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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.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Democratic leaders may reconvene the U.S. Congress soon after the election to work on an economic stimulus package.

BELGRADE, Serbia, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The Serbian government expelled ambassadors from Montenegro and Macedonia after the two countries recognized Kosovo.

LONDON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Britain has the largest DNA database in the world relative to the size of its population, with more than 4 million people included.

NORWICH, England, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Investigators say a 73-year-old pedophile found strangled in a rural area in eastern England may have been killed by a vigilante.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Officials from the British Treasury and their Icelandic counterparts began talks Friday on rescuing some of the money from Britain invested in banks in Iceland.

CONCORD, N.C., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Kyle Busch had the best car throughout the race and fought off Jeff Burton Friday to win the NASCAR Nationwide series Dollar General 300 in Concord, N.C.

KEITH, Scotland, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- An anonymous benefactor distributed thousands of pounds to community groups in a remote Scottish town, handing out the money during the night.

DALLAS, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Rick Nash scored with 21 seconds left in overtime Friday, giving the Columbus Blue Jackets a 5-4 victory over Dallas.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Clutch pitching from Daisuke Matsuzaka and Justin Masterson Friday brought the Boston Red Sox a 2-0 win over Tampa Bay in Game 1 of the AL Championship Series.

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KAILUA, Hawaii, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Plastic surgery was born out of war and advances from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan benefit victims elsewhere, U.S. researchers said.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Keith Tkachuk scored twice and the St. Louis Blues produced four power-play goals Friday in rolling past Nashville 5-2.