PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Philadelphia-area Sovereign Bancorp Inc. is suing its largest shareholder for plans to field its own candidates as board members.
SEATTLE, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Chicago-based Boeing Co. has won firm orders for 895 commercial jets this year, breaking its previous record of 879, set in 1989.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Is the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator dead? Congress has killed it. But it may come back to life in one form or another yet.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- By almost any measure, 2005 was a grim year for the European Union. The bloc's first constitution was roundly rejected by French and Dutch voters in May and Jun
ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Swiss researchers say a didgeridoo, a wind instrument traditionally made from the trunk of a tree hollowed out by termites, may help those who snore.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Israel intends to create a cordon sanitaire in the northern Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian militants from firing rockets and mortar bombs into its territory.
FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Susanne Osthoff, the German woman freed after being kidnapped in Iraq, had been kept just a few miles from the German embassy in Baghdad.
BERLIN, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Detlev Mehlis, the U.N. investigator into the slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, said he quit because of security measures and the distance
BERLIN, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Germany will become the biggest net contributor to the European Union, having to pay $2.4 billion a year more from 2007 to 2013, the government said.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- In an unprecedented decision, India's Parliament Friday expelled 10 lawmakers who were captured in a sting operation accepting cash to ask questions. Both House
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. software maker Microsoft Corp. sold a controlling stake in 24-hour cable news channel MSNBC to NBC Universal, Variety.com reported Friday.
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LONDON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The Irish Republican Army is "in turmoil" over suggestions the recent exposure of a Sinn Fein member as a British agent might have been an attempt to protect a
KEHL AM RHEIN, Germany, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- German lawmakers called on Deutsche Bank head Josef Ackermann to stand down after a federal court ordered his retrial for granting executives compensation worth
LONDON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- AstraZeneca PLC, Europe's third-largest drug maker, will pay $210 million to buy Britain's KuDOS Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a cancer medicine company.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- One year after a devastating tsunami stuck Southeast Asian coastal areas, the major obstacles to recovery remain water sanitation and the need for jobs.
Musician Taylor Swift holds her award that she won for Woman of the Year at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 20, 2012. UPI/Jim Ruymen
