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  • Canadian train quarantined after death
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:15 PM
    SUDBURY, Ontario, May 9 (UPI) -- Canadian officials in northern Ontario quarantined a Via Rail passenger train Friday after a passenger died and 10 others became sick.
  • Food group resumes relief trips to Myanmar
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:13 PM
    YANGON, Myanmar, May 9 (UPI) -- The World Food Program said Friday it will send relief aid airplanes to Myanmar despite the government's seizure of previous aid shipments.
  • Bin Laden's 'spiritual ambassador' freed
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM
    LONDON, May 9 (UPI) -- A radical Muslim cleric believed to be the "spiritual ambassador in Europe" for Osama bin Laden is to be freed on bail, a British judge ruled.
  • McCain's 2000 vote for Bush up for debate
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Whether Sen. John McCain voted for President George Bush in the 2000 U.S. presidential election is being debated by a liberal blogger and McCain's office.
  • Fritzl recalls start of incest family
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:50 PM
    VIENNA, May 9 (UPI) -- The Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children says, "I am not the beast the media make me to be."
  • Canada to probe U.S. warships sunk in 1813
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:18 PM
    HAMILTON, Ontario, May 9 (UPI) -- The wrecks of two U.S. warships that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario in 1813 are set to be explored by Canadian scientists using submersible high-tech robotics.
  • Lebanese MP asks army to protect Tripoli
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:18 PM
    BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 9 (UPI) -- A member of the ruling alliance in the Lebanese parliament, worried about the city in the wake of violence in Beirut, Friday asked the army to defend Tripoli.
  • Americans adopt major driving cutbacks
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:13 PM
    MCLEAN, Va., May 9 (UPI) -- As gasoline prices skyrocket to $4 a gallon, many Americans are seriously cutting back on driving and tightening their budgets, government data indicates.
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    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM
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  • Murder charge possible in incest case
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:55 AM
    VIENNA, May 9 (UPI) -- The 73-year-old Austrian who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children could face murder charges, prosecutors say.
  • 50-year-old plane wreckage to be retrieved
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:48 AM
    QUEBEC CITY, May 9 (UPI) -- Safety concerns have led officials in the Canadian province of Quebec to order the retrieval of a 50-year-old plane wreck containing four bodies from a lake.
  • Hezbollah gains control of western Beirut
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM
    BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 9 (UPI) -- Syrian Social Nationalist Party units were seen Friday entering Beirut to support Hezbollah's occupation of the city's western districts.
  • Colleges accept more wait-listed students
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:38 AM
    NEW YORK, May 9 (UPI) -- Several leading U.S. universities plan to accept significantly higher numbers of students from waiting lists this year than in the past, school officials said.
  • Cash concerns cancel Clinton events, ads
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:12 AM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- The cash-strapped campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton has forced curtailments of political events and advertising as the primary season winds down, aides say.
  • Canadian iceberg activity unusually high
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM
    ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, May 9 (UPI) -- Iceberg activity off northeastern Canada is running almost double compared to all of last year's total, Canadian and U.S. officials say.
  • Marriott considers hotel in Green Zone
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 10:42 AM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- The major U.S.-based hotel company Marriott International is considering building a hotel in Baghdad's Green Zone, a Marriott official said.
  • Judge to review opinion on CIA tactics
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 10:36 AM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- A U.S district judge in New York says he plans to review a controversial legal opinion related to specific CIA detainee interrogations.
  • Missing family of 7 found safe in Arctic
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 10:05 AM
    IQALUIT, Nunavut, May 9 (UPI) -- A couple and their five children missing a week in the Canadian Arctic while traveling on a snowmobile have been found alive, police said.
  • Darfur rebels may infiltrate Khartoum
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 9:58 AM
    KHARTOUM, Sudan, May 9 (UPI) -- Darfur rebels are planning to infiltrate Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, to carry out acts of vandalism, Sudan army officials said Friday.
  • Obama speaks of unity; chides McCain
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says he wants to reassure voters the Democratic Party will be united in seeking to defeat Republicans in the general election.
SENATE CANCER
Lance Armstrong (C), cancer survivor and seven time Tour de France winner, and Steve Case (R), co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online, watch as Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, who is currently battling a recurrence of breast cancer, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Cancer challenges and opportunities in the 21st Century in Washington on May 8, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
Senate Health Committee investigates Cancer in Washington
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