Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
California's attorney general said on Wednesday his office has run several doctors' names and several potential aliases through its prescription drug database to aid police investigating the death of Michael Jackson.
Jackson's world fans mourn idol
Fans in Asia stayed up into the wee hours, bars across Europe held Michael Jackson theme nights and television stations from Sydney to Paris cleared their schedules Tuesday to broadcast the King of Pop's star-studded memorial service live from Los Angeles.
US Weekly magazine has obtained video it says shows never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson's head catching on fire during filming of his 1984 Pepsi commercial.
Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the first meeting of the leaders of the rival Koreas, is on a respirator at a Seoul hospital.
She devoted years to caring for her mother, who died at age 101. Then Maria del Carmen Bousada embarked on a quest to become a mom herself. She lied to a California fertility clinic to skirt its age limit, and later pointed to her mother's longevity as a reason to expect she'd be around to care for her kids.
Honduras' interim leader said Wednesday he is willing to step down if it helps end his country's political crisis, conditioning the move on guarantees that ousted President Manuel Zelaya doesn't return to take his place.
A British backpacker was found alive on Wednesday after being lost for 12 days in rugged bushland west of Sydney.
The second in command of al-Qaida is warning the Pakistani people that the US interference in their country's affairs poses a grave danger to its future and very existence.
Steven Rattner will leave as head of the US autos task force, which oversaw bankruptcies at General Motors Corp and Chrysler Group, at a time when a probe into how the private equity firm he co-founded gained New York pension business has intensified.
After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, Hannah Clark's faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: it healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donated heart.
Bernard Madoff blamed for what is believed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history arrived Tuesday at a prison in North Carolina to begin a 150-year sentence in a cell with two bunk beds, a toilet and a sink.
Administrators of Michael Jackson's estate are temporarily authorized to reopen for business and negotiate, among other things, agreements relating to the singer's ill-fated "This Is It" concert tour.
A New York lawyer was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for financial fraud, following arch swindler Bernard Madoff's imprisonment of 150 years last month.
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