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PAISLEY, Scotland, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A Scottish researcher says trained sexologists can infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks.
TOKYO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The Japanese foreign ministry said Friday North Korea will suspend its reinvestigation of abducted Japanese nationals until Tokyo has a new prime minister.
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Oregon say they will not seek criminal charges against a convicted rapist who allegedly threatened one of his victims.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Two Kentucky lawyers who allegedly defrauded clients in a settlement over the diet drug phen-fen face new federal charges of wire fraud.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Officials at a Christian college in San Diego say they are investigating a case of alleged hazing in which freshmen were forced to swim naked in the Pacific.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A judge in Los Angeles was asked to dismiss charges against a woman who allegedly harassed a girl through an online imposture until the girl committed suicide.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, Switzerland, noting the current economic climate, has issued a gloomy global economic outlook.
MIAMI, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Emergency agencies from South Carolina to the Maritime Provinces of Canada were braced for Tropical Storm Hanna early Friday as it raced northwest.
MANHATTAN, Kan., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A Kansas State University researcher suggests that nicotine's power, or addictive quality, may be in how it enhances other experiences.
BOSTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Investigators marked James "Whitey" Bulger's 79th birthday by releasing age-enhanced photos and doubling a reward for information on the Boston crime boss.
MIAMI, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. forecasters called Hurricane Ike "extremely dangerous" as it tracked toward the Southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.
BEIJING, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- An official investigation in China has shown some of the schools that collapsed in the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan province may have been poorly constructed.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Eating good-quality protein in the morning increased feelings of fullness throughout the day and may help people lose weight, U.S. researchers said.
MIAMI, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Josephine was maintaining its strength over the central Atlantic Ocean, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The alleged head of a Milwaukee criminal gang nicknamed "The Body Snatchers" has been sentenced to two life terms for killing two drug dealers.
NASHVILLE, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Chris Nickson accounted for two third-quarter touchdowns Thursday and rallied Vanderbilt to its second win in as many years over No. 24 South Carolina 24-17.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Following are remarks delivered Thursday by presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.