(Beijing) Chinese officials anxious to prevent huge numbers attending the Olympics from either contracting or passing on HIV are placing close to a half-million condoms in hotel rooms. Beijing health official Jin Dapeng told the Xinhua news agency that the condoms are being placed nightly on beds in hotels with a ...

(Buenos Aires) Two intensive-care patients contracted HIV after receiving blood transfusions at public hospitals in the Argentine province of Cordoba, a newspaper reported Friday. An unidentified donor gave blood at a Cordoba city hospital in December, testing negative for HIV, Health Minister Oscar Gonzalez was quoted by Cordoba's La Voz del ...

(Rabuor, Kenya) Loyce Mbewa-Ong'udi was late. Family and friends milled around her parents' house in the green hills overlooking Lake Victoria, waiting for the daughter from America to return home. At last the taxi bounced over the ruts and made a sharp turn into the compound of small brick and stucco ...

(Mumbai, India) More than 600 people -  three times the number organizers expected - marched through Mumbai on the weekend in the city's first gay pride parade. While the parade had the marking of most Western pride celebrations, marchers also carried a strong message to the government - repeal the laws ...

(Berlin) Police are searching for vandals who damaged a monument to gay victims of the Nazis in the German capital. The monument, a gray concrete slab with a window allowing visitors to view a film projected inside that shows gay men and lesbians kissing, sits on the edge of Tiergarten Park ...

(London) M15, Britain's domestic spy agency, has begun looking for gays and lesbians to help it keep tabs on threats to the country. The agency has contracted with LGBT rights group Stonewall to help it recruit members of the community and to encouraged gays already in the service to come out. The ...

(San Francisco, California) In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that doctors cannot withhold care to gays and lesbians based on their religious beliefs. The Court was considering the case of a woman who was denied fertility treatments because she is a lesbian and was not married. The case ...

(Chicago, Illinois) Barack Obama will publicly disclose his vice presidential choice in the coming days, though the Democrat is keeping most aides who are preparing for the announcement in the dark and giving away nothing to voters as he campaigns. The Illinois senator has staffers in place to aid the No. ...

(Washington) Modern political conventions are like a Super Bowl minus the game. They are the bling on the body politic: shiny, pretty and a touch goofy. They exist to be seen, more than to do. They are like a Miss America pageant where the fix is in. The Olympic opening and closing ...