MUNICH, Germany, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The largest ship ever built out of Lego blocks may not be as large as the real thing but a German enthusiast's scale model of an aircraft carrier is still big.
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GORIZIA, Italy, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A study of the game of chess by Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli has been discovered in northern Italy after it was feared lost.
ROSWELL, N.M., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The planning director for the city of Roswell, N.M., says the possibility of an extra-terrestrial themed amusement part in the city is "looking very positive."
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A British radiologist says his research reveals sword-swallowers are prone to sore throats, perforated intestines, internal bleeding and hemorrhages.
TRENTON, N.J., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A man in New Jersey became the first Indian-born politician in U.S. history to hold the office of state governor, even if his tenure lasted one day.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A New York man has filed suit against a hospital that tried to discharge him despite his discomfort that turned out to be a surgical sponge left in his chest.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Two New York men have been charged with stealing the Christmas collection at a church by walking out with a safe containing $20,000 in cash and checks.
SUFFERN, N.Y., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Thieves in Rockland County, N.Y., have been stealing Baby Jesus figures from lawns and leaving them at local high schools.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A security camera captured images of two men leaving a New York home with more than $1,000 worth of stolen Christmas presents.
LANGHORNE, Pa., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Web sites, such as Pennsylvania's Swapagift.com, are offering U.S. consumers options, including exchanges, for unwanted gift cards.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The big toe of a statue in Scotland honoring philosopher David Hume has become a regular destination for people seeking instant insights.
HAMBURG, Germany, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Pregnant women in Germany who are due any day now might be hoping their children arrive on or after Jan. 1, 2007, so they can collect up to $33,000.
COOPERSTOWN, N.D., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A site in North Dakota that housed nuclear warheads during the Cold War is eyeing a possible second life as a museum.
JAKARTA, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Indonesian Deputy Speaker Zainal Maarif was fired by the Islamist Parti Bintang Reformasi -- Reform Star Party -- for taking a second wife.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A University of Virginia study found that women experience less anxiety during stressful events when they hold hands with their husbands.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The Alabama attorney general's office has settled a lawsuit allowing exotic dancers to use flesh-colored liquid latex in lieu of opaque clothing.
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
