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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A young New Jersey doctor who admitted severing a hand from a cadaver as a medical student, then giving it to a stripper, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months of probation.

TORONTO (CP) - A new study shows there were more than two million violent incidents against people age 15 and older in 2004. The Statistics Canada study looks at the physical, financial and psychological impact on victims of violent crimes in this country.

LONDON (AP) - The first affordable combination anti-malarial drug tailored for children will soon be available across Africa, potentially saving millions of lives, the nonprofit organization and the pharmaceuticals giant who worked to develop it said Thursday.

OTTAWA (CP) - A pair of New Democrat MPs played puppeteers on Thursday as they condemned a government regulation allowing the use of asbestos in toys as "crazy.

OTTAWA (CP) - A New Democrat MP says a government regulation allowing the use of asbestos in toys is "crazy." Pat Martin says the government should ban asbestos completely as a deadly carcinogen.

ATLANTA (AP) - Think bird flu will become a worldwide threat this summer? Wanna put some money on that? In an unusual effort to better predict the advance of a potential flu pandemic, public health experts will be staked about $100 apiece to bet on the spread of bird flu.

PARIS (AP) - Less fat, less sugar, less salt: Even the French are cracking down. With processed snacks and fast food encroaching on France's tables and culinary traditions, the government fears the country's youth face a growing risk of obesity.

TORONTO (CP) - Cases of diabetes have risen so dramatically in Ontario - and likely the rest of Canada - that the proportion of adults with the disease has already surpassed the World Health Organization's predicted global rate for a quarter-century from now, researchers say.

American businesses’ awareness of potential labor shortages due to baby boomers retiring with fewer younger workers following close behind – and what their organizations are doing to prepare – are examined in these November-December 2006 AARP surveys of 400 employers in each of several states.

A succinct summary of the AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper of the same name in which a team of researchers headed by Joshua M. Wiener of RTI International examines the long-term care quality assurance systems in four developed countries—England, Australia, Germany and Japan. (2 pages)