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BERLIN, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The European Union has handed automakers more time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a decision that infuriates climate-protection activists.
MOSCOW, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Managers of upscale restaurants in Russia say they have begun adapting their menus to healthier and creative dishes in response to the economic crisis.
NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A vendor spokesman in Naples, Italy, says police shut down a shopping area offering nativity figurines, including one of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. job opportunities listed online in November fell to a level 22 percent below listings online a year ago, a private research group said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says one of its veteran astronauts, Carl Walz, is resigning to take an unspecified job in the private sector.
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- German energy giant RWE is looking into developing coal and water power projects in a Serbian province inside Bosnia-Herzegovina.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A breast cancer chemotherapy drug shows benefits to one type of breast cancer but not for another type, U.S. researchers said.
MUTARE , Zimbabwe, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Among the many ills plaguing Zimbabwe, the one many consider Africa's nastiest ailment, diamond fever, has a firm, fearsome hold, officials say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Plans for energy-efficient cars, fewer showrooms and shared sacrifice were aired Thursday by the three U.S. automakers seeking emergency funding from Congress.
GOLD COAST, Australia, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A man in the Australian town of Lismore says a snake more than 3 feet was living inside a computer printer and caused the device to malfunction.
JAMESTOWN, Saint Helena, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Jonathan, a 176-year-old tortoise living on the British territory of St. Helena, routinely mates with three young female tortoises, officials say.
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. aerospace industry has begun a campaign to convince the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama that support of its programs will help bolster the ailing economy.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The average sodium content of 528 U.S. packaged and restaurant foods increased by less than 1 percent from 2005 to 2008, non-profit officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the government should increase its efforts to stem the sharp rate of U.S. foreclosures.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Applying operational art in Fourth Generation war is so difficult, it is hard to point to many successful examples of it. The recent assaults in Mumbai are among the few and also among the best, bordering on brilliant. We may regret brilliance on the part of our opponents, but that should not prevent us from acknowledging it.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A woman in Eau Claire, Wis., says she was pleasantly surprised to hear that two maids at a local hotel had found the heirloom jewelry she feared lost forever.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Cleveland quarterback Brady Quinn says surgery on his right index figure was successful and he hopes to be throwing again in about six weeks.