Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has shared the world stage with Britain's queen and the pope.
George Takei and his longtime partner, Brad Altman, have agreed to live long and prosper together.
Brother Father Eugene and Martin O'Hagan and Father David Delargy have been singing together for 30 years but were only recently discovered by music scouts.
A 33-year-old woman stole her daughter's identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad, according to a criminal complaint filed against the woman.
Phyllis Tarrant and her husband have title of Britain's oldest married couple - they are 205 between them.
After winning three silver medals in Beijing, Olympic swimmer Dara Torres has mastered another daunting challenge: walking the runway at New York Fashion Week.
He single-handedly saved a TV crew from the jaws of a tiger. He flexed his muscles in front of the cameras in Siberia. He cuts a dash on the ski slopes.
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was bounced from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling city and preoccupied its government for months.
Yuriko Koike emerged as a possible contender to be Japan's first female prime minister, with heavyweights in the ruling party urging her to challenge Taro Aso.
Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other "Peanuts" characters in scores of movies and TV specials, has died. He was 91. Melendez died of natural causes Tuesday at St. John's Health Center, according to publicist Amy Goldsmith.
The Justice Department refused to prosecute former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for improperly - and possibly illegally - storing in his office and home classified information about two of the Bush administration's most sensitive counterterrorism efforts.
In America, where teenage pregnancy is a political issue and working moms subject to debate, the choice of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice-presidential pick has ignited a Mommy War.
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