CHICAGO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Chicago never had a man named Geroge in its firefighting force, but a new memorial monument to fallen heroes says there were three of them, and also a Chrles.
LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Most people in Britain have no plans to go out New Year's Eve, but a report published Thursday says 1.6 million of them will get into brawls.
OTTAWA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A Canadian politician is demanding to know why the federal government has spent $1 million on training clowns, the Toronto Sun reported Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- There was no blaming the dog or mice for a food shortage aboard the International Space Station -- the previous crew just had the munchies.
LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- British police stations are drab, unwelcoming, fortress-like places that should be transformed into pleasant places, a policy report published Thursday said.
LANGSTONE, England, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A small British town is in shock one of its residents won $1.8 million in a lottery in 2001 but kept it secret until her funeral, the Daily Mirror reported.
ORLAND PARK, Ill., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Police are seeking a man who wore a Santa suit to hold up a teller at a suburban Chicago bank and fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
ATLANTA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A British woman trying to fly home from Atlanta after Christmas will get there next week, along with the daughter she gave birth to in an airport washroom.
SEATTLE, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- More than 300 passengers on an Amsterdam to Seattle flight were recovering Thursday after numerous glitches made them 18 hours late, the Seattle Times reported.
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BUCHAREST, Romania, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A 67-year-old Romanian woman who is seven months pregnant with twin girls is due to become the oldest recorded mother.
YPSILANTI, Mich., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A fight between two female cousins over a stolen coat grew into a brawl drawing about 200 early Wednesday in the parking lot of a bar in Ypsilanti, Mich.
BOSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A snow-parking brouhaha has erupted between Boston city officials over residents' practice of saving their hard-fought parking spaces.
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ALBUQUERQUE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An 18-foot marble statue of a Buddhist goddess in Albuquerque appeared to weep just days after tens of thousands were killed by Asian tsunamis.
DETROIT, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A woman walking backward while talking to a man fell into a 5-foot deep sinkhole in the middle of a street in a Detroit suburb.
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A 119-year-old Michigan woman may be the world's oldest living person, but Arbelia Wood can't hold the official title because there's no proof of her age.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Caged pets shared miseries with human counterparts at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport paralyzed by a winter storm.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Mathematicians in Scotland aren't being nuts to think they can save the native red squirrel from its more aggressive American grey cousin.
A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic
