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Gay men will be allowed to give blood after Government restrictions were officially lifted, but only if they haven't had sex with another man in the past 12 months.

A Conservative MP has blasted the David Cameron’s decision to impose a three-line whip on today’s referendum vote saying that “British people should have the right to decide the future direction of the U.K.’s European relationship”.

Simon McClure, 38, has been sentenced to spend two years and six months in prison, for deliberately infecting his ex-lover with the HIV virus.

Catgate, which derived from a Theresa May's claim that a Bolivian immigrant avoided deportation due to his pet cat, has rocked the cabinet and the Home Secretary's credibility, with the judiciary even commenting on the affair.

The World Health Organisation has revealed that there has been a significant rise in Europe of the rate of infections of TB. The WHO reports that there is a worldwide pandemic, killing 1.7 million people each year with 440,000 new patients being diagnosed with the disease around the world.

Gene scientists from the U.S. and Japan working with aids have created green glowing cats as part of their work to beat the illness Sky News has revealed.

Jamie Foxx has been announced as the host of the Michael Jackson tribute concert taking place in at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on October 8.

Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Motown veteran Smokey Robinson are set to perform at a tribute concert in honour of Michael Jackson, reports BBC News

A tribute concert dedicated to the late legend Michael Jackson will take place in Cardiff, revealed several members of his family.

China has recently been at the forefront of the International scene as it leads a diplomatic offensive which proves that it wants to enlarge its sphere of influence further away from the Asian pacific zone.With the Libyan conflict, China has broken away from one of its golden rule by formally recognizing the rebels' National Council and getting actively involved in peace talks, thus interfering in a country's domestic affairs.

First Lady Michelle Obama urged young Africans on Wednesday to fight for women's rights and battle the stigma of AIDS while using her husband's "yes, we can" campaign slogan to try and motivate youth across the continent.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged £814m to help vaccinate children around the world against preventable diseases like pneumonia at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) conference in London.

As Zimbabwe's next elections, originally planned for 2011, are now called into question, the media in the West as well as in Africa announce that "divisions are re-surfacing in Zimbabwe's constitutional-revision process as the ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe has accused the Movement for Democratic Change of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of dragging out the process to postpone elections."

As the two-day G8 summit is set to start today in Deauville, much hype has been made of the need for the group of states to discuss and decide new policies on matters including supporting new regimes in North Africa and the Middles East or reviewing Japan's nuclear crisis and discuss new policies regarding nuclear power.