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 French court awarded first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy 40,000 euros in damages from a company that sold bags emblazoned with a picture of her in the nude.
France's richest woman has been forced to insist she is of sound mind after she gave more than a billion dollars in gifts to a society photographer.
President George W. Bush knows he's unpopular. But here's what matters, he says: "I didn't compromise my soul to be a popular guy."
Tortured by Stalin's henchmen and attacked by Hitler's forces, Aleksander Szekal almost became one of World War II's millions of victims.
An Egyptian man said on Wednesday he was offering his 20-year-old daughter in marriage to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush in Baghdad on Sunday.
President-elect Barack Obama intends to name former Securities and Exchange Commissioner Mary Schapiro to head the much-criticized agency and wants to install GOP Rep. Ray LaHood of Illinois as transportation secretary, Democratic officials said Wednesday.
Two weeks ago, Bernard Madoff stopped by the Everglades Barber Shop off Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, for the usual: a $65 haircut, a $40 shave, a $50 pedicure and a $22 manicure.
President-elect Barack Obama chose the Harvard-educated chief executive of Chicago Public Schools as his secretary of education on Tuesday.
One of the conjoined twins separated by surgeons earlier this month has had an operation to close a hole in her chest.
The Iraqi TV reporter who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush was kidnapped once by militants and, separately, detained briefly by the US military.
Two Britons who were spared jail after being convicted for having sex on a Dubai beach are now in police custody awaiting deportation.
The high-profile billionaire Saudi prince investor in Citigroup lost $4 billion of his net worth over the past year.
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