Anti-HIV Gel Fails Trial. Tough!

Hopes of a breakthrough that would allow women to protect themselves from HIV have been dashed with today’s revelation from a large, British-funded trial that a promising microbicide has turned out to be ineffective. Britain’s Medical Research Council (MRC) and the department for international development (DfID) had...

HIV-positive German pop star guilty

German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a member of all-female pop group No Angels with causing bodily harm for failing to inform sexual partners that she was HIV positive. Nadja Benaissa, 27 (second from left in picture above), had sex on five occasions between 2000...

Savage Cuts to Hurt Poorest Schools, Opposition Says

Government plans to cut spending on schools have come under intense attack from members of the opposition after it emerged that such cuts will see standards dwindle to record levels in the poorest schools across the country. Addressing the teachers unions at Kisowera, the former...

Cambridge Uni offers place to 14-year-old

Arran Fernandez to become youngest Cambridge student since Pitt the Younger – if he passes physics A-level A 14-year-old maths prodigy is on the verge of breaking a 237-year-old record by becoming the youngest Cambridge University undergraduate since William Pitt the Younger. Arran Fernandez, from Surrey, has...

Forget M7, Politico is the Real Political News in 2010

The convention that kicks off on Monday in Denver and will crown Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate will be a transforming moment in politics. But it could be just as big a spectacle in the annals of American media and technology, the...

SPECIAL REPORT: Living Postively with HIV/AIDS

Cape Town – Zuzile Hlongwane (not her real name) is a 26-year-old HIV-positive woman from Johannesburg who is battling to accept her status. She contracted the disease three years ago from her former boyfriend, who she says she can never forgive. “I trusted him, I...