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Three prospective school teachers have appealed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to end discrimination against people with HIV after they said they were wrongly denied teaching jobs because their employers discovered they had the virus that causes AIDS.

The self-confessed terrorist was psychotic during the July 2011 massacre, according to psychologists. If the court upholds their findings, Breivik will be committed to a psychiatric ward with no prison time and could be released if found mentally fit. The findings contradict earlier assumptions by psychologists, and shock a country still reeling from the death of 77 citizens.

Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik was and is insane, two psychiatrists told the Oslo District Court on Tuesday.

George Harrison was, to many observers, the most ‘intriguing’ and ‘interesting’ Beatle since he seemed to have no comfortable ‘place’ in the group.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed to break an impasse with opposition parties and his own political allies demanding a rollback of a reform allowing foreign supermarket giants to enter the country's $450 billion market.

Benetton’s controversial ‘Unhate’ advertising campaign featuring national leaders kissing each other, has been unveiled along the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv and other Israeli highways.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that looks to reinstate pizzas and French fries on lunch menus of federally funded schools. This follows an earlier proposal that threatened to remove the food items from the menu.

The Israeli Defense Ministry issued an apology Monday, for mistreating Pulitzer Prize-winning American news photographer Lynsey Addario, who was in Israel recently on a New York Times assignment.

The complexity fills everybody with such appalling fear. ... The honest answer is that, like everybody else, you try and contingency plan for any breakup of the eurozone.

Orlando Police Monday named ex-fiancé as the prime suspect in the case of a woman who went missing after appearing on a taped episode “The People's Court.

Asian shares and the euro extended a rally into a second day Tuesday as investors were buoyed by expectations that European policy makers will outline details of how they will leverage a bailout fund to avert contagion in sovereign debt markets.

Ministers from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan met in Kabul to strengthen cooperation against the opium trade. More than 90 percent of the world's opium comes from Afghanistan, with most of it transiting through Iran and Pakistan.

These are sad days for Republican Presidential hopeful Herman Cain, who has been accused of a 13-year-long extramarital affair and faced scandalous allegations of sexual misconduct by four other women, all within the span of a month.

The 34-year-old woman has been arrested in London after her tirade of abuse on her fellow passengers on a tram was filmed and uploaded on to YouTube.

Many major retailers are extending their special deals and discounts for the entire week in an effort to attract shoppers at the start of the holiday season. Cyber Week 2011 offers a great opportunity for shoppers to get deals at Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy and Toys R US from Monday, Nov. 28 to Saturday, Dec. 3.

Ginger White, an Atlanta businesswoman, claims she had a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. White broke her silence about their liaison on FOX 5 in Atlanta late Monday.

Bing has put together a fascinating history that marks this year's most important people, events and celebrity stars. The search engine company created aggregated lists from billions of search queries to create the most searched of 2011 people, news stories, sports stars, musicians, consumer electronics, TV shows, movies and celebrity events.

Chevron officials will have to prepare a briefing to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement in the coming days following an oil leak earlier this month off the coast of Brazil.

Presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday refuted a story that is yet to break. He told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that a story will break on Monday night in which a woman is “going to accuse me of an affair for an extended period of time.”

Lana Peters, only daughter and last surviving child of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, died last week of colon cancer at the age of 85.

Iran continues to tell Israel and the United States that any attack will have dire consequences on Zionist regimes.

Texas officials have asked the U.S. Supreme court to block an interim restricting plan imposed by a federal court, which rejected a plan by the state legislature after critics argued it did not increase opportunities for minority representation.

At stake is the possible dissolution of the Kyoto Accord, whose commitment period expires in 2012. Japan and Russia announced last year in Cancun they are against any extension or renewal of the accord if big green house gas emitters like the United States and China are excluded.

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., on Monday announced his retirement from elected office at the end of his current term.

This December, 500 young Ron Paul supporters will travel around Iowa and New Hampshire to get out the vote for the Texas congressman's presidential campaign. The effort, dubbed Christmas Vacation with Ron Paul, is part of Paul's grassroots campaign strategy.

The women collected semen from the brutalized men for some mysterious reasons.

A small business owner in Georgia has been overwhelmed with media attention after a picture of a company truck with a sign stating New company policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone went viral.

Rebel group al-Shabab raided a number of humanitarian organizations in Somalia on Monday, adding a militant exclamation point to their new ban on 16 aid agencies working in the famine-stricken country.

The planned retirement of Congressman Barney Frank, D-Mass., leaves the Democratic party lacking in the YouTube mojo department. Partisan sniping aside, Frank was a regular source of one-liners and playful harassment of his legislative colleagues and TV talking heads.