OXFORD, England, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A British woman said the device she created to help her battle insomnia as a student is now available for $210 online.
BRISTOL, England, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The prostitute whose experiences inspired the TV series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" has revealed herself as a research scientist at a British university.
BOSTON, England, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A British woman said she started giving birth to her son in a bathroom after seven medical workers told her she was not in labor.
BRISBANE, Australia, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The head of a New Zealand expedition said his team is attempting to retrieve whiskey that explorer Ernest Shackleton took with him on his South Pole expedition.
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. software developer said it has created an iPhone application inspired by the hoax story of a Colorado boy trapped in a balloon.
DALLAS, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- This holiday season, young visitors can enter the Nieman Marcus store in Dallas though an 85-foot fantasy-themed portal, officials said.
COLUMBIA, S.C., Nov. 16 (UPI) -- South Carolina officials said more than 10,000 decks of playing cards bearing the images of victims in unsolved cases have been sold in the state's prisons.
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Too little of Leona Helmsley's multibillion-dollar trust fund for dogs is being dispersed for canine care, more than 30 U.S. animal rights groups say.
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PLAINS, Ga., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. taxpayers group is objecting to giving national park status to a gas station once owned by Billy Carter, the brother of former President Jimmy Carter.
CANBERRA, Australia, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- An Australian economics professor said he has developed a way to put dollar values on major life events such as birth and marriage.
PHOENIX, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- An anonymous patron has returned a pair of library books to a Phoenix high school 51 years after they were due, school officials say.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Bernard Madoff's name gave extra value to his onetime possessions Saturday as they were auctioned for more than $1 million in New York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. marshals began auctioning Bernard and Ruth Madoff's personal possessions Saturday in a New York hotel in the first of a series of sales.
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- An anonymous blogger in the Brazil has created an online list of men whose lovers have cheated on them, say some of those named.
ROME, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi brought amusement to a Friday photo op in Rome by distancing himself from a much taller Serbian official.
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Police in Tennessee said a woman arrested on a charge of driving under the influence apparently mistook an officer for a server at a Sonic Drive-In.
SANTA FE, N.M., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A New Mexico senior who lost her savings in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme says she has taken to drawing portraits of the convict as therapy.
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