Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy collapsed while jogging Sunday on the lush grounds of the Chateau of Versailles and will stay at a hospital overnight even though tests so far have found nothing wrong, his office said.
Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer.
Bhatti, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jackson's young son Blanket, lived at the singer's Neverland Ranch for several years in the late '90s.
Harry Patch, the last British military veteran of World War I, has died at 111, the nursing home where he lived said Saturday.
Knocked off stride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President Barack Obama hastened Friday to tamp down the controversy.
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a symbolic step into his homeland Friday, vowing to reclaim his post a month after soldiers flew him into exile.
Jon Huntsman has the potential to improve Sino-US ties, as he appeared before the Senate for a confirmation hearing as the US ambassador to China.
Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said Thursday he would work with the Chinese government to shore up the global economy and to persuade the DPRK to abandon its nuclear weapons effort if he is confirmed as ambassador to China.
Ever the entertainer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has posted a video on the Web in which he picks up an oversized knife and jokes about selling state vehicles to raise cash.
Turkmenistan's president opened a cancer hospital and performed the first operation himself.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, facing a snowballing call girl scandal, Wednesday urged his detractors to understand that he is no saint, the ANSA news agency reported.
Bolivian police say that a 42-year-old man who fell asleep under an ant-infested tree has been killed by insect bites.
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