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ADELAIDE, Australia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Confessed Australian terrorism supporter David Hicks has been released from prison near his home town of Adelaide, South Australia.
TAUNTON, Mass., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man told police he was typing a text message when he lost control of his car, killing a teenage boy, a prosecutor said Friday.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- An Indianapolis grandmother was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday for failing to get medical help for her scalded adopted son.
ATLANTA, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- An Atlanta fitness trainer was in a coma Friday, two days after he was beaten while he escorted two daughters of Mayor Shirley Franklin.
BOSTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Massachusetts health officials say an outbreak of listeriosis that killed two elderly men has been traced to a small old-fashioned dairy.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will make the task of picking a successor to lead her political party quite difficult.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush plans to veto a defense authorization bill passed by Congress because it would freeze Iraqi assets while victims of Saddam Hussein sue.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan government said Friday its air force pounded Tamil Tiger locations in the north as the death toll from the rising violence soared.
KISSIMMEE, Fla., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A man who claimed to be working for U.S. Homeland Security told his girlfriend she was in witness protection and kept her under his eye in their Florida home.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The wall around the tiger exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo, where a man was killed by an escaped tiger, was 4 feet lower than national standards.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- An explosion Friday at an election rally in Pakistan's violence-hit Swat Valley killed nine people including a relative of a political leader, a report said.
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ROME, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A new curfew means New Year's revelers will have their party cut short this year in Rome unless a last-minute waiver is granted.
PARIS, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Miss France has been barred from competing in future beauty pageants as a punishment for appearing in a published series of suggestive photographs.
WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A pending European Union law to limit working hours of physicians is likely to further aggravate a lack of doctors practicing at hospitals in Poland.
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The South Korean National Assembly overcame opposition from liberal lawmakers Friday to extend the country's Iraq troop deployment by another year.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Pakistan said Benazir Bhutto was not hit by a bullet or shrapnel but died of a skull fracture after hitting her car's moon roof, CNN reported Friday.
CULVER CITY, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Dr. Mitsuo Inouye, a Culver City, Calif., physician who assisted U.S. survivors of the World War II atomic bomb blasts in Japan, died at at 82.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Violent protests in Pakistan sparked by the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have claimed several lives and caused much damage.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Hungarian companies conducting dubious business have had little, if any, success in taking part in European Union-funded projects to launder money.
BANGOR, Maine, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A restraining order filed against a man in Maine for allegedly threatening NAACP members highlights the emergence of racial issues in the majority white state.
PARIS, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The six French aid workers accused of kidnapping children from African refugee camps in Chad have arrived in France to serve their prison sentences.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. firms helping China with one of the world's most advanced public surveillance systems are violating the spirit of human-rights sanctions, critics say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Benazir Bhutto reportedly wrote a U.S. friend Oct. 26 Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would be partly to blame if she was killed, which occurred Thursday.
LONDON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A 34-year-old Welsh woman married her own foster son, seven years after taking in the boy from the war-torn Serbian province of Kosovo.
