Colombo, Aug 7, 2006 - Fifteen local employees of a French aid agency have been found dead in a Sri Lankan town that is at the centre of heavy fighting between Tamil rebels and government forces, an aid group said Sunday.
Beijing, Aug 7, 2006 - An explosion on a bus in central China's Hunan province on Sunday evening has left eight people dead and another 19 injured, state media said.
London, Aug 7, 2006 - British homes may be given individual energy audits in an effort to encourage them to reduce their contribution to global warming, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday.
Baalbek, Lebanon, Aug 7, 2006 - Israeli warplanes early Monday carried out a dozen raids in east Lebanon, hitting roads linking the region with Syria, Lebanese police said without reporting any victims.
Manila, Aug 7, 2006 - Philippine authorities warned Monday that a potentially devastating eruption of the rumbling Mayon volcano was imminent and urged more evacuations from its lower slopes.
Colombo, Aug 7, 2006 - A French aid agency said it was trying to find out who shot dead 15 of its employees in northern Sri Lanka but that government troops had sealed off the scene of the massacre.
Paris, Aug 7, 2006 - The biggest-ever council of war on AIDS opens next Sunday, a quarter-century after the disease, surfacing among American gays, took its first step in a global rampage that has now claimed more than 25 million lives.
Washington, Aug 7, 2006 - The US gay community won credit on the run-up to a UN AIDS conference for mobilizing against a virus that decimated its ranks in the 1980s and for raising society's awareness as well as state funding for research.
San Francisco, Aug 7, 2006 - Twenty-five years ago a mysterious disease that came to be known as AIDS cut a deadly swathe through San Francisco.
Johannesburg, Aug 7, 2006 - Although it has more than 60 percent of the world's HIV/AIDS cases, Africa is still struggling to provide anti-retroviral therapy to the millions who could benefit from it.
Dakar, Aug 7, 2006 - Senegal lost no time in mobilising after HIV/AIDS first appeared in the 1980s, and is now regarded as Africa's pioneer in the fight against the scourge with its low prevalence rates the envy of many.
Chennai, India, Aug 7, 2006 - The room is filled with voices raised in healthy competition. A quiz is in progress but with an unusual topic -- condoms.
Qiudian Village, China, Aug 7, 2006 - After years of coping with the discrimination that accompanies being an AIDS sufferer in a rural Chinese village, Cheng Xiaolan and Feng Xiaoqiao are each other's only friends.
Moscow, Aug 7, 2006 - Russia's HIV and AIDS sufferers are not getting the treatment they need despite a dramatic boost in funding because of weak administration, activists will tell a major conference in Canada.
Paris, Aug 7, 2006 - Here are landmarks in the history of AIDS:
Paris, Aug 7, 2006 - Quotes illustrating the history of AIDS ahead of the 16th International AIDS Conference, running in Toronto, Canada, from Aug 13-18.
