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Experts rethinking billions spent on AIDS

... or diarrhea. "If we look at the data objectively, we are spending too much on AIDS," said Dr. Malcolm Potts, an AIDS expert at the University of California in Berkeley, who once worked with prostitutes on the front lines of the epidemic in Ghana.

Alleged penis-snatchers spark panic in Congo

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released. "I'm tempted to ...

Shirley Temple breaks arm before 80th b-day

Congress in 1967 and then became a diplomat, serving as ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Ghana. In recent years, Black has lived quietly in Woodside, Calif., an upscale town in Silicon Valley south of San Francisco. “I’m spending my birthday ...

Should your child have a 'gap year' before college?

It’s perfectly OK to deviate from the plan once the year begins, but starting without one is a recipe for disaster. Which programs are worth a year off? From building houses in the inner city to teaching English in Ghana, we’ve got the goods on ...

Observer calls Zimbabwe vote recount 'flawed'

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for help as the two met for about half an hour in Ghana's capital, Accra, where the U.N. chief is attending a trade conference. Tsvangirai asked Ban "for an intervention by the African Union and the United Nations since ...