BERLIN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- World leaders gathered in Germany to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event 20 years ago that is seen as the symbolic end of the Cold War.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Czech Republic authorities say they're investigating evidence that elite troops deployed in Afghanistan had Nazi swastikas on their uniforms.
FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Investigators were looking into a possible tie between the accused Fort Hood, Texas, gunman and an imam authorities suspect backs al-Qaida, officials said.
BERLIN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Germans celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Berlin.
The U.S. economy turned a high-drama clicheé into reality last week with the gross domestic product rising with unemployment rising at the same time last week.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Washington's Metro subway system won't allow independent safety investigators access to live tracks, documents show.
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The father of one of the victims of District of Columbia snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo says he wants to watch Muhammad's execution this week.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- As the FBI's cyber sleuths comb through Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's hard drive, they will quickly conclude that this Virginia-born shrink of Jordanian-Palestinian descent inhabited an electronic global caliphate, the ummah, or universal community of Muslim believers, next to which the nation-state -- even one as powerful as the United States -- pales into insignificance.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The lack of progress in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority could plunge the region into an abyss, Jordan's King Abdullah II warned.
MIAMI, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A weakened Hurricane Ida slogged across the Gulf of Mexico Monday, as hurricane warnings were posted from Mississippi to Florida, weather officials said.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- American choreographer Mark Morris and his dance troupe plan a series of six performances at the Tel Aviv Opera House, officials said.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Palestinians demonstrated Monday urging President Mahmoud Abbas to remain in office days after he announced his intention to resign, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Anti-abortion groups, buoyed by action in the House, are ready to pressure U.S. senators to do the same when they take up healthcare reform, both sides said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington Monday to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on restarting the peace process.
TOKYO, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Japan's Transportation Ministry expects to have a package ready by this week to rescue troubled Japan Airlines, Minister Seiji Maehara said.
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