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WACO — A man has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for stealing a cell phone.Glenn Alvin Reed, 31, was convicted of robbery Thursday for stealing a cellular phone from a man's truck last fall and then hitting him several times when he demanded its return.Jurors, who deliberated about 15 minutes, convicted Reed as a habitual criminal because he has prior felony convictions for injury to an elderly person and robbery. That bumped the minimum sentence from five to 25 years for Reed, who rejected a 15-year plea bargain offer from prosecutors.Reed also has 15 misdemeanor convictions dating to...

    BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Former US president Bill Clinton arrived in Beijing Wednesday night after his tour of Asia's tsunami-hit regions and signed a cooperation agreement on AIDS treatment with China's Health Ministry.     The former president, who has been very involved with HIV/AIDS prevention and control since his presidency, promised to donate AIDS medicine for Chinese children living with the deadly disease.     "What impressed me most is how quickly and how much you've done in preventing HIV/AIDS," Clinton told China's executive vice health minister Gao Qiang after the signing ceremony.     The Chinese government estimates that the country has 840,000...

A float featuring a caricature of US President George Bush makes its way through the crowd during a carnival parade in Duesseldorf (AFP/DDP/Volker Hartmann)

THE Catholic church in Australia will not join a rebellion against Rome to allow condom use in the fight against AIDS, senior clergy have said. The Spanish church this week publicly spoke out against the Vatican's opposition to all artificial contraception, saying condoms had a place in the fight against AIDS. The secretary-general of the Spanish bishops' conference later backtracked, saying the Spanish church still believed artificial contraception to be immoral. But the heads of the Catholic church in England and Belgium have also recently suggested that condoms could be morally obligatory in some circumstances. Self-described Catholic AIDS agency the...

Bush Rejects Bin Laden Tape, Hits Kerry Fri Oct 29, 2004 08:28 PM ET By Steve Holland COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - President Bush vowed on Friday the United States will not be intimidated by a pre-election warning from Osama Bin Laden and called Democrat John Kerry "shameful" for accusing him of bungling the search for the al Qaeda leader. The bin Laden tape eerily offered a flashback to the Sept. 11 events that changed Bush's presidency on a day he was recalling the emotions of the moment. It also served to remind Americans that the man Bush once wanted "dead...