But the report is also expected to show that the rate of new HIV infections is decreasing in several countries.

Over 39m people are currently estimated to be living with the virus that can lead to patients developing Aids.

The report is also due to call for prevention programmes to be strengthened and sustained to reduce the spread of HIV/Aids.

The report, due to be released o...

But first things first - the most revealing sentence I find in the speech is a more general statement one can read as a key to the Yoffie state of mind these days: "The problem for our synagogues may be," says Yoffie, "that we are not very good at saying 'no' in Reform Judaism... In the realm of personal behavior, we are reluctant to ever use the word 'forbidden'." This, he believes, should...

The world could use more dialogue about its differences — a little understanding goes a long way. There are many online forums where people with different perspectives yell at each other and hurl abuse. There aren't so many where completely different points of view are expressed rationally and constructively. That's why The World Forum was created.

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In January 1996, Gebauer says, VW sent a dozen of its top German labor leaders to Brazil for a tour of the company's Sao Paulo facilities and meetings with local Brazilian union officials.

After finishing the official portion of the trip, Gebauer says he and the other men took a bus to Rio de Janeiro and checked into the Othon Palace, a high-rise hotel on the city's famous Copacabana be...

aul Theroux, the prolific author of wide-ranging travelogues from around the world, takes another voyage for his latest novel, "Blinding Light."

But this time the trip is inward, and the natives are smug, self-centered white people.

"Blinding Light," Theroux's latest stab at blending real life with real fiction and making the reader wonder where the boundaries are, is also his self...

Reprinted with permission from Commentary , October 2005

Not long ago, a Manhattan rabbi stunned his congregants by informing them that the future of the Jewish people would be secured not through trips to Israel, not through the battle against anti-Semitism, and not through the continued upward mobility of Jews, but in the bedroom. What shocked his sophisticated Upper East Side audience ...

A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute conducted a meta-analysis of all the published data on the link between diabetes and the prevalence and associated mortality from colorectal cancer. The analysis was conducted by Susanna C. Larsson, M.Sc., of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and colleagues. The researchers found that having diabetes meant that individu...

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Most of the world's great cities have been in love with vertical living for decades, their glamorous high-rise apartment houses standing as expressions of wealth, power and success. Now, with more than 100 new cathedrals of glass and steel in the works, London is coming round to the idea too. Swimming pools at 400 ft? No problem. Bathtubs with views of the London Eye? Even better.

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Print-friendly version Conservative Minnesotans get first taste of sex convention

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesotans, proud descendants of conservative Nordic and German settlers, residents of the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes once governed by a professional wrestler by the name of Jesse "The Body" Ventura have something else to brag or blush about: Their first sex convention.

With exhibitors...