FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A high-powered Florida attorney used ill-gotten gains to buy luxury sports cars, an 87-foot yacht and a $6.45 million home, U.S. prosecutors say.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's new term in office hasn't begun on a happy note as new pressures and problems, both from at home and abroad, pile on his already weakened government while his deadly nemesis, the Taliban, shows no signs of relenting on its bloodletting.

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Three Florida teenagers accused of setting fire to a 15-year-old boy have been charged as adults with attempted murder, authorities said.

PINE PLAINS, N.Y., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A gunman reportedly was in custody Tuesday after allegedly holding a principal hostage at Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains, N.Y., witnesses said.

LAC LA BICHE, Alberta, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are appealing for help in a year-old investigation into the discovery of a man's burned body in a remote area in Alberta.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama and his senior advisers will consider five strategies for Afghanistan and Pakistan at their next meeting, administration officials said.

MIAMI, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Ida was downgraded to tropical depression status Tuesday morning as it saturated the U.S. Gulf coastal states with rain, forecasters said.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Two elite Czech soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been fired for wearing Nazi insignia on their helmets, Defense Minister Martin Bartak announced Tuesday.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The president of Iraq's Kurdistan region says the European Union should assist it in setting up its health, judicial and educational systems.

PARIS, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The French foreign minister Tuesday dismissed a military option to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis, saying resorting to force would be catastrophic.

FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The man accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, warned U.S. Army physicians 18 months ago against deploying Muslim soldiers to fight other Muslims.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Nearly 200 key policy jobs in Barack Obama's administration remain vacant a year after he was elected president.

IRBIL, Iraq, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Yazidi and Shabak minorities under attack in Iraq's Nineveh province are not receiving government protection, human rights advocates say.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad ratcheted up the rhetoric against Israel, calling for action against the Jewish state if it fails to return the Golan Heights.

TRENTON, Ontario, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A Canadian teenager was recovering Tuesday, a day after military rescuers in aircraft plucked him from a free-floating ice floe in Hudson Bay.