GENEVA – Swiss AIDS experts said Thursday that some people with HIV who meet strict conditions and are under treatment can safely have unprotected sex with non-infected partners. The proposal astonished AIDS researchers in Europe and North America who have long argued that safe sex with a condom is the …

EXETER, England – A bombing suspect arrested after a blast in the southwest English city of Exeter on Thursday is a vulnerable Islamic convert with mental illness who was taken advantage of and radicalized, police said. Police evacuated a large part of Exeter city center after a small explosion at …

TOKYO – Can lingerie really empower women? That’s what one company apparently was thinking in its quest to design a solar-powered bra capable of generating enough electricity to charge a cell phone or iPod, Reuters reported. Triumph International Japan showed off its “Solar Power Bra” on Wednesday in Tokyo, but …

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted a Missouri woman Thursday for her alleged role in a MySpace hoax on a teen neighbor who committed suicide after being spurned by the “boy” in the fake profile. Lori Drew, of Dardenne Prairie near St. Louis, was charged with one count …

NEW DELHI – An elephant rampaged through a village in northern India on Thursday, killing at least seven people and injuring 24 others who tried to surround it, a wildlife official said. The deaths were reported after a female elephant entered the village of Bhudaheda on the edge of the …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A 12-year-old girl has testified in court that she saw her father kill her mother and he then forced her to help dismember the body with a circular saw. Police said James Hawkins cleaned the saw and returned it to a store where he had obtained it. …

BEIJING – Companies suffered $9.5 billion in damage in last week’s quake in central China, the government said Monday. Some 14,207 companies in Sichuan province and surrounding areas were damaged by the May 12 quake and 1,387 of their employees killed, a deputy industry minister, Xi Guohua, said at a …

WASHINGTON – Russia has ordered two American military attaches at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to leave the country following the expulsion of a pair of Russian diplomats from Washington, U.S officials said Thursday. “We can confirm that the two individuals have been asked to leave,” said Gonzalo Gallegos, a …

BEIJING – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao now has a Facebook page. It’s not known who set up the profile on the popular social-networking Web site, but it’s clear the premier has some fans — with more than 13,000 “supporters” as of Wednesday, more than U.S. President George W. Bush has …

NEW YORK – A Claude Monet painting of a bridge with two trains passing over the Seine while pleasure boats float below was auctioned Tuesday for more than $41 million, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist artist. “Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil” was sold at …