The number of people worldwide infected with the AIDS virus has remained flat for two years at 33 million, and the worldwide epidemic likely reached its apex in 1996, United Nations experts say. There are now 4 million people being treated with AIDS drugs around the globe, up 10 times from five years ago.

After months of debating the right way forward in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama appears to have decided on deploying from 32,000 to 35,000 U.S. troops, according to military officials. The decision, expected to be announced soon, came after a "rigorous" meeting with his war council. The Point: Democrats Eye War Tax

Safety regulators recall 2.1 million dropside cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing in the U.S. and Canada. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says four young children have suffocated in the cribs, which have a side that moves up and down to allow parents to lift children more easily. Nearly 150,000 of the cribs in the recall carry the Fisher-Price logo.

If anyone needed more proof of the first lady's popularity, a comic book detailing Michelle Obama's life has become a top seller for the publisher, Bluewater Productions. "Female Force: Michelle Obama" is part of a series of comics on the lives of prominent American women, including Barbara Walters and Sarah Palin.

The remains of a United Nations worker who disappeared in Lebanon in 1985 have been found in the eastern part of the country, the organization says. Alec Collett, 63, was the first U.N. worker kidnapped in Lebanon.

China executes two people -- a dairy farmer and a milk salesman -- for their roles in a deadly scheme to water down infant formula with an industrial chemical called melamine. The contamination killed six children and sickened more than 300,000.

A Belgian man crashed his car in 1983 and doctors said he was in a vegetative state. But Ron Houben says he was conscious all the while -- but unable to speak or even cry out. Doubtful of the doctors' diagnosis, his mother found a physician who put her son through a PET scan that indicated he could touch and feel.