With a wicker Basketball in hand, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark stepped out on her first full day of her summer vacation to do what most other holidaymaker would do -- go shopping

Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, on the run from death threats from Islamic militants, has returned to India to renew her visa, a rights activist said Saturday

Two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, whose wife is ill with incurable cancer, admitted Friday he had had an extramarital affair but denied fathering the woman`s baby

Two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, whose wife is ill with incurable cancer, admitted Friday he had had an extramarital affair, ABC News reported

SYDNEY, August 7, 2008 (AFP) - Hollywood star Nicole Kidman Thursday asked the paparazzi to back off while she and her country crooner husband Keith Urban show off their new baby in her home town.

MOSCOW, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest in a historic Moscow monastery on Wednesday after an ornate church service attended by President Dmitry Medvedev.

MOSCOW, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest in Moscow's historic Donskoy Monastery on Wednesday after an emotional service attended by President Dmitry Medvedev.

MOSCOW, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was buried in Moscow on Wednesday, toiled obsessively to expose the darkest secrets of Stalinist rule and ultimately dealt a crippling blow to the Soviet Union's authority.

Born in 1918 amid the bloody aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Solzhenitsyn was initially a loyal Communist.

MOSCOW, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest in Moscow on Wednesday, as his family and President Dmitry Medvedev looked on, live television images showed.

MOSCOW, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn was to be laid to rest in Moscow's historic Donskoy Monastery on Wednesday after a church service attended by President Dmitry Medvedev.