Thousands of people from all walks of life converged at South Africa's Union Building to witness President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on Saturday.
With pressure mounting on New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign over a call-girl scandal, investigators said Tuesday he was clearly a repeat customer. Called To Quit
Several dozen people protested outside a theater Saturday where a 104-year-old singer who once performed for Adolf Hitler took the stage in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni on Saturday at the Elysee Palace, according to the official who performed the ceremony.
A rogue trader who cost France's Societe Generale bank more than $7 billion by making bad stock market bets had been gambling on a much larger scale. Bank Fraud
Hard-living motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, whose bone-breaking, rocket-powered jumps and stunts made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Winston Churchill had bitter disputes with his Cabinet during the Cold War about building the hydrogen bomb and conducting private diplomacy with the Soviet Union.
France's president abruptly ended a "60 Minutes" interview aimed at introducing him to US audiences, dubbing it "stupid" and a "big mistake" and refusing to answer questions about his wife.
A British beauty queen says she was told to pack on pounds for the upcoming Miss World competition - an unexpected request, considering she's not rail-thin
France's former first lady Cecilia Sarkozy said she had devoted 20 sometimes difficult years to her marriage with President Nicolas Sarkozy but was looking forward to a normal life following her divorce.
British writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her "skepticism, fire and visionary power" in dozens of works, notably her classic The Golden Notebook.
British adventurer Jason Lewis on Saturday arrived in Greenwich, southeast London, ending a 13-year round-the-world trip using only the power of the human body.
How do you keep a leader as verbally gaffe-prone as US President George W. Bush from making even more slips of the tongue?
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