BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Rescuers said Friday they have recovered four bodies and saved 38 people from a Uruguayan ship that sank off the coast of Lebanon.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Posturing among industrialized and less-developed countries continued stalling any agreement on the final day of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Denmark.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Raw data feeds from U.S. military drones used in hostile regions of Iraq, and possibly those deployed in Afghanistan, have been hacked by militants.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Russia Foreign Ministry said Friday an agreement could soon be reached on a treaty related to nuclear weapons held by the United States and Russia.
SOUDAN, Minn., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists said their experiments in a abandoned iron mine in Minnesota may have uncovered evidence of "dark matter."
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. government plans to repatriate six Yemenis held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison, officials said.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma judge was set to hear argument Friday to block a state law that would post information about women getting abortions in the state, attorneys say.
A lackluster Wednesday turned painful Thursday in U.S. markets despite a Federal Reserve announcement and data that were both in line with expectations.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The popular Internet site Twitter was hacked in the overnight hours, but company officials said the issue was resolved.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the final day of the climate change summit, meeting with other heads of state trying to broker a deal.
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook was arrested Friday in an alleged corruption case, which she has denied.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia in its first such actions against former Khmer Rouge leaders charged Ieng Sary and Nuon Chea with genocide.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. military and chemical companies failed to warn of the danger of Agent Orange, the chemical used as a defoliant in Vietnam, the Chicago Tribune reports.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Female facial beauty may be a matter of cognitive averaging, U.S. and Canadian researchers say.
RACINE, Wis., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The former mayor of Racine, Wis., has agreed to plead guilty to sex charges, court documents say.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Transmission of H1N1 among passengers during a trans-Atlantic airline flight could be fairly high, U.S. researchers said.