Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
On buttons, posters and websites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.
A dogged South Korean grandmother has failed her driving test 771 times, police said Thursday, but a local newspaper reported she will keep trying.
Olympic champion Michael Phelps said Wednesday it has been difficult coping with the fallout from a photo of him smoking from a marijuana pipe. "It's something I am going to have to live with and something I'll have to grow from,"
After getting struck by a motorcycle, an elderly Japanese man with head injuries waited in an ambulance as paramedics phoned 14 hospitals, each refusing to treat him.
While most children his age sketch on paper with crayons, nine-year old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, has a very different canvas -- his iPhone.
Authorities say a 4-year-old girl died after she climbed into a washing machine and her little brother switched it on.
A mystery benefactor, known only as Bailout Bill, sits behind a counter in the heart of Times Square giving money to hundreds of people waiting in line
Police in Cleveland say a man called 911 because he felt he was in danger, then asked the dispatcher to hold on while he made a drug deal.
Where is the lifetime supply of diapers, formula and baby wipes? The free van? The brand-new house?
A lesbian couple who led the fight for gay marriage in Massachusetts has filed for divorce.
It is hard on the psyche to lose a US presidential election. Al Gore, when he lost, fled to Europe and grew a beard.And John McCain? Well, he returned to his day job, in the 100-member US Senate, and went back to work.
The daughters of US President Barack Obama are the inspiration for the latest in the TyGirlz Collection.
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