NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A young black artist who combines Renaissance art references with the garishness of hip-hop culture is getting his first solo museum exhibition at the Brooklyn
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Instability in Iraq, elections in Afghanistan, a dormant peace process in the Middle East, tense ties with Europe, attempts to stop Iran and North Korea from ac
NEW DELHI, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- In 1999, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer thought India was plagued by high levels of piracy and was not the best place to hire new staff.
AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Jordan hopes it will not have to struggle for survival in the year ahead with Iraqi and Palestinian elections bringing forward new leadership that could restore peace in the region.
MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Ukraine ends the year a changed country. The election of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko as president, after three intensely fought ballots sets Ukraine
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The triple handshake among U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the While House in 1993 sug
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The horrendous tsunami catastrophe in South Asia has led to a rallying of human solidarity and compassion at its very best this week. But after the dead are bur
NEW DELHI, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The death toll from the killer tsunamis shot up Friday to 135,000 killed and rendering as many as 5 million homeless as entire new villages are found devastated
MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- In many ways 2004 has marked Vladimir Putin's first real year in power in Russia. For him and his nation, this year has been fraught with tragedy, change and co
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" was seen by many believers as the most important religious event of 2004. On that, Catholics, evangelical Christians, and even some moderate Muslims will agree.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka's flag flew half mast Friday as the nation mourned some 30,000 victims of the tsunami that hit the eastern and southern coasts of the island nation, w
GAZA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Nov. 11, 2004 is a date that will remain forever etched in the memory of many Palestinians. It is the day Yasser Arafat, the man who for decades symbolized the
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- For North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 2005 could be a decisive year in determining the fate of his isolated regime, which has been in a prolonged standoff with the United States over his nuclear ambitions.
AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Jordan survived another year amid the deteriorating conditions in Iraq and the continued Palestinian-Israeli bloodshed across its western border by containing the growing popular anger at the U.S. and Israeli occupations.
TRIPOLI, Libya, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Libya, accused for decades of being a rogue state, broke out of its international isolation in 2004 after giving up its program for developing weapons of mass d
BRICK, N.J., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- It feels as though I am in a nightmare that never ends. The nightmare is about Vietnam, but it's also about Iraq and Afghanistan. I seem to be in a time warp, a
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- While certainly not a recent development, it seems the practice of intentionally, not to mention grossly, misrepresenting one's position -- or an opponent's pos
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Ever wish you could just fire your current health plan and hire a better one? If you worked for Uncle Sam, you could have.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Consider this odd fact: If you use the Google search engine to look for the phrase "right wing" you come up with 2,490,000 entries. If you google "left wing," y
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The United States' decision this week to allow limited resumption of cattle imports from Canada could have a greater potential payoff if it convinces Asian nati
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- There is a dark familiarity for Americans in studying the tragic twists of fate that led to Sunday's horrific tsunami-wave disaster in southern Asia. The heartb
NEW DELHI, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A calm and serene Indian Ocean is now sending its dead back to the shores of 11 nations hit by the killer tsunamis caused by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake off an I
CAMP BAR-LEV, Israel, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- An Israeli captain allegedly stood over the sprawled body of an unarmed Palestinian teenage girl, fired two shots and seconds later returned and emptied his M-1
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
