicted for participating in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Wednesday broke her two-day fast at Vellore jail in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Police in Philadelphia say a white officer who came to work with cornrows was ordered by a black superior to get a haircut because the braids violated department standards.
The head of the Bank of England is the leading contender to become the deputy chief of a new European-wide board to track the stability of financial institutions, a report said Wednesday.
A mother who stabbed her teenage daughters to death as they slept at their home was given two life sentences yesterday, and told she must serve at least 33 years in jail.
The wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who separated from her husband in the wake of his affair with an Argentine woman, is writing a memoir.
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