NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. markets put on the brakes Tuesday after the Commerce Department lowered its third-quarter gross domestic product estimate.
MUSKO, Sweden, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Swedish authorities said the agency responsible for military maintenance could face charges related to 28 tons of dead fish found in a dock.
AALBORG, Denmark, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Danish animal welfare group criticized the suspended jail sentences given to six men who tortured and killed a guinea pig.
BANGKOK, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The former prime minister of Thailand, Samak Sundarevej, died at age 74 in Bangkok after a long battle with cancer, officials said.
WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created a model system to screen possible drug targets for conditions such as thrush, athlete's foot and vaginal yeast infections.
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- NASA says its QuikScat satellite has suffered a malfunction and now scientists are assessing options for future operations of the 10-year-old mission.
PARIS, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pressing to re-inter the remains of Albert Camus, one of France's greatest 20th-century writers, in the Pantheon in Paris.
ROME, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- An Italian official is asking the country's workers to shorten or eliminate lunch breaks that bring "the country to a standstill."
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of Fashion Options boy's warm-up sets due to a strangulation hazard.
MIAMI, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Miami-area minister and his wife were convicted for their participation in a $7 million scheme involving money laundering and mortgage fraud.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- California housing permits are headed for a record low with permits for 36,000 housing units forecast for the year, a state building group said.
HOUSTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- NASA says it will televise the events surrounding the landing of three International Space Station crew members who will return to Earth next month.
CARDIFF, Wales, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Some advocacy groups are scolding Holiday Inn for a British promotion offering discounts to help "offload" mothers-in-law during the holidays.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania State University researchers say they've discovered Internet search engine use is becoming part of the learning process.
LATTA, Okla., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Virginia man with leukemia said he may be able to arrange to have his jailed brother transferred to Maryland for a bone-marrow transplant.
MIDDLETOWN, Pa., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Conditions have returned to normal at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant after a weekend radiation incident, utility officials say.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The already strong U.S.-India ties will be strengthened by commitments made Tuesday between the countries' leaders, U.S. President Barack Obama said.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. census worker found dead in Kentucky tried to fake a homicide while actually taking his own life, investigators said Tuesday.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A bantamweight boxer from Chicago died of injuries sustained during his first professional championship fight.
SHIPPINGPORT, Pa., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Nuclear reactor coolant leaked into a pressurized relief tank at a Pennsylvania power plant early Tuesday in an "unusual event," officials said.