OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The number of wild Japanese deer in the Osaka area has jumped from 60 in 1979 to about 2,000 this year, thanks to the government's deer preservation project.
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Minnesota officials are investigating the theft of the tops of about 20,000 trees by thieves who will sell the 4-foot-high tops as miniature Christmas trees.
SEATTLE, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- People are gobbling up a soft drink flavored with turkey and gravy produced by a Seattle-area beverage maker on the run-up to Thanksgiving.
BOSTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- In the British Commonwealth, the day after Christmas is Boxing Day, but in the United States, Thanksgiving could also be called Plumbers' Day.
Now that the Alabama chief justice has been kicked out of office for displaying the Ten Commandment in his courthouse, pardon this religion editor for anticipat
People have been warned to tell loved one how they feel about them because tomorrow is not guaranteed, but a Web site MyLastEmail.com provides a final e-mail from beyond the grave.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- If it weren't for the fact that Americans are on holiday, Thanksgiving Day would be yet another occasion for global sales of cookbooks on a single day to exceed
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Did you hear the one about the love-struck duck whose ardor for forbidden flesh has caused the British government to put a price on his head?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- While U.S. food companies mutter over the implications of the Food and Drug Administration's requirement that by 2006 partially hydrogenated vegetable oils be l
LONDON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A survey of sexual attitudes and practices in Britain published Tuesday shows one in five would not divulge they had a sexually transmitted disease.
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Norway's vehicle registration authority has banned the prime minister's official new bombproof BMW until it loses 88 lbs.
PARIS, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A planned 20 percent cigarette price hike has sparked what is reportedly the biggest pro-smoking demonstration in French history.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A week after the Pentagon acknowledged one soldier's death might have been caused by a vaccine reaction, a U.S. senator is calling on the military to reconsider
Fans react and hold up signs as floats carrying the New York Giants rides down the Canyon of Heroes for the Giants victory ticker tape parade 2 days after the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI in New York City on February 7, 2012 . UPI /John Angelillo
