OTAGO, New Zealand, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- New Zealand's environment court has rejected a plan to develop the country's biggest wind farm, on the grounds that it would ruin the surrounding landscape.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Judicial authorities in Iran should investigate allegations of sexual violence and abusive behavior in the national prison system, Human Rights Watch said.
KARBALA, Iraq, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Candidates with the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council trounced Sadrists in an unofficial primary contest in Karbala for January parliamentary elections.
MIAMI, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Ida was downgraded to tropical depression status Tuesday morning as it saturated the U.S. Gulf coastal states with rain, forecasters said.
PARIS, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Defending Paribas Masters champ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was a second-round winner Tuesday in the 2009 event in Paris.
COLDSPRING, Texas, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Other emergencies delayed deputies' response to increasingly frantic calls from a southeastern Texas home where four people were found dead, officials said.
LONDON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A baby with a neuromuscular condition that prevents him from moving or breathing can be taken off a ventilator, a British judge said Tuesday.
TRENTON, Ontario, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A Canadian teenager was recovering Tuesday, a day after military rescuers in aircraft plucked him from a free-floating ice floe in Hudson Bay.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A house fire that killed three women and a man in Oklahoma City was deliberately set, investigators said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Blackwater tried to buy the silence of Iraqi officials after the company's security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians, former company officials said.
MEMPHIS, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Ten University of Memphis fraternities are on two-week suspension from social activities as a warning about inappropriate behavior, university officials said.
OTTAWA, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Canada's top military commander says the country's military mission in Afghanistan ends in 2011 and that's when he will pull the country's troops out.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A 9-year-old Cincinnati girl allegedly was raped by a fellow student on her school's bus, authorities said.
BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A college student and his mother have filed suit against Southern University in Louisiana for injuries sustained during a hazing event, records showed.
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A Virginia slumlord was sentenced to jail time and house arrest in one of his properties where he had ignored property maintenance violations, officials said.
DENVER, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The head of a Denver school dismissed a volunteer and filed a police report alleging the volunteer used masking tape on two 14-year-old boys, records show.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices closed below $79 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, as a once threatening storm dissipated in the Gulf of Mexico.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Grain futures closed mixed on the Chicago Board of Trade as stocks fell flat on Wall Street and the dollar rose against the euro.