Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time tenure Friday as Microsoft's leader.
Only World War III would prompt Republican presidential candidate John McCain to bring back the military draft, McCain said on Tuesday.
United Nations security chief David Veness has resigned over a deadly terrorist attack against UN facilities in Algiers last December, according to a news release Tuesday.
Sadie and Pyper Vance have had just about enough of high gas prices.
US President George W. Bush nominated on Monday the first woman four-star general in the country's history.
Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71.
Maria Monaco spent the last 18 years of her life locked in a bare room in a sleepy southern town, fed in tin bowls and watched over by her elderly mother and siblings as she slept in a filthy bed.
Foul-mouthed British chef Gordon Ramsay prompted Australia's parliament Thursday to push for tighter rules to protect viewers from swearing on television.
Austria's oldest citizen, Hermine Dunz, died in her hometown of Graz on Saturday, months after celebrating her 110th birthday, local media reported Wednesday.
Manuel Uribe jokes as he holds a fruit cake with his girlfriend Claudia Solis outside his house in the suburb of San Nicolas de los Garza in the northern city of Monterrey June 11, 2008. Uribe, once the world's most obese man, celebrated his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a very short trip outside his house. [Agencies]
Militants in the southern Philippines have freed a well-known television anchorwoman, her cameraman and a university professor after holding them as hostages for nine days to demand a ransom, police said Wednesday.
Britain's Prince William arrives for the Order of the Garter Service, at Windsor in southern England on June 16, 2008. Britain's Queen Elizabeth appointed Prince William a Royal Knight of the Garter. [Agencies]
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