The discovery of a 50-year-old human tissue sample in an African university shows that HIV/AIDS pandemic in humans originated at least three decades earlier than previously thought. Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and lead author of the study suggests that AIDS may have been triggered by rapid urbanization in west-central Africa during the early 20th century and the virus most likely started circulating among humans in sub-Saharan Africa sometime between 1884 and 1924.

An Illinois man is suing a priest for stealing his wife. Stephen Crane is suing on the grounds that he and his wife, Maureen, went to see the priest, Christopher Floss, at their church for marital counseling.

A woman has died in Spain of the human version of mad cow disease, following the death of her son in February of the same disease, Spain's Ministry of Health says. This marks the first time that two members of the same family have died of the disease, health researchers say.

After years of debate over the definition of planets in the solar system, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced a new member in the family of dwarf planets. USA Today reported that astronomers have changed previously known as 2003 EL61 to Haumea, after the goddess of childbirth and fertility in Hawaiian mythology.

Elisabeth Fritzl, the woman who was locked in a cellar for 24 years by her father, who raped her and fathered her children, has spoken out about what her life was like while kept prisoner by her domineering father. In an interview with an Austrian judge, Elisabeth, 42, said that her father, Josef, raped her at least three times a week for all those years. Of the seven children he fathered with her, three lived in the cellar, while three were chosen by Josef to be raised in the house by he and his wife. One child died in infancy, and Josef reportedly incinerated the baby's corpse.