You’ve got mail _ and possibly an STD: Brazil creates e-cards to inform partners of infection

September 30th, 2009 Honduras sets 10-day deadline on embassy standoffTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras is giving Brazil 10 days to decide what to do with ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who has been inside the Brazilian Embassy since sneaking back into the country last week. The government in charge since a June 28 coup that deposed Zelaya says it will take unspecified "additional measures" if Brazil does not define his status.

August 4th, 2009 Brazil forest group: Go green _ go in the showerRIO DE JANEIRO — New TV ads are encouraging Brazilians to save water — by urinating in the shower. Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Atlantica says the campaign, running on several television stations, uses humor to persuade people to reduce flushes.

July 18th, 2009 Postal worker gets 5 months for taking kids' cashSACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Northern California postal worker has been sentenced to five months in federal prison for stealing money from children's birthday cards.

June 30th, 2009 Byrd released from hospital after more than monthWASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Byrd's office says he's been released from the hospital and is at his Washington-area home recuperating from a more-than monthlong illness.

June 18th, 2009 Report: Boy in custody battle wants Brazil, not NJBRASILIA, Brazil — A transcript says a 9-year-old boy at the center of an international custody battle has told his psychologist he wants to stay with his stepfamily in Brazil rather than return to New Jersey with his biological father. Lawyers for the Brazilian family seeking custody of Sean Goldman on Wednesday released the transcript of a psychologist's interview with him.

June 4th, 2009 Lawmaker seeks Brazil sanctions over custody caseTRENTON, N.J. — A U.S. congressman is pushing to suspend certain trade preferences with Brazil until a boy at the center of a custody dispute there is returned to his father in New Jersey.

June 3rd, 2009 NJ dad in Brazil: Not giving up on son's custodyNEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey father who headed to Brazil to take custody of his son says he's frustrated by a judge's decision but will never give up fighting for his child.

June 2nd, 2009 NJ man arrives in Brazil to reclaim custody of sonNEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey father has arrived in Brazil with the goal of bringing his son back to the United States.

May 14th, 2009 Brazil stocks up after falling in previous sessionSAO PAULO — Brazil stocks are edging higher after shares of the nation's big companies were battered during the previous session. Sao Paulo's Ibovespa index was up 0.3 percent to 48,812 during the first 30 minutes of trading.

May 12th, 2009 Brazil flood chaos eases, but 265K still homelessSAO PAULO, Brazil — The chaos from epic flooding in northern Brazil has eased, with the number of homeless dropping from more than 300,000 to 265,000. Officials say people have started heading back home in some of the 10 states affected by the floods — an affected area three times the size of Alaska.

May 8th, 2009 BRASILIA/BUENOS AIRES - Brazil and Argentina have joined the growing list of countries that have confirmed infections of swine flu within their borders. Brazil reported four cases as Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao declared: 'The virus has arrived in Brazil.' The four patients were doing well, he said Thursday.

March 30th, 2009 SYDNEY - Women below 21 are three times more likely to catch sexually transmitted diseases (STD) than men of the same age, according to a new study. The study, based on an examination of 1,000 people, shows that women have a greater incidence of STD diagnoses by age 21 than between ages 21 and 32, said co-author Charlotte Paul, a professor at Otago University's department of preventive and social medicine.

March 20th, 2009 LONDON - Cancer-stricken British reality television star Jade Goody's sons have made Mother's Day cards for her, despite fears that she may not live to see them. Dailymail.co.uk reports, a relative will take the cards to her as Goody does not want Bobby, 5, and Freddy, 4, to witness her death.

February 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Diarrhoea claims nearly two million people annually, the bulk of them being from poor countries in Africa and Asia. The disease accounts for 18 percent of all deaths among children - and yet is almost always preventable with proper treatment.

February 11th, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Michael Jackson is suffering from MRSA skin disease, which could eat his flesh. According to thesun.co.uk, Jackson has been receiving antibiotics through drip and the disease has apparently spread throughout his body.