Video: 69 year old Minnesota governor collapses during state speech

Mark Dayton, the 69 year old governor of Minnesota fainted during his state of the state address on Monday. "Tonight, Gov. Dayton briefly fainted after speaking for about 40 minutes. He quickly recovered, walked out of the Capitol and returned home," his chief of staff, Jaime Tincher said.

EMTs on scene performed a routine check on the governor at the Capitol and cleared him to go home. The governor has since returned home to be with his family and plans to present his 2017 budget Tuesday morning as planned. Video of the event showed aides rushing to catch Dayton before he fell to the floor.

Former President George Bush may be out of the hospital this week (Photo)

Ailing former US president George H.W. Bush will be moved out of the Houston Methodist Hospital Intensive Care Unit soon but he will remain in the hospital for now, his doctor said in a news conference.

"A Friday discharge might be a little bit optimistic, It's a bit of a moving target" Dr. Clint Doerr told reporters.

However, former First Lady Barbara Bush who was hospitalized with her hubby has been discharged from the hospital.

The former president's doctors said he is in good spirits, as well as sitting up and watching television.

Wow! Who could have been this wicked to a dog (photos)

This is animal cruelty at it's peak! Why would someone treat his or her dog like this? A severely malnourished 1 year old dog named Malachi has been found on the streets of Cleveland weighing 19 pounds - a massive underweight for the dog's age.

According to a dog rescue and motherless dogs home, who rescued the dog, Malachi isn't a stray dog and was most likely starved for a long period before he was thrown out to the streets.

Venus Williams makes history at Australian Open

Venus Williams may be old in tennis terms, but she is proving once again that quality precedes age. The 36-year-old beat Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4 7-6 (7-3) on Tuesday, to become the oldest women's semifinalist at the Australian Open in the Open Era.

Venus succeeded in beating her younger sister Serena's record, who was 34 last year in reaching the last four at Melbourne Park. And with Serena still in contention -- the 22-time grand slam winner meets Britain's Johanna Konta in her quarterfinal Wednesday -- a first all-Williams grand slam final since 2009 at Wimbledon is moving ever closer.

Gambia’s New President Appoints Woman As VP

Fatoumata Tambajang, the Gambia’s political change agent has been appointed as the new Vice President of the new government of President Adama Barrow.

Tambajang has ever been a good mediator engaging opposition parties to create a credible gender-balanced coalition for the 2016 National Elections which resulted to her election as Chair of the Coalition that fought to effect a regime change.

"Laugh all you want, my vagina is cured, my husband a happy man" says SA woman 'healed' with pastor's shoe

The woman whose vagina pimples was cured with pastor's shoe says she doesn’t care if people are laughing at her as she has been cured.   Kedibone Buffel, 33, from Caleb Motshabi kasi in Mangaung became famous after a video showing the pastor's shoe being placed between her legs during a service at the Victorious Faith Ministries Church, South Africa on New Year’s Day, went viral Kedibone said she doesn’t care what people think because her marriage had been saved.

Fayose Starts Early Assignment As PDP Governors’ Forum Chairman

The Ekiti State Governor has started out early soon as he was bestowed with the position. Already he has visited former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel ‘talking’ him back to the party. He visited Mr Daniel at home in Lagos. More photos below…