On the occasion of World AIDS Day on Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Michel Sidibe of Mali to head the world body's AIDS-fighting agency, UNAIDS, a spokeswoman said. Sidibe, 56, will start his new job as executive director of the UN AIDS program based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as UNAIDS deputy executive director since 2007. His predecessor,...

On Monday, a charity has said that Zimbabwe may be on the brink of an anthrax outbreak after the disease recently claimed three lives people and now threatens to wipe out livestock in northern Zimbabwe. This will only add to the nation's woes as it continues to struggle with cholera. Two children and one adult in the Zambezi Valley have died of the disease, which...