Gambian president claims AIDS cure

The President of the Gambia, Col. Yahya Jammeh, who is a devout Muslim, claims to have discovered the cure for HIV and AIDS. There are 20,000 HIV/AIDS patients in this country of 1.5 million, and some of them say they have already been cured by the herbal mixture developed by Jammeh. The president says that his family have long been successful practitioners of traditional African medicine.

Meanwhile, a UN representative was expelled from the Gambia in February after saying that the medicine should be tested by foreign experts (CNN).

Christians protest same-sex unions in Mexico

Catholics and other Christian groups have protested in Mexico City against same-sex civil unions, which were recently legalised in the Mexican capital (BBC).