CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The six astronauts who will be aboard space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-129 mission began their pre-launch activities at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday.
CAPE MAY, N.J., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Coast Guard crews Thursday searched a rough Atlantic Ocean off Cape May, N.J., for three people after their fishing boat sank, authorities said.
LONDON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The Council of Mortgage Lenders said the fear of foreclosure in Britain had eased, predicting repossessions more than 35 percent lower than estimated earlier.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia has eased reprisals against al-Houthi rebels positioned along its mountainous southern border, a Saudi government source said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The Taliban has stepped up use of visual arts on the Internet and television in a campaign to win the Afghan propaganda war, officials say.
NASHVILLE, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Taylor Swift, at 19 years of age, has become the youngest person selected the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year.
ATLANTA, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Lou Dobbs, a mainstay at CNN almost continually since the news network was launched in 1980, abruptly quit his prime-time program.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices fell Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange to under $79 per barrel, despite the dollar's trend towards weakness.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has asked for a reworking of the series of plans he's considering regarding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan.
BOULDER CITY, Colo., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The parents of the "balloon boy" will plead guilty to creating a hoax that their son flew off in a helium balloon from their Colorado home, an attorney said.
TOKYO, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama heads off on a weeklong trip to several Asian countries looking for financial and diplomatic support.
PARIS, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a message to Syria that Israel would discuss a Golan Heights pullout to advance peace, Arab media reported.
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OSLO, Norway, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A former Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations expressed shock that a U.S. consultant to the Kurds may earn more than $100 million from an Iraqi oil deal.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Tiger Woods, making his first golf appearance in Australia in 11 years, shot 6-under-par 66 Thursday and shares the first-round lead at the JBWere Masters.
HONG KONG, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Udorn Duangdecha, despite two bogeys, fired an 8-under-par 62 Thursday and has the lead after one round at the European PGA Tour's Hong Kong Open.
MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visiting in Manila, Philippines, Thursday, said the Philippines-U.S. Visiting Forces Agreement aids both countries.
TOKYO, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Japanese authorities say they have officially dropped charges against a U.S. father for forcibly regaining custody of his two small children.
LEXINGTON, Mo., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Officials are searching for at least one body in the case of five men arrested for committing sex crimes against children, Lexington, Mo., police said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama emerged as the world's most powerful man in Forbes magazine's assessment of the world's most powerful people released Thursday.