LONDON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Heavy snows produced travel chaos in Britain Friday, cutting power, forcing flight cancellations and stranding motorists, officials said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices bounced back Friday morning on the New York Mercantile Exchange gaining 2 percent to just over $74 per barrel.
GLASGOW, Scotland, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Scottish health agencies say they have issued an alert after a Glasgow hospital patient who died tested positive for deadly anthrax.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A new book quotes one-time White House intern Monica Lewinsky as saying former U.S. President Bill Clinton lied about their relationship under oath.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, have produced a draft accord calling for a 2-degree cap on global warming and aid to poor countries, diplomats say.
MUMBAI, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The lone surviving gunman accused in India's Mumbai attacks last November told a special court in the city Friday his earlier confession had been under duress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- West Virginia politicians and coal industry leaders say they're surprised and puzzled by remarks on coal mining from Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A House subcommittee has agreed to investigate a U.S. Treasury Department rule change that will give Citigroup a $38 billion tax break.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Friday urged world leaders meeting in Denmark to accept a less-than-perfect agreement on climate change.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An explosion near a mosque Friday killed four people in northwest Pakistan, authorities said.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and more than 100 other world leaders started last-minute attempts to reach a global climate protection deal at a U.N. conference in Denmark.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- More than 100 million U.S. doses of the swine flu vaccine were available Friday as 24 states lifted restrictions on who could get the vaccine, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The United States will end 2009 with the fewest executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the procedure in 1976, anti-death penalty activists say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate early Friday voted to end debate on the $636 billion defense bill, setting up a final vote for Saturday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Rescuers said Friday they have recovered four bodies and saved 38 people from a Uruguayan ship that sank off the coast of Lebanon.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Posturing among industrialized and less-developed countries continued stalling any agreement on the final day of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Denmark.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Raw data feeds from U.S. military drones used in hostile regions of Iraq, and possibly those deployed in Afghanistan, have been hacked by militants.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Russia Foreign Ministry said Friday an agreement could soon be reached on a treaty related to nuclear weapons held by the United States and Russia.
SOUDAN, Minn., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists said their experiments in a abandoned iron mine in Minnesota may have uncovered evidence of "dark matter."