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The United Nations has appointed a German diplomat, Joachim Ruecker, as its next head of mission in Kosovo. Mr Ruecker, current head of economic reconstruction in the province, will be the sixth UN special representative.

They estimate that currently there are 30 cases in which encrypted evidence had stumped investigators. [...] Mr Bowden said there were many scenarios that made it possible for a suspect to deny they ever had the key that unlocked encrypted data.

Germany has seen another decline in its birth rate, which is Europe's lowest. Official figures show that the number of births fell by a further 2.8% last year. Meanwhile, the mortality rate rose by 1.5% compared with 2004.

Mice kept in the deep freeze for 15 years have fathered healthy offspring, say scientists in Japan and Hawaii. One in five female mice undergoing IVF with sperm extracted from the dead mice had healthy, fertile pups.

Lemons and garlic are displayed next to condoms and anti-retroviral drugs on the South African stand at Toronto's international Aids conference. Apples, nectarines and other tastier fruit were apparently included earlier, but were soon eaten, an official said. South Africa's health minister has long promoted a diet including garlic and lemon as a way of treating Aids.

More than 60 international experts on HIV/Aids have called for the resignation of the South African health minister because of her stance on Aids. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang tells those with HIV to eat garlic and beetroot.

There are now more overweight people across the world than hungry ones, according to experts. US professor Barry Popkin said all countries - both rich and poor - had failed to address the obesity boom.

The world's largest manufacturer of personal computers, Dell, is to recall 4.1 million of its notebook computer batteries because of a fire risk. Most batteries are in computers sold in the United States but more than 1m are believed to be outside the US.