YAOUNDE, March 17, 2009 (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI, who arrived Tuesday in Cameroon for his first trip to Africa as pontiff, denounced condom use on the AIDS-ravaged continent, saying there were...
Hundreds of people have been kidnapped in Gambian witch hunts and taken to detention centres where they were forced to drink hallucinogenic concotions, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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Superstar US rapper Kanye West has been charged with assault, theft and vandalism related to a September 2008 incident involving paparazzi at Los Angeles' LAX airport, prosecutors announced...
A former paparazzi friend of pop superstar Britney Spears -- inseparable from the singer in the last few years -- has received a three-year restraining order from her, a Los Angeles court said...
The trial of Josef Fritzl, accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter for 24 years, continues Tuesday with more questioning of the defendent and the taped testimony of his victim.
Fritzl, 73,...
LONDON, (AFP) - Cancer-stricken British television star Jade Goody is to publish a diary of her dying days, her publishers said Tuesday.
The 27-year-old has allowed magazines and TV crews to cover...
MADRID, March 17, 2009 (AFP) - Spanish police on Tuesday detained a man who fooled dozens of banks into lending him nearly half a million euros which he then used to fund an anti-capitalism magazine...
CUPERTINO,(AFP) - Apple on Tuesday unveiled next-generation iPhone software with copy-paste and multimedia messaging features but no sign of much-coveted Flash for digital video.
Apple gave...
US prosecutors on Tuesday targeted the two sons of investment fraudster Bernard Madoff as part of a widening attempt to recover billions of stolen dollars.
Prosecutors filed papers showing their...
Terminally ill British reality television star Jade Goody is too ill for a visit from Bollywood actress and one-time nemesis Shilpa Shetty, her publicist said Monday.
Goody, 27, sparked uproar...