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The Vatican Wednesday defended Pope Benedict's opposition to the use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS as activists, doctors and politicians criticized it as unrealistic, unscientific and dangerous.

What's last thing people want in a recession? More kids, apparently.

A 15-YEAR-old schoolgirl in northeast England earned about £14,000 ($30,641) over two months by working as a prostitute. Her unusual weekend job was exposed when a teacher at her school in South Shields, near Newcastle, found condoms, lubricant and details of the agency she worked for in her school bag.

The recent appointment of Michael Sidibe of Mali as the new director of the United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids), the main advocacy body in the global fight against HIV, the deadly virus that causes Aids, could mark a significant turning point in the way the organisation handles its mandate in the political and scientific spheres of the deadly disease.