Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence.
A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said Tuesday.
The severed head of King Badu Bonsu II is going home to Ghana, around 170 years after it was hacked off in retaliation for the slayings of two Dutch emissaries whose skulls were hung from the tribal leader's throne.
Mason was sentenced Friday to four years in prison on her guilty plea to reckless homicide. She expressed remorse to her family members during a hearing in Geauga County court.
Two of the world's longest-surviving octuplets came home from the hospital Tuesday night, greeted by a crush of photographers, neighbors and curious onlookers gathered on a cul de sac where the mother will raise her 14 children.
Former President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that he won't criticize Barack Obama because the new US president "deserves my silence," and said he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.
A pastor in New England town thought he was doing good when he took in a convicted child killer who had served his time but had nowhere to go. But some neighbors vehemently disagree.
A firebrand politician, self-styled living goddess and champion of India's most oppressed class is making a powerful, and some say credible, play to become the country's first "untouchable" premier.
Sara Jane Olson is scheduled to be released from a California prison this week.
The government of Pakistan has restricted the movement of former Prime Minister and chief of a major opposition party Nawaz Sharif on Sunday, the private TV channel DAWN NEWS reported.
Not even a skiing accident could slow Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's political ascent.
Bernard Madoff and his wife had $823 million in assets at the end of last year, including $22 million in properties stretching from New York to the French Riviera, a $7 million yacht and a $2.2 million boat.
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