MADRID, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A hand transplant patient in Spain is wiggling her fingers less than a month after receiving two new hands, El Pais newspaper reported Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- This was a year for the record books for computer crime with 2007 likely even more dire, Wednesday's Washington Post reported.
TOKYO, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Japan's newest fitness craze, Nordic walking, has onlookers puzzled as to why people are walking with ski poles when there is no snow.
LONDON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A proposal being considered in the British government could leave obese citizens and cigarette smokers without priority National Health Service care.
MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The Russian Federal Space Agency said the country was the 2006 leader in space launches, accounting for 45 percent of craft sent into space this year.
BEIJING, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Chinese officials say Internet users in the country are using false identity card numbers to mask their identities while accessing Web sites and games.
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Visitors from across the United States have flocked to Oregon to watch the annual migration of more than 18,000 grey whales heading toward Mexican waters.
NANCHANG, China, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Archaeologists have found a 1,700-year-old tomb dating back to the Jin Dynasty at a construction site in China's Jiangxi Province.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Washington announced the bald eagle will be officially taken off the endangered species list in February.
HOUSTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Pioneering U.S. heart surgeon Michael DeBakey is slowly getting back to work at age 98 after undergoing a surgery he himself developed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. teachers say they cannot show the environmental movie "An Inconvenient Truth" to their students because of a policy against endorsing projects.
BEIJING, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Chinese scholars have found a series of ancient wells they believe provided water for Genghis Khan's legendary hordes during their campaign in Western Xia.
MELBOURNE, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Australian scientists have identified a brain system that could not only blunt an alcoholic's craving for booze, but also the addiction.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Medicare's extension of coverage for colonoscopies led to a significant increase in the number of cancers caught early, a U.S. study finds.
URUMQI, China, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A group of Chinese scientists is attempting to identify a 2,800-year-old mummy of an apparently Caucasian man found in an ancient tomb.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Thanks mainly to Bush administration policy, the United States could soon find itself re-embracing the use of nuclear power.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Analysis of the eggs of wild birds in California's San Joaquin Valley appears to show that recycling agricultural runoff is causing high levels of selenium. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is considering expansion of the recycling program, the Los Angeles
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Non-drug approaches, such as talk therapy, should be considered before giving drugs to children with behavior or emotional issues, a psychiatry group said.
TOKYO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A breakthrough video of a giant squid led Japanese biologists to conclude that the mysterious sea beast is capable of high-speed movement through the depths. "It struggled furiously to escape by spouting water from its funnel. This means they can actually
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring are safe to eat and should be allowed into the U.S. food supply without special labeling, a report says.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A blood test may replace invasive biopsies that heart transplant patients in the United States and elsewhere undergo to check for rejection, heart experts say.
MUSKEGON, Mich., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- An invader shrimp, hopping a ride on an overseas freighter, has entered the Great Lakes, fulfilling an 8-year-old prediction by Canadian researchers.
Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler
