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KHARTOUM — Deposed ex-Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has been moved to Khartoum's grim high-security Kobar prison from the presidential residence, family sources said on Wednesday, and transitional military rulers (...)
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The 88th Academy Awards got underway with host Chris Rock launching the show, after Hollywood's finest walked up a (...)
presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton together with their wives expressed condolences on the death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
In separate statements, they recalled some interesting memories of experience while tackling the U.S. (...)
Major League Baseball player testified Tuesday that he witnessed former pitching ace Roger Clemens being injected with a vitamin as Clemens' defense sought to undermine prosecution claims he received performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens, 49, is on (...)
Argentina manager Sergio Batista said Chelsea's Didier Drogba could soon join him at Shanghai Shenhua as he was unveiled as Chinese football's latest star acquisition Wednesday. Batista indicated Drogba, who has already announced his departure from (...)
husband Bobby Brown struck back at claims he was responsible for getting the pop star hooked on drugs or that he somehow played a role in her cocaine-fueled death in February.
“I'm not the one that got Whitney on drugs, at all,” Brown said in an (...)
husband of late singer Whitney Houston, was arrested in Los Angeles on Monday on suspicion of driving under the influence, police said. Brown, 43, was pulled over shortly after noon for talking on his cellphone while driving in the suburb of Reseda. (...)
Manchester United midfielder Darron Gibson did his old club a huge favor by scoring the winner for Everton in a 1-0 victory over Premier League leader Manchester City, while United moved level on points at the top after beating Stoke City (...)
Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested and arraigned Wednesday on new sex abuse charges brought by two new accusers, the state attorney general's office said.
The charges were brought after new accusers were questioned by a grand jury (...)
President Laurent Gbagbo's war crimes trial in The Hague will prove safer for Ivory Coast than trying him at home, but will do little to solve the problems at the root of the country's civil conflicts.
Gbagbo sparked a four-month war that killed (...)
prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to seven years in jail on Tuesday, has combined feminine charisma with hard-edged pragmatism for over a decade in the macho world of Ukrainian politics.
But the woman known in Ukraine as the “Iron Lady” (...)
girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.
LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson and his Russian ex-girlfriend have reached a financial and custody settlement of a bitter dispute that spawned a criminal case and left the Academy Award winner's reputation damaged.
Los (...)
president of Tunisia has denounced his trial and conviction in absentia, calling it a “parody of justice.”
A day after Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife —both in exile since Jan. 14 — were convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison, he (...)
husband of Arnold Schwarzenegger's lover told a Colombian magazine Sunday that he plans to sue the former governor, alleging that the birth certificate of the couple's child was falsified.
Rogelio Baena, a Colombian native, was married to Mildred (...)
president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons were on Tuesday referred to a criminal court on charges of ordering the killings of anti-regime protesters and graft, the public prosecutor's office said.
The prosecutor's office said that Mubarak and his (...)
president Hosni Mubarak, in detention pending a probe into state violence against protesters, was reported Thursday to be in “stable” condition after suffering a heart attack.
The official MENA news agency in a brief statement said the 82-year-old (...)
president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons have been placed in detention for 15 days as part of an inquiry into the use of force against protesters, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
A statement on the public prosecutor's Facebook page said chief (...)
Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has said he aims to help Arsenal win the Premier League title as he looks set to come out of retirement to help ease the north London club's injury crisis.
The 41-year-old, who retired in May 2010 after winning 61 (...)
military ruler Pervez Musharraf apologized Friday for mistakes made during his last term in office as he launched a bid to return to power.
Musharraf told scores of cheering supporters that some of his decisions had negative repercussions for his (...)
wife of Paul McCartney, defended herself from accusations made by a former nanny at an employment tribunal in Britain on Tuesday.
Sara Trumble, 26, said Mills was a rude, angry and dishonest woman who forced her to lie to McCartney.
But Mills said (...)
husband Bobby Brown was emotionally abusive during their marriage and at one point spit on her.
After a long absence from music, Houston is staging a career comeback with a new album last month and a two-part appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” (...)
boyfriend of an 18-year-old woman at the heart of a scandal involving Premier Silvio Berlusconi has apologized for having fueled speculation about a presumed relationship between the two.
Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Sunday ran what it said (...)
president Moshe Katsav was formally charged on Thursday with several counts of rape, sexual harassment and an indecent act, the justice ministry said.
The move follows a March 8 announcement by prosecutors that they would indict Katsav who was (...)
Gitmo detainee Sa'eed Al-Shihri who has seemingly surfaced in Yemen as a senior Al-Qaeda operative despite having had undergone a rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia, says his son “is a deviant member of society who must be removed.”
The father, (...)
husband Guy Ritchie said on Wednesday that a statement released on the singer's behalf detailing terms of their divorce was “misleading and inaccurate”.
Liz Rosenberg, Madonna's spokeswoman in New York, said on Monday the singer had given British (...)