Euphoria over New York State’s legalisation of same-sex marriage promised to turn the annual gay pride parade here into an enormous engagement party.
At least 25 people were killed on Sunday when suspected Islamists threw a bomb and fired on a beer garden in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
Tens of thousands of tourists are expected to watch Prince Albert of Monaco and former Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock marry in Monaco this week.
An informal survey shows French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde appeared poised to become the head of the IMF this week.
Screaming and chanting his name, the 500 women and girls vowed their undying love for one man. Not a pop star, but Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
The South African Under-20 rugby team obliterated Fiji 104-17 in their battle for fifth place at the Junior World Championship in Italy.
Taliban insurgents used an eight-year-old girl carrying a bag of explosives to attack a police checkpost in central Afghanistan.
On her second overseas trip without the president, she was warmly received, often with song and to the point of almost being moved to tears.
Fernando Alonso called his second place in Sunday’s European Grand Prix a "great achievement" for Ferrari — and forecast they are on the way back.
Aung San Suu Kyi knows all too well how Buddhism has played a major political role throughout Asia, both for good and bad.