There’s a new President in Beijing, South Africa faces a shocking health crisis, and a controversial leader is no longer likely to become a museum piece. 

There wasn’t a puff of white smoke over Tiananmen Square, but China completed its transfer of power to a new generation.  Xi Jinping is the new president.  Although he did not address the National Peoples Congress, Xi in the past has spoken out on the need to stamp out corruption at all levels, warning of civil unrest if party privilege is not tackled.

South Africa’s Health Minister says at least 28 percent of the country’s schoolgirls are HIV positive.  But the infection rate is only 4 percent among boys. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is blaming “sugar daddies” who exploit the girls.  He’s also sounding the alarm about the teen pregnancy rate.

Venezuelan acting President Nic Maduro now says it’s unlikely that the late Hugo Chavez would be embalmed for permanent display like Lenin, Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong.  The process needed to have started much sooner after Chavez’ death on 5 March.

One of the co-founders of Cambodia’s homicidal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s has solved the problem of his international tribunal on crimes against humanity.  Ieng Sary died in the middle of the trial.  The Khmer Rouge killed 1.7 million people through starvation, disease, overwork and execution.

A newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is indeed a Higgs Boson, according to scientists.  The sub-atomic particle allows all other particles to cling together and become atoms which link up and become molecules, creating all that w know is real.  No Higgs Boson, no existence.