HUDDERSFIELD, England, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Officials with Britain's Royal Mail say they may suspend delivery to the home of a woman with an aggressive cat.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The "Friends and Family" whose contracts for discounted condos in a Donald Trump tower in Chicago have been voided may not be feeling so friendly.
LONDON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- London's Hyde Park hotel is being sued by a New York couple who allege they were bitten by bed bugs while staying at the British locale last year.
EULESS, Texas, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A Santeria priest has taken a Texas town to court, arguing its ordinance against slaughtering animals within the city limits is religious discrimination.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A Vietnamese pig farmer says the classical music he plays over the loudspeakers at his farm has a soothing effect on his animals.
NORWICH, England, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- British newscaster Emma Baker unknowingly fixed her bra and joked around with her co-workers during a live feed from the Anglia TV local news.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Devoted Chicago Bears fans have begun offering various services, such as home financing or free tiling, for tickets to this week's NFC championship game.
PERTH, Scotland, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The official opening of salmon fishing season in sections of Scotland's river Tay has been delayed due to warm temperatures. The delay, the first since the start of the salmon season was set for the middle of January 150 years ago, is a result of warm win
BEIJING, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- In the run-up to hosting the 2008 Olympics, Beijing officials say it's 5,580 public toilets down, and 1,000 to go in its modernization campaign.
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PARKES, Australia, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Organizers of an Elvis Presley festival in Australia are claiming a world record by gathering 147 Elvis impersonators at one location.
MINOT, N.D., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Wildlife experts, after a young mountain lion was reported sighted in Minot, N.D., stress the odds of seeing a cougar in a city are slim.
AURORA, Ill., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A 49-year-old man from Aurora, Ill., broke his second world record after peddling on a stationary bike for more than 82 hours.
OSLO, Norway, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A 63-year-old Norwegian transsexual who tried to apply for two different passports has had his request rejected by the Norwegian state police agency. The Norwegian, a crime fiction writer whose name was not released, wanted one passport to indicate "male"
CHICAGO, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The already-steep prices at some of Chicago's top restaurants are continuing to go up, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday. Alinea, named by Gourmet magazine as the best restaurant in the nation, has just raised the price of its 23-course dinner from $1
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- When Wikileaks.org goes live in the next two months, the Washington Post said the Internet site will serve as a depository for damning government documents. Based on the model taken by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the new Web site will allow people
LONDON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- British Royal Navy officer Polly Hatchard celebrated her recent visit to the South Pole by stripping down to a bikini in the freezing cold for a photograph.
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Henry County police are in shock over four young men's decision to cause a small chemical explosion at a Wal-Mart in Georgia to mask their theft of a toy.
