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 married US man thought he was going to a motel for a little romance with one of his handful of lovers. But four women showed up to humiliate the quadrangle lover.
President Barack Obama is struggling to find a way to pay for an overhaul of the nation's health care system without violating his campaign promise not to raise taxes on the middle class.
NATO needs more international help from the United Nations and European Union to secure and rebuild Afghanistan, the alliance's new civilian chief said Monday.
Two of President Barack Obama's economic heavyweights said middle-class taxes might have to go up to pare budget deficits or to pay for the proposed overhaul of the nation's health care system.
A Seattle bank teller has lost his job because he ran down a would-be bank robber and held him until police arrived.
The Vangelakos' southwest Florida condominium has marble floors, a large pool and modern furnishings. What they don't have in the 32-story building is a single neighbor.
The remains of the first American lost in the Persian Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, after struggling for nearly two decades with the question of whether he was dead or alive.
A disabled woman won her legal battle Thursday to force British authorities to say whether her husband would be prosecuted if he helped her commit suicide.
With mugs of beer and a few minutes of conversation, President Obama tried to pull himself and the nation beyond an uproar over race. The Disunited Colors of Prejudice
US will have "very soon" a new ambassador to China as Utah Governor Jon Huntsman's nomination may be confirmed Tuesday night, US Secretary of State Clinton said.
Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39, was arrested late on Monday with his two sons and four other North Carolina men. Prosecutors accused them of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" through a series of terror attacks abroad.
In one by-product of Michael Jackson' death, a company said on Friday it had obtained some of the singer's hair and planned to create diamonds from it.