Taking the stand for the first time since she was snatched, Elizabeth Smart testified that her captor raped her three or four times a day.
The World Health Organization (WHO) called for girls' and women's healthcare reform on Monday in Geneva.
Marelisa Gibson, a 20-year-old brunette, has been crowned Miss Venezuela and will represent the beauty-obsessed South American country at next year's Miss Universe pageant.
France's most politically-charged trial in years is to begin Monday with former prime minister Villepin accused of plotting to smear Sarkozy before he became president.
Madonna brings her 'Sticky & Sweet' tour to the Romanian capital on August 26. At the age of 51, she is still the queen of pop in the world.
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse in southern Siberia's Tuva region August 3, 2009.
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy descend rocks into the Mediterranean Sea below the villa on the secluded promontory of Cap Negre.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy performs at The Mandela Day concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York July 18, 2009.
On Tuesday, the first flight for Pet Airways, the first-ever all-pet airline, took off from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, NY.
Nick Vujicic, 26, was born without legs or arms, but has a life without limits.
Born at dawn of last centuary in 1905, the twin centenarians are recorded in Guinness Book as the world's oldest twins.
A Belgian teenager is suing a tattoo artist whom she says covered half her face with stars while she was asleep.
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