Italy will open one of the world’s first prisons for transgender prisoners. The prison is expected to house inmates who mainly have convictions for drug-related offences and prostitution.
Job market In South Africa faces trying times, unless the government’s efforts to protect existing jobs and provide incentives for new employment are doubled.
Benin missed a golden opportunity to win their first ever match at the African Nations Cup.
Game Change Book Excerpt: Bill Clinton Furious, angered the liberal icon by belittling Obama. A much-awaited book reports that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had a strained relationship during the campaign.
Sean Goldman will be returned to his father, five years after his mother kidnapped him and brought him to Brazil. The Brazilian family that fought to keep a 9-year-old New Jersey boy in South America has agreed to turn him over to his father.
Gov. Luis Francisco Cuellar was kidnapped Monday and killed by alleged rebels. At the end of a day of anguish and frustration, President Alvaro Uribe soberly told Colombians that kidnappers had slit the throat of a southern governor during the country’s first major political abduction since he took office in 2002.
For some factors, Mega-swindler Bernard Madoff has been quietly transferred to a prison medical facility, federal officials said Wednesday.
Brittany Murphy funeral: Actress to be laid to rest on Christmas Eve. The body of actress Brittany Murphy has been released to a storied Hollywood memorial park where a private service is reportedly scheduled for Christmas Eve.
Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel tells New York not to fear health care reform – he’ll safeguard state. Everyone crying that health care reform will bleed New York dry should calm down, says Rep. Charles Rangel — he is going to get us a better deal.
Golfers knew about Tiger Woods’ cheating on wife Elin Nordegren and kept their mouths shut, while Helen Alfredsson broke silence.