NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices rose to nearly $80 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, despite the dissipating strength of a gulf storm.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've developed tools that allow them to visualize how different populations of cells communicate with each other.
Economists may hope stock markets rise slowly, but investors have breached the storm walls in recent days, putting U.S. markets into turbo drive recently.
OTTAWA, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Canada's minority Conservative government won two more parliamentary seats in by-elections held to fill vacancies.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- 'Sesame Street,' the daytime staple of public television that taught the alphabet, counting and lessons about getting along, opened its 40th season Tuesday.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have been able to grow new penile tissue in labs and implant it into rabbits to restore their sexual function.
TEHRAN, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Three U.S. hikers who said they became lost and inadvertently crossed from Iraq into Iran, have been charged with espionage.
OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Japanese police in Osaka say they have arrested the man wanted in the 2007 slaying of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker.
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Ships from the North and South Korean navies exchanged gunfire Tuesday off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula.
FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Investigators are looking again at a series of messages the alleged Fort Hood, Texas, shooter sent to a radical Muslim cleric.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Israel President Shimon Peres has embarked on a state visit to Brazil and Argentina, accompanied by an entourage of Israeli businessmen, his office said.
LONDON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Britain will build 10 new nuclear power plants to supply up to 25 percent of the nation's electricity needs, the government's energy minister says.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- At least 20 people were killed Tuesday when a suspected suicide car bomber detonated his explosives in heavy traffic near Peshawar, Pakistan, officials said.
MIAMI, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A study suggests California's San Jacinto fault, with about four mini-earthquakes daily, is less likely to produce a major quake than the San Andreas fault.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Former college and professional basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says he has a form of blood cancer.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The ex-wife of D.C. Sniper John Muhammad says she has moved on from feeling guilty about her former husband's shooting spree in which 10 people died.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Renewing alliances and forging new partnerships are key goals for U.S. President Barack Obama when he makes his first trip to Asia, a senior official said.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Israeli and Jordanian military forces concluded a joint one-day exercise simulating an earthquake and drilling rescue and emergency procedures, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The man called the D.C. Sniper, who created fear in Washington for weeks in 2002, will be executed Tuesday unless the Virginia governor steps in, officials say.