Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
Inside a small, dark and sweaty movie theatre in the heart of the Afghan capital, a packed audience of men chant and whistle as bronzed and muscular figures flex their biceps in the hope of being crowned Mr Afghanistan.
Small new "netbook" computers from Acer Inc. will come with Google Inc.'s Android operating system if buyers desire, instead of Windows from Microsoft Corp.
After a dramatic scuttling on May 27, the former Air Force missile-tracking ship was opened to the public May 30. The Vandenberg is the second largest ship in the world to be intentionally sunk to create an artificial reef for sport divers and anglers.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday expressed high hopes of cooperation between the United State and China ahead of key climate change talks.
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged on Tuesday that some waste is inevitable in the spending of a $787 billion economic stimulus package, in a characteristically blunt assessment.
Al-Qaida's deputy leader criticized President Barack Obama's upcoming speech to the Islamic world in Cairo, saying it will not change the "bloody messages" the US military is sending Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama said Tuesday the American people love all things French and acknowledged his own penchant for Gallic food and wines.
All were among the victims of Air France Flight 447, leaving broken hearts from Rio to Paris and far beyond.
Polish customs at the Ukrainian border Tuesday found 121 Central Asian tortoises, a threatened species, bound so tightly in black tape that their heads could barely squeeze out from their shells.
A suburban Cleveland man who was accused of assaulting a flight attendant as he tried frantically to use an airplane bathroom has reached a deal with federal prosecutors, his attorney said Tuesday.
A commercial fossil hunter, whose discovery of the world's best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing raptor bones from private land.
Threats failed to deter 67-year-old Tiller, who believed he was morally right...
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