A vaginal ring that releases antiretroviral drugs into women's systems to prevent HIV transmission during sex will be tested for the first time in Africa.

Maternal and child health projects around the world will receive a fresh push from a new 1.5 billion US dollars project over the next five years.

Renewed violence in Darfur killed at least 597 people in May, making it the deadliest month since peacekeepers were deployed to the conflict-ridden west Sudan region in January 2008.

President Obama rarely gets pissed. He's pretty unflappable. He was like that as a Senator. He was like that on the campaign trail. He doesn't get "visibly" angry. He doesn't necessarily get super excited either. He's just mellow yellow, all the time. This, apparently, bothers some. Especially when it comes to the BP oil spill in the Gulf.

A new report by environmental lobby groups claims that the world could produce 95 per cent of electricity from renewable energies by 2050 in a proposal that would allegedly bring long-term economic benefits and create around 12 million jobs in the next two decades.

And so it is. The weeks of pledges, sound bites, newspaper backing, heckling, debating and opinion polls are over. Today Britain goes to the polling stations and the latest polls, as rudimentary and unreasonable as they are, suggest it is going to be a hung parliament. Of course it wasn’t meant to be like this. It was supposed to be over long ago.

While President Obama was making history by signing bills into law and just breathing while being leader of the free world (as always), something horrible was happening to my poor Mittens. And by Mittens, I'm talking Mitt "Mr. Insincerity" Romney. The Romninator. Guy Smiley.

In the event Barack Obama wasn't already aware of just how big a deal the healthcare bill is, Joe Biden told President Obama in no uncertain terms that he had done a good job. Just a shame that he used an expletive while the mic was on. We still love you, Joe! See the video after the jump.

In July 2003, four Havana University engineering students made the 90 mile trip from Cuba to Florida, floating on a Buick they had fitted with an engine — they had built a car boat from scratch. Despite their talent and resourcefulness, they were sent back under the ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy: Cubans who reach dry land can stay, those who are intercepted in the water are sent back.

It's all a slippery slope. Isn't that what we on the left have been saying all along? That if you deny the rights of non-Americans it's only a matter of time before people start thinking the Bill of Rights was printed in invisible ink. Right now Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman are floating a bill that would allow for American citizens to be detained without charge. Sure it's unconstitutional, but that's never stopped them before.