ELMHURST, Ill., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Police say a Muslim student at Elmhurst College, in Illinois, was attacked in a restroom after finding anti-Islamic slurs scrawled in her locker.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush said Saturday the United States and other nations are working together to resolve the financial crisis affecting global markets.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. passenger rail system Amtrak says it has recorded an all-time ridership record thanks in part to crowded highways, airport hassles and high gas prices.
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Reclusive North Korea leader Kim Jong Il has made an appearance to inspect frontline army units, the country's state-run media said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Nine Taliban and al-Qaida militants were killed in Afghanistan in two separate operations by U.S.-led coalition forces, officials said Saturday.
TROY, N.Y., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Rensselaer County, N.Y., officials insist the misspelling of Barack Obama's name as "Barack Osama" on absentee presidential ballots was an innocent mistake.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The son of the late U.S. conservative icon William F. Buckley says he's voting for Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama.
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Attorneys for O.J. Simpson say he should get a new trial on robbery charges because Las Vegas prosecutors dismissed blacks from the jury pool.
BEIJING, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Chinese Communist officials are considering allowing peasants to buy and sell land rights for the first time since the country's 1949 revolution, analysts say.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Renegotiation may be in the works for a proposed $9 billion investment into struggling Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley by a Japanese bank, sources say.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. and six other nations say they have failed to agree upon a coordinated strategy of having governments partially nationalize struggling banks.
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has allocated leadership of key ministries to members of his ruling party despite ongoing power-sharing talks, opponents say.