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The HIV infection rate is expected to rise by a whopping 52 percent this year, half due to intravenous drug use.

The number of foreign travelers to Japan plunged by more than 50 percent year-over-year during the three months following the March 11 catastrophe.

Joe the Plumber, who gained a bit of notoriety during the 2008 presidential campaign, has filed papers to run for Congress in Ohio, Politico reported.

Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced her to one year in prison and 90 lashes, according to The Associated Press.

California will continue offering filmmakers a 25 percent tax credit under a program Gov. Jerry Brown extended on Sunday.

The Canadian government was considering its options on Monday but made it clear that a strike at Air Canada would not be tolerated after flight attendants at the country's biggest carrier issued a 72-hour strike notice.

Prosecutors allege that Majeed conspired with Butt and Asif to fix parts of the Lord's Test between England and Pakistan last August.

The last official visit by a British representative to Zimbabwe was by Baroness Valerie Amos in 2001.

California teens are no longer allowed to use tanning beds after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.

The U.N. Mission in Afghanistan interviewed prisoners held by both the Afghan National Police and the National Directorate of Security, many of whom reported that they were tortured, beaten and subject to devices like electric shocks during interrogation sessions.

On issues ranging from racial prejudice to economic inequity, Cain has invoked his own ascendance as a template for success -- and suggested that those who fall short have only themselves to blame.

In some of his strongest rhetoric against the problem of illegal immigration to the United Kingdom, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has urged Britons to report such lawbreakers to the authorities so they can be deported.

At least one town in Alabama has warned undocumented immigrants that their water supply will be cut off if they cannot prove they are U.S. citizens.

Rep. Ron Paul won the Values Voter Summit's presidential straw poll, which was sponsored by the Christian conservative American Family Association and the Family Research Council.

Ben and Jerry’s board of directors issued a statement, saying To those who Occupy: We stand with you.

The antibiotic that has usually been used to treat the sexually transmitted disease, cefixime, is no longer effective.

Herman Cain is red hot. After winning the Florida Straw Poll, the Republican candidate for president has surged to the top of many polls in recent weeks. Yet perhaps because Cain, a former Godfather's Pizza CEO has never held an elected office, many American's profess they don't know much about him. Thus, here are 10 important things to know about Herman Cain, a GOP presidential race front-runner, courtesy of tidbits found in his new autobiography published last week, This is Herma...

The eight men were beheaded in Riyadh on Friday following conviction for the alleged killing of an Egyptian national in 2007.

In one week, North Korea will celebrate the 85th anniversary of the founding of The Down-with-Imperialism Union by Kim Il-sung, the father of the country's current leader Kim Jong-il. But the current focus in the Democratic People’s Republic is not on the father, but on the son, Kim Jong-un -- the North Korean heir-apparent.

The Topeka City Council is considering a move to repeal the section of it's city code that deals with domestic violence disputes.

U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a Staten Island Republican, is the second ally of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to endorse Mitt Romney for president.

One of the most deadly elements of the U.S. military, the Predator and Reaper drones, may have been targeted by a virus for more than two weeks, during which alleged al-Qaida terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Friday, that bans any sale, trade and possession of shark fins. The bill, which will come into effect on Jan. 1, 2012, was promulgated to protect the dwindling shark population.

The killing sparked violent clashes between Terreblanche’s white Afrikaner supporters in the northwestern town of Ventersdorp and the local black community.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners were announced on Friday, and for the first time, three women split the prize. But, after a weekend of celebration, peace still isn't ubiquitous in either Liberia or Yemen, the homes of the laureates.

California bans tanning bed use for all minors.

The bank, whose shares had plunged 42 percent last week, was poised to go bankrupt, a fatality of the Eurozone crisis.

The former chief executive of the Godfather Pizza chain now poses a serious challenge to front-runner Mitt Romney.

Libyan transitional government forces attacked Muammar Gaddafi's security headquarters in the center of his hometown of Sirte Monday, hoping that once the buildings had been captured the fight for the city would be won.