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The number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus each year has been holding steady at about 50,000, according to a government report released Wednesday.

Ex-News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner, has been released on bail after he was arrested in the phone-hacking probe.

KUALA LUMPUR, (AP):Malaysia began registering up to two million illegal immigrant workers yesterday in an amnesty program aimed at managing waves of foreigners seeking menial jobs unwanted by Malaysians....

MOGADISHU, (AP) Muslims around the world mark sundown during the holy month of Ramadan with extravagant dinners to break their daily fasts. That kind of nighttime celebration is unthinkable this year for most Somalis, who already are suffering empty stomachs...

KIEV, (AP):Rescue workers have found the bodies of all the Ukrainian miners missing after accidents at two coal mines in the east of the country.

The US Congress is expected to vote today on a last-minute agreement to raise the federal government's debt ceiling while imposing sweeping spending cuts.

JERUSALEM (AP):HUNDREDS OF Israel's doctors are demonstrating in Jerusalem, stepping up their protest for higher wages and better hospital conditions.Last week, doctors marched to Jerusalem and pitched tents, echoing a grass-roots movement of tent camps...

KIEV (AP):Rescue workers have found the bodies of all the Ukrainian miners missing after accidents at two coal mines in the east of the country.

MOSCOW (AP):AN OVERLOADED motorboat crashed into a docked barge on the Moscow River in predawn darkness Sunday, killing nine of the 16 people on board, officials said.

Hosni Mubarak's trial on charges he ordered the killing of protesters during Egypt's uprising will be held at a police academy on Cairo's outskirts instead of a convention centre in the heart of the capital, the head of Cairo's appeals court said yesterday.

The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and youth-camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has told investigators he also considered attacking other targets linked to the government or the prime minister's Labour Party, police said yesterday.

More than 250,000 South African gold miners went on strike yesterday, seeking higher wages and a cut of profits from soaring gold prices, a union representative said.