ZURICH, Switzerland, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Slovak Daniela Hantuchova and Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo were both first-round losers Monday at the $600,000 Zurich Open in Switzerland.
MADRID, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- American Mardy Fish and Spaniard Tommy Robredo were among Monday's unseeded winners at the $2.78 million Madrid Masters tennis event.
OTTAWA, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Health Canada is advising nursing mothers about a very rare, but serious health risk to breastfed babies if nursing mothers use codeine.
ACRE, Israel, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Israeli President Shimon Peres Monday urged Arabs and Jews to halt nearly a week of clashes in the northern city of Acre.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The National Weather Service warned late Monday that brisk Santa Ana winds would continue to whip a pair of wildfires raging in northern Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain's vote for the $700 billion U.S. financial market bailout hurt his credibility among conservatives, observers and conservative lawmakers say.
SEATTLE, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Sheriff's deputies allege a 14-year-old Carnation, Wash., girl was so mistreated and emaciated she weighed as much as an 8-year-old.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Attorneys for Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, Monday asked the judge to quash a U.S. Justice Department subpoena seeking e-mails from the senator's wife.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Chicago Bears guard Terrence Metcalf was suspended by the NFL Monday for four games without pay for violating the league's steroids policy.
OXFORD, Ohio, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Authorities at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, say they need help in finding two men who allegedly tried to kidnap four women as they each walked alone.
Iraq's Oil Ministry announced most of the details 35 of the world's largest oil companies were waiting for as the country begins to open the third-largest proven oil reserves in the world to foreign investors.
ZWOLLE, Netherlands, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Police in Zwolle, Netherlands, say a vegetarian was arrested after allegedly assaulting a spring roll vendor for only serving products made with meat.
GLASGOW, Scotland, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Scottish prosecutors allege e-mail messages link Bilal Abdulla to a conspiracy to bomb public transportation sites in London and Glasgow.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Morgan Stanley says it has closed a deal for Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ, the world's second largest bank, to acquire 21 percent of the U.S. financial firm.
REYKJAVIK, Ireland, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Two nationalized banks that helped push Iceland's economy to the edge of bankruptcy are to be taken over by two women, sources said.