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LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Seventy years after he arrived in Britain as a refugee, Erich Reich has been awarded a knighthood for his charitable work, officials announced Thursday.
HEMET, Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Police officers and other members of a gang task force in Southern California found their building had been rigged to explode Thursday, authorities said.
HOUSTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The young Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane showed no signs of radical views at an Islamic seminar in Texas, a leader says.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- About 80,000 people endured freezing temperatures to welcome the New Year at Edinburgh's celebration of Hogmanay, as New Year is called in Scotland.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A California judge has ruled the state improperly furloughed tens of thousands of state workers and ordered the practice halted.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- President Obama's choice to run the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said he gave a Senate committee misleading data but it was "inadvertent."
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Chub, a small fish found only in the Great Lakes, has become a rare find in stores in the U.S. Midwest thanks to zebra mussels and other invasive species.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The father of the suspect in the failed airline bombing attempt feared his son had been planning in Yemen to undertake a suicide mission, ABC News reported.
HONOLULU, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday he received a preliminary assessment of the reviews he ordered following a failed terror attack on Christmas Day.
KANEOHE, Hawaii, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and his family spent part of the morning of New Year's Eve taking in a private viewing of the movie "Avatar," the White House said.
HUGH TOWN, England, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Four fishermen were plucked to safety Thursday after their trawler caught fire off Britain's Isles of Scilly, officials said.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Sunset Strip in Hollywood is getting repaved for the first time in 75 years to restore some of the fading boulevard's former grandeur, officials say.
CONCORD, Mass., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A teacher at a New Hampshire middle school has been charged with robbing two banks in Massachusetts.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Venerable Irish Catholic Cardinal Cahal Daly died Thursday in Belfast, officials said. He was 92.
HAVANA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama's honeymoon period with the Cuban government appears to be over, with Cuban leaders denouncing him as another U.S. imperialist.
BEIIJNG, China, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- President Hu Jintao summed up 2009 Thursday as a year in which China continued its economic growth in spite of the global financial crisis.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Intelligence lapses before the U.S. airline bombing attempt recall those preceding the 2001 terror attacks, says the former Sept. 11 commission chairman.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Authorities say they think hundreds of animal remains discovered at a Philadelphia residence this week may be linked to religious rituals of some sort.
DALLAS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A Dallas-area couple was robbed by a burglar who tiptoed from room to room as they and six of their grandchildren slept.
SANAA, Yemen, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The suspect in the failed airline terror attempt enrolled in a Yemeni school last summer so he could legally re-enter that country, the school's director says.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- New U.S. State Department rules require information on visa status to be included in reports on those suspected of terrorist ties, CNN reported Thursday.
YASUF, West Bank, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A teenager related to Israeli radical politician Meir Kahane was released hours after his arrest Thursday on suspicion of a mosque arson, his lawyer said..
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Yemeni investigators say they're looking into a link between the man accused in the failed Christmas Day airliner terror attack and a radical Muslim cleric.
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The lawyer for former Argentine Catholic Archbishop Edgardo Storni says he is appealing his client's conviction for sexually abusing a seminarian.
