Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
President Barack Obama's back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda.
A Russian mobile phone tycoon wanted in Moscow on charges of kidnapping and blackmail said on Friday he would prove his innocence in a British court after it issued a warrant for his arrest.
A leading French chess player turned up drunk and dozed off after just 11 moves in an international tournament in Kolkata, losing the round on technical grounds.
Michael Jackson will share eternity with the likes of Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and WC Fields, entombed alongside them in a grand marble mausoleum that will be all but off-limits to adoring fans who might otherwise turn the pop star's grave into a shrine.
Japan's soon-to-be first lady, Miyuki Hatoyama, is an outgoing former actress with an interest in spirituality, who says she shares a common "sensibility" with Michelle Obama.
A baby boy was born with rare conjoined heads in Kyaukme, Myanmar's Shan state, recently, a local weekly reported Wednesday.
Those who see Bernard Madoff as the personification of greed and excess might be disappointed by his beach house: It's not that palatial.
A newspaper says a French climber nicknamed "Spiderman" has scaled Malaysia's iconic 88-story Petronas Twin Towers.
Indonesia's police chief says a suspected terrorist infiltrated the national airline in a plot to carry out an attack.
A Sri Lankan court Monday sentenced an ethnic Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison under the island's harsh anti-terrorism law for publishing articles critical of the government's war on the Tamil Tiger rebels.
A 10-year-old boy is facing a murder charge in the shooting death of his father.
NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent _ Jenna Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush.
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