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22 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV
Condoms could make AIDS worse, says Pope

Britain showing signs of heading towards 1930's-style depression, says Bank of England

Left-wing wins El Salvador presidency for first time in 18 years

Secret Red Cross report says US practiced torture

Claims of British collusion in torture spread to Egypt

Sharif defies ban to back lawyers' long march

Likud reaches coalition accord with far right

Pakistan reinstates sacked judge

Vatican prelate: Doctors didn't deserve excommunication for abortion on 9-year-old

Pakistan arrests opposition leader Nawaz Sharif; fears of civil unrest pervade

AIG to pay $165 million in bonuses despite bailout

Madagascar's opposition says it ousted government

Bolivian president asks landowners to give up property for redistribution

Probe: Fed agency responsible for protecting public from toxics ignored health hazards

House report says officials from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 'deny, delay, minimize, trivialize or ignore legitimate health concerns'

Secret emails show Iraq dossier was deliberately 'sexed up'

US households' net worth tumbles $11 trillion; a decline that equals the combined output of Germany, Japan, and the U.K.

China worried about US treasuries

Obama takes US closer to total ban on cluster bomb exports

NAACP accuses Wells Fargo, HSBC of steering well-qualified blacks into subprime loans

Pope admits mistakes in holocaust-denying bishop case

Shoe-thrower gets 3 years

Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted

Obama's intelligence pick resigns, blames Israel lobby for forcing him out

Intelligence officials: Iran lacks nuclear bomb fuel

Chinese exports plunge 25.7% in February

Congress eases travel & remittance restrictions on Cuba

US Supreme Court narrows interpretation of Voting Rights Act; reduces political clout of minorities, say critics

Obama orders review of Bush's signing statements, says he will continue to issue them in limited circumstances

Saudi court sentences 75 year old woman to 40 lashes, 4 months in jail for mingling with men

Former Israeli president to be indicted for rape

McClatchy newspapers slashes 1,600 jobs, cuts workforce by 1/3

Bolivia expells US diplomat for allegedly conspiring with opposition groups

Buffett sees 'close to worse case' outlook for US economy

Obama team asks court to dismiss case against John Yoo, author of 'torture memo'

Bill seeks to let nearly insolvent FDIC borrow $500 billion

U.S., Syria find 'common ground' in talks in first high level contact since 2005

British govt takes over Lloyds with 75% stake

Bank of America interfering with probe into Merrill bonuses, says Cuomo

Palestinian PM resigns to pave way for unity govt

Obama to lift restrictions on stem cell funding

Karl Rove to testify over prosecutor firings

California Supreme Court weighs gay marriage ban

South Korea diverts jetliners over North Korean threats

No jail for Canadian who beheaded bus passanger

One Knight in Congress

Philippine President pardons assassins

World stocks tumble on AIG loss

Govt gives AIG $30 billion more

AIG posts $61.7 billion loss; largest in corporate history
White house won't rule out future aid
AIG has recieved $150 billion to date

CIA admits destroying 100 tapes of terror interrogations, many more than previously known

Soldiers assasinate Guinea-Bissau president

Soldiers get revenge for slaying of army leader, president's chief rival

Paper: Obama's helicopter schematic breached via P2P

Britain admits collusion with American torture program

Obama lifts photo ban on Iraq war dead

US may boycott UN racism conference over document critical of Israel

California unemployment rate tops 10 percent

Hate groups grow; blame Obama, immigrants for economy

Citigroup's third rescue may not be its last, analysts say

US GDP shrinks 6.2 percent: Sharpest drop since '82

FDIC to double fees for banks, charge emergency fee to rebuild depleted insurance fund

Many Dems dismayed at Obama decision to leave 50,000 troops in Iraq

Netanyahu fails in last-ditch bid for unity coalition

Paves way for rightist government

Treasury to provide "virtually unlimited" solvency guarantee to 19 largest banks

Obama budget anticipates needing another $250 billion to rescue banks

House set to act on bill letting judges lower interest rates, principal on home loans

Obama to halt plan to ship nuclear waste to Nevada

Japan logs biggest trade deficit on record

Effort to allocate house seats to DC clears major hurdle

China cracks down on human rights lawyers

Obama to announce plan to bring most troops home in 18 months

Desperate Gordon Brown plans £500 billion bank gamble to save economy

Clinton urges China to buy US Treasuries

Irish stage Dublin's 'largest protest in living memory' over spending cuts

Britain fearful middle-class anger at economic crisis could erupt into violence

Obama draws fire for terror detainee moves

Secret US unit trains commandos in Pakistan

Obama administration: Detainees held without charge in Afghanistan do not have any Constitutional right to challenge their detention

Human rights on backburner as Clinton pushes China on climate change, financial crisis

EU denounces members for involvement in US renditions

UN: Iran has enough uranium to build nuclear bomb

Britain's Major General Andy Salmon, left, former head of coalition operations in South East Iraq, shakes hands with US General Michael Oates to hand over military command of coalition forces in Basra, at a ceremony at Basra International Airport, Iraq, Tuesday March 31, 2009. The ceremony is seen as the start of the final withdrawl of British troops from Iraq.(AP Photo)