While President-elect Barack Obama will certainly be making history when he takes the oath of office on January 20, he’ll also be repeating it — by placing his hand on the same Bible Abraham Lincoln used during the inauguration of 1861.
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A group fighting for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia condemned a judge Wednesday for refusing to annul the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a 47-year-old man.
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No one expected to find Donna Molnar alive.
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The Israeli Air Force killed a Hamas militant who was part of a group launching rockets into Israel on Wednesday, Israeli officials said.
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Two snowmobilers died Wednesday in an avalanche on Logan Peak north of Salt Lake City, Utah, a sheriff’s department official said.
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Investigators won’t know until next week the cause of death of Thierry de la Villehuchet, a hedge fund adviser whose firm reportedly lost $1.5 billion investing with Bernard Madoff.
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Here’s what happens when you go to interview Aretha Franklin: Her publicist will e-mail the cell phone number of her security man to your BlackBerry. Once you reach the lobby of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, you call the cell phone. Someone will come down to get you and bring you up to her suite, where you’ll be greeted by Carlton, her longtime makeup artist.
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A High Court judge in Zimbabwe on Wednesday ordered the release of 32 human rights activists and members of the opposition.
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A military junta that toppled Guinea’s government announced its new leader Wednesday in a nationwide radio address.
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