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 Leopard Man of Skye, once the world's most tattooed man, has left behind his remote hermit lifestyle to live in a retirement home.
Just a month ago, a bubbly Jennifer Hudson, who had been striking gold with just about everything she touched, was running down the list of all the projects that she expected would soon dominate her life.
Police searching for Jennifer Hudson's missing 7-year-old nephew found the body of a young black boy in an SUV Monday. There was no confirmation on the identity of the body.
Manuel Uribe, once the world's fattest man at 1230lbs, and his wife Manuel Uribe are married in their hometown of Monterrey, Mexico, October 26, 2008.
An Arkansas television anchorwoman died Saturday, several days after she didn't answer her wake-up call and was found beaten in her home, hospital officials said.
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Saturday there was no harassment, favoritism or any other abuse of authority by Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Speculation that he led a double life raged after his political protege publicly called Haider "the man of my life" in a tearful tribute to the former Freedom Party boss.
The mother and brother of Jennifer Hudson were found shot dead, and police were seeking a missing child who is the nephew of the singer and Oscar-winning actress.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he's not sure his gravely ill grandmother will live to see Election Day, which is less than two weeks away.
Stephen Hawking is to retire as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics next year.
Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter after keeping her imprisoned in a cellar for 24 years, is an "emotional invalid" and described himself as a "born rapist".
Prosecutors asked a federal judge on Monday to sentence an Italian businessman who was the longtime boyfriend of Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to more than four years in prison for fraud.
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