Published: May 17, 2008 at 1:55 AM
GITARAMA, Rwanda, May 17 (UPI) -- A Rwandan woman whose family was killed during the 1994 genocide weaves baskets now with the wife of a man who helped kill them, CNN reported.
Published: May 17, 2008 at 1:39 AM
MOSCOW, May 17 (UPI) -- A Georgian spy has been detained in southern Russia, the Federal Security Bureau said Friday.
Published: May 17, 2008 at 1:07 AM
MELBOURNE, May 17 (UPI) -- Convicted Australian drug trafficker Tony Mokbel returned to Melbourne in handcuffs Saturday after being flown from Greece on a chartered jet.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 11:58 PM
NEW YORK, May 16 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., who backed Barack Obama for president this week, said he does not want to run for vice president again.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 11:31 PM
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- The Pentagon is moving forward with a new prison at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, The New York Times reports.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:57 PM
NEW YORK, May 16 (UPI) -- A New York parking enforcement agent says an off-duty police officer beat him up and had him arrested after he ticketed the officer's girlfriend.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:54 PM
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 16 (UPI) -- The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has requested a probe of alleged torture against militia suspects at the hands of security officers.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:37 PM
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is airing ads in Kentucky and Oregon, with one ad challenging the notion that she is all but out of the race.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:27 PM
ATLANTA, May 16 (UPI) -- Atlanta's traditionally black Morehouse College has, for the first time in its history, chosen a white student as class valedictorian, school officials said.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:21 PM
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Friday called for an investigation into reports that U.S. officials tried to discourage post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:00 PM
INNISFAIL, Australia, May 16 (UPI) -- Vandals shot 12 pademelons and a wallaroo at an Australian wildlife farm, authorities said.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 9:52 PM
CHICAGO, May 16 (UPI) -- The Chicago Police Department has begun requiring officers to pass a fitness exam before they are allowed to carry an M4 assault weapon, officials said.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 9:41 PM
TORONTO, May 16 (UPI) -- The recent reversal of an 18-year-old conviction of a man in the killing his missing girlfriend will not be reviewed, the Ontario attorney general said Friday.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 8:28 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 16 (UPI) -- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee Friday apologized for telling an audience of gun rights supporters an offstage noise was Barack Obama ducking a gunman.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 8:03 PM
HOUSTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Nineteen Texas border communities Friday asked a federal court to halt construction of 70 miles of border fencing, court documents show.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 7:26 PM
YOUNTVILLE, Calif., May 16 (UPI) -- Robert Mondavi, a pioneer in California's wine industry, died Friday at his home in Yountville, Calif., a spokeswoman said.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 6:49 PM
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- The Bush administration announced caps on takeoffs and landings at the three major New York-area airports Friday in an effort to avoid delays this summer.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 6:40 PM
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- GOP presidential hopeful John McCain sees "everything" through his experience in the military and that can be "dangerous," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Friday.
Published: May 16, 2008 at 6:22 PM
LONDON, May 16 (UPI) -- A group of off-duty police officers on a flight from Egypt to Britain helped subdue a couple who got into a violent fight at 30,000 feet.