BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The use of lubricants during sex alone or with a partner contributed to higher ratings of pleasurable and satisfying sex in women, U.S. researchers found.
MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Philippine authorities said Monday they found the severed head of a school principal, who was kidnapped three weeks ago by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court, has canceled plans to attend a conference in Turkey, local reports indicate.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Transport Workers Union leaders in Philadelphia said the six-day transit strike was over, although officials said normal commuting Monday would be unlikely.
BEIJING, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Nine people were executed Monday after being convicted of crimes during riots last summer in the western China.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $1.2 trillion healthcare reform package, shifting attention for further legislative action to the U.S. Senate.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Two U.S. Army pilots were killed during a hard helicopter landing in Iraq's Salah ad Din province, military officials said Monday.
MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Losses by Top 10 teams last week shook up the USA Today Coaches' football poll but not at the very top where Florida, Texas and Alabama remain.
MIAMI, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Hurricane Ida, a late-season storm that raked Central America, headed into the Gulf of Mexico and toward the U.S. mainland.
BERLIN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- World leaders gathered in Germany to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event 20 years ago that is seen as the symbolic end of the Cold War.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Czech Republic authorities say they're investigating evidence that elite troops deployed in Afghanistan had Nazi swastikas on their uniforms.
FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Investigators were looking into a possible tie between the accused Fort Hood, Texas, gunman and an imam authorities suspect backs al-Qaida, officials said.
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 cliche 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.