AIG Executives

AIG execs got bonuses and left, official says
Top Democratic lawmakers called today for high taxes on AIG bonuses, as New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo confirmed in a letter to Congress that the company paid 73 employees bonuses of more than $1 million each. Cuomo also wrote that 11 of the employees no longer work for the company, which has been under fire for giving bonuses after getting a $170 billion government bailout.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Condoms are not the answer to Africa's fight against HIV, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday as he began a weeklong trip to the continent. It was the pope's first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients.