A man from New York will attempt for the third time to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Verde in western Africa to the New York harbor in the U.S. in December to raise awareness on AIDS.

Victor Mooney, 43, of Forest Hills will use the boat Never Give Up donated by French adventurer Charlie Girard in rowing from San Antao to the Brooklyn Bridge on December 1 or World AIDS Day.

Robert Pattinson raised $80,000 to kiss two teenage girls. The "Twilight" star auctioned off two "pecks on the cheek" at the star-studded amfAR charity benefit at the Cannes Film Festival last night.

The 23-year-old actor was sitting at a table with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana at the lavish Hotel du Cap when movie mogul Harvey Weinstein suggested Pattinson sell a smooch.

Katy Perry wears her grandmother's clothes. The "I Kissed A Girl" singer has no qualms about wearing items from her elderly relative's wardrobe, insisting she will don anything if she thinks it suits her.

She said: "It doesn't matter who makes it, where it comes from, whether it's your grandmother's closet or it's a couture showroom. If it looks good on you, wear it!"

Police have arrested a man who they say tried to rob a pharmacy using a syringe filled with what he claimed was the AIDS virus.

According to reports, the man walked into a west Tampa pharmacy on Thursday and ordered the clerk to give him Oxycodone pills. His hands were in his pockets, but the man said he had a hypodermic syringe filled with the virus. After employees argued with him, he ran off.

Young American women between the ages 15 to 19 who got pregnant went up by 3.4 percent, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. It is the second straight year that teen birthrates rose in 2006 to 2007, reversing 14 consecutive years of declines.

In 2005 to 2006, teen birthrates grew 1.4 percent.