NEW YORK - HUNDREDS of people lined up at some Verizon Wireless stores on Friday to buy the BlackBerry Storm, the first touch-screen phone from Research In Motion that aims to compete with Apple's iPhone.

WASHINGTON - TWO years after the government urged that HIV tests become as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the Aids virus does not know it, scientists said on Thursday.

LONDON - CHILDREN pushed in prams which face away from their parents may suffer long-term emotional and language problems, according to a study published on Friday.

The research, believed to be the first of its kind, found that children who were not facing the person that pushed them were less likely to talk, laugh and interact with their parents compared with those babies that did.