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 popular Japanese pop star was arrested Thursday for public indecency after being found drunk and naked at a Tokyo park, police said.
Real estate baroness Leona Helmsley's estate gave away $136 million Tuesday to hospitals, foundations and the homeless and left $1 million to animal charities, prompting one advocate to accuse the estate of failing to honor the hotel tycoon's wishes.
Miss California says she stands by her anti-gay-marriage comments, even if they may have cost her the Miss USA crown.
The family of physicist Stephen Hawking expects him to recover fully from a chest infection that has left him hospitalized, Cambridge University said Tuesday.
Queen Elizabeth II marked her 83rd birthday at Windsor Castle Tuesday, but she didn't have the day off work, Buckingham Palace said.
For the first time, an accused domestic terrorist is being added to the FBI's list of "Most Wanted" terror suspects.
More than three months after he was laid off in a round of massive staff cuts, former East Valley Tribune reporter Paul Giblin learned Monday that he had helped his old newspaper snag a Pulitzer Prize.
A British soldier in Afghanistan was dubbed the luckiest man in the military on Monday after a Taliban bullet pierced his helmet -- and he lived to tell the tale.
A popular South Korean blogger, who was initially touted as an economic prophet for his dire predictions on the global economy, was cleared Monday of spreading false information in a closely watched case that sparked heated debate over freedom of speech in cyberspace.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being the "most cruel and racist regime," sparking a walkout Monday by angry Western diplomats at a UN racism conference.
A photographer who says he captured images of Madonna after she fell off a horse in the Hamptons is disputing the singer's account of how the accident happened.
The father of Slumdog Millionaire child actress Rubina Ali tried to sell his nine-year-old daughter for adoption in a bid to escape the Mumbai slums, a British newspaper said on Sunday.
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