Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
The British wife of Osama bin Laden's son Omar said on Friday the couple feared they might be killed because of his denunciation of the views of his father, the leader of al Qaeda.
All ears were listening to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's victory speech this week but fashion-watchers were looking closely at his wife Michelle's dress - and the verdict was not so good.
Italy's famously impolitic Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi described U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday as "young, handsome and even tanned."
Gov. Sarah Palin hadn't been back home in Alaska for a full day and her staff had begun fielding requests Thursday for postelection interviews, including from Barbara Walters, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King and others.
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they will not bring criminal charges against Eliot Spitzer for his role in a prostitution scandal, removing a legal cloud that has surrounded the former New York governor since his epic downfall eight months ago.
Michelle Obama, the 44-year-old Princeton and Harvard Law School graduate, and working mother of two, is certainly her own woman.
One of Osama bin Laden's sons has been denied asylum in Spain, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman told CNN on Wednesday.
President-elect Obama, sprinkled his victory speech with references to the civil rights struggle, and paid tribute to Cooper, daughter of slaves born at a time when women and blacks couldn't vote.
Unpaid, with no official duties, the wife of the US president can exert enormous influence, since she has both the ear of the president and a powerful bully pulpit all her own.
A son of Osama bin Laden who grabbed headlines by marrying a British woman last year has flown to Spain and requested asylum, the Spanish government said Tuesday.
A 92 years old cast a straight Democratic ballot Tuesday in ambulance.
A day before the presidential election, Barack Obama announced the death Monday of his grandmother, who helped raise him and who he praised as the cornerstone of his family.
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