Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
Her restaurant is one of Dandong's most luxurious and one of the few establishments bordering the DPRK that is still seeing brisk business in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear test in May.
The Secret Service is investigating a man who authorities said held a sign reading "Death to Obama" outside a town hall meeting on health-care reform in western Maryland.
Officials insisted Wednesday they banned the woman's use of the Islam-friendly suit at a local pool because of France's pool hygiene standards, not out of hostility to overtly Muslim garb.
Japan's prime minister urged voters Wednesday to stick with his long-ruling party in this month's elections because it has produced results while the opposition, which is surging in popularity, has not proven it can carry through with its promises.
Indonesian police said that forensic tests showed a suspect shot dead in a raid on a farmhouse in Central Java at the weekend was not leading Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top.
Bernard Madoff's right-hand man emerged in federal court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to conspiracy, contradicting claims by the disgraced financier that he acted alone.
The State Department struggled Tuesday to explain Secretary of State Clinton's face-off with a Congolese student and suggested that the questioner's nervousness sparked the outburst.
A court Tuesday jailed a 90-year-old former German army commander for life for ordering a massacre of Italian civilians in 1944, in one of Germany's last major Nazi war crimes trials.
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is suffering from the H1N1 flu virus, a government official said on Tuesday.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday demanded an end to the rampant sexual violence that has engulfed war-ravaged eastern Congo.
President John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died Tuesday morning, her family said in a statement. She was 88.
A judge greenlit a major Michael Jackson movie deal Monday, and the film is scheduled to be in theaters later this year. The accompanying Michael Jackson merchandise will have to wait, for now.
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