Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
Leading South Africa's anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman who died on New Year's Day was on Sunday buried in a private Jewish ceremony attended by top politicians and close friends in Johannesburg.
France's justice minister Rachida Dati gave birth to a baby girl in Paris late Friday, a government source said.
Helen Suzman, for decades South Africa's most famous white crusader against apartheid, has died at the age of 91.
A Japanese man who had been living in Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez International Airport since Sept. 2 - for no apparent reason - left under equally mysterious circumstances.
After a life that touched three centuries, the oldest man in the United States has died in California at the age of 112, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported on Monday.
A Japanese man who had been living in Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez International Airport since Sept. 2, for no apparent reason, left under equally mysterious circumstances.
A high school student in southwest China who raised money for survivors of the devastating Sichuan earthquake by selling cookies and her own watercolor paintings will attend next month's inauguration of US President-elect Barack Obama.
Laura Bush and Condoleezza Rice are strongly defending the president's legacy against critics who are calling his administration one of the worst in history.
Laura Zuniga, the Mexican beauty queen jailed after she was picked up with an alleged drug cartel leader and heavily armed men, has been stripped of one of her titles, Bolivian organizers said over the weekend.
Caroline Kennedy emerged from weeks of near-silence Friday about her bid for a Senate seat by saying that after a lifetime of closely guarded privacy, she felt compelled to answer the call to service issued by her father a generation ago.
Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, a laid-off aerospace worker, apparently shot some of his nine victims execution-style to destroy his ex-wife's family after a costly divorce.
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