People passing by downtown Baguio city were shocked upon seeing artists, nursing students and gender rights activists parading a 30-foot condom on their shoulders. The colorful condom was the city's way of celebrating World AIDS Day, said Eden Divinagracia, executive director of the Philippine Non-Government Organization Council on Population Health and Welfare (PNGOC).

An Idaho gubernatorial candidate is so opposed to abortion that he has officially changed his name to Pro-Life. His single moniker name adds credence to his firm belief that he is "the most conservative politician in Idaho. " "When sperm meets egg, that's a new person," the candidate, formerly known as Marvin Richardson remarked from the conservative bedrock of Idaho. He changed his name in August, which unfortunately was not soon enough to allow it to replace his former name on the ballot. Voters will have to search him out by his Christian name.

A Los Angeles man is suing a sperm bank for negligence and emotional distress after discovering a hidden camera in the ceiling of the sperm bank's "donation room. " In a June 2005 visit to Pasadena's Pacific Reproductive Services, 27-year-old Ken Rigberg discovered the pinhole camera.

An Italian judge says the country's public health service should pay for a Mafia's boss' efforts to father a baby through artificial insemination, even though he is serving a life sentence for murder. A judge ruled Salvino Madonia should be allowed to purse fatherhood through artificial means, despite his highly publicized murder of a businessman in 1991.

Ian Mucklejohn is the UK's first man to have his own children without having a female partner. The 58-year-old businessman decided to contact an American egg donor, have her eggs fertilized with his sperm in California and pay a surrogate to carry the babies. If he had done it in the UK, it would have been illegal.