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 woman who made news around the world when she had cloned five pups looked very familiar to some who saw her picture.
A man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Brazilian police said Wednesday that they had detected a plot by two drug dealers to kidnap the son of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to extort the government.
Paris Hilton has jumped into the US election campaign, calling Republican candidate John McCain a "wrinkly white-haired guy" and offering her own energy policy.
Scarlett Johansson can laugh about it now, but the actress says she was embarrassed by the media coverage of her so-called "e-mail relationship" with Barack Obama.
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition Monday after the car he was driving left a rural road in the Mississippi Delta and flipped several times.
After a frenzied bidding war, the first photo of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins has sold for a record US$14 million and has just been published online.
Exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn twins fetched US$14 million, a person involved in the negotiations said, giving People magazine and a British tabloid joint rights to publish the most expensive celebrity pictures ever sold.
Police on Thursday accused a Brazilian man of killing and dismembering his 17-year-old British girlfriend, taking pictures of her body parts with his cell phone and stuffing her torso in a suitcase.
The wife of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was found guilty Thursday of evading millions of dollars in taxes and sentenced to three years in prison.
Obama said McCain was trying to scare voters with attacks on his character, as McCain's new ad labeling Obama more of a celebrity than a leader.
A small but enthusiastic Singapore crowd got its first taste of professional eating as the sports' two titans - Takeru Kobayashi and Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut - made their debut in the city-state.
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