BERLIN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Germans celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Berlin.
The U.S. economy turned a high-drama clicheé into reality last week with the gross domestic product rising with unemployment rising at the same time last week.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Washington's Metro subway system won't allow independent safety investigators access to live tracks, documents show.
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The father of one of the victims of District of Columbia snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo says he wants to watch Muhammad's execution this week.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- As the FBI's cyber sleuths comb through Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's hard drive, they will quickly conclude that this Virginia-born shrink of Jordanian-Palestinian descent inhabited an electronic global caliphate, the ummah, or universal community of Muslim believers, next to which the nation-state -- even one as powerful as the United States -- pales into insignificance.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The lack of progress in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority could plunge the region into an abyss, Jordan's King Abdullah II warned.
MIAMI, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A weakened Hurricane Ida slogged across the Gulf of Mexico Monday, as hurricane warnings were posted from Mississippi to Florida, weather officials said.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- American choreographer Mark Morris and his dance troupe plan a series of six performances at the Tel Aviv Opera House, officials said.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Palestinians demonstrated Monday urging President Mahmoud Abbas to remain in office days after he announced his intention to resign, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Anti-abortion groups, buoyed by action in the House, are ready to pressure U.S. senators to do the same when they take up healthcare reform, both sides said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington Monday to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on restarting the peace process.
TOKYO, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Japan's Transportation Ministry expects to have a package ready by this week to rescue troubled Japan Airlines, Minister Seiji Maehara said.
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NASHVILLE, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Indiana Supreme Court said it will rule on whether to review a Tennessee woman's allegation a casino had a duty to stop her from losing about $1 million.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- People identified as "heavy users" of flowers rated "emotion conditioning" as more important than "showing care to others," researchers in Taiwan found.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Militants struck Pakistan's Peshawar area again Monday when a suicide bomb attack at a police checkpoint killed at least three people, police said.