Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
From its humble beginning 33 years ago at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the career of Ann E. Dunwoody is ascending to a peak never before reached by a woman in the US military: four-star general.
Hillary Clinton emerged on Thursday as a candidate to be US secretary of state for Barack Obama, months after he defeated her in an intense contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Prosecutors filed a murder charge Thursday against the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a rat-infested cell and fathering her seven children, saying one of the youngsters who died in infancy might have survived if brought to a doctor.
Cuba on Wednesday presented a new book by Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 but who authorities claim spent more than 400 hours working on the manuscript.
A 56-year-old woman who gave birth to her triplet granddaughters a month ago is recovering from a Caesarean section.
In a case that raises a host of medical and ethical issues, the British teenager from a small town northwest of London has won a battle to refuse a heart transplant operation.
Mohamed Nasheed, 41, took the reins from Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, a man who jailed him repeatedly on what rights groups say were trumped-up charges, after a brief ceremony.
Miriam Makebe died early Monday of a heart attack after collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday sacked another member from the cabinet, Minister of Transportation Hamidullah Qadri, for his "incompetence" at work.
Edith Shain, the nurse in the famous photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York's Times Square on V-J Day in 1945, tries to imitate the photo's embrace in New York Nov. 9, 2008.
She's been compared to Jacqueline Kennedy, is every bit as high-powered as Hillary Rodham Clinton was and has praised Laura Bush's calm and rational approach to issues.So what kind of first lady will Michelle Obama be?
President-elect Barack Obama Friday admitted he faced a monumental challenge after promising his daughters a dog after the campaign, saying some of the pooches the first family-to-be were considering were "mutts like me."
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