World Cup fans fail to lift sex trade
2006-06-24 16:06:02
The hordes of beer-swilling men who have descended on Germany for the World Cup are proving a disappointment for the host nation's sex workers.
Man gets $400,000 for faulty penile implant
2006-06-25 14:06:45
A former handyman in America's Rhode Island has won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a penile implant that gave him a 10-year erection.
'More sex needed for Japanese'
2006-06-22 15:24:59
More sex. That's what one expert says is needed to solve Japan's baby shortage.
Booby-trapped bodies of two GIs recovered
2006-06-21 08:28:06
The US military recovered the bodies of two missing soldiers from an area it said was rigged with explosives. It is said they were tortured and killed in a "barbaric" way.
Study: Sept. 11 survivors still grieving
2006-05-26 14:42:34
Nearly two-thirds of the people who got counseling after the Sept. 11 attacks are still grieving, and more than four in 10 still need professional help to cope, according to a study sponsored by the American Red Cross.
Smoking and sex go hand-in-hand
2006-05-28 19:53:38
Australian brothel owners want an exemption to anti-smoking laws for sex workers and their clients because, they say, one thing leads to another.
WHO puts Tamiflu maker on bird flu alert
2006-05-27 17:00:19
The World Health Organization has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile after human-to-human transmission was suspected in a family in Indonesia.
Bird flu expands in Africa, Asia
2006-03-13 13:14:43
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected for the first time in poultry in Myanmar and Cameroon, officials in the two nations said.