LONDON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- British police said they are investigating the mobile phone records of people in the Portuguese village where little Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Virginia prosecutors said they have charged 13 alleged hackers for cyber attacks on institutions that would not process donations to WikiLeaks.
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The Northern Lights were captured in Iowa and Montana Tuesday night.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Adobe Systems Inc. said 2.9 million customers had their IDs, passwords and credit-card data stolen by hackers who breached the U.S. software company's security.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- An error-ridden science paper submitted in an effort to expose unethical academic publishers was accepted by 157 open-access science journals, its author says.
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- An eminent U.S. seismologist is urging the installation of a national early warning system to alert people to an impending earthquake.
PARIS, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- U .S. online retailer Amazon says proposed French laws supporting independent bookstores against competition from Web-based retailers is "discrimination."
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The pollutant metal selenium, which can accumulate in plants, can kill honeybees or delay their development, a study led by researchers in California found.
MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Facebook says more than 17 million users this week have generated about 45 million posts related to the U.S. government shutdown.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Water vapor in Earth's stratosphere contributes to warmer temperatures and likely played an important role in the evolution of Earth's climate, researchers say.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- World-class triathletes are tough and therefore successful because they feel less pain than most people, researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel suggest.
SPIRIT RIVER, Alberta, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A pipeline crew in northern Canada discovered a "beautiful" dinosaur fossil this week when a backhoe sliced into the tail, scientists say.
CAIRO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Egypt says an exact replica of the tomb of Tutankhamun will be installed near the 3,000-year-old original to divert tourists away from the threatened site.
LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The number of British children with mobile phones has fallen for the first time but only because more and more are turning to tablet computers, a report says.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Scientists say they've discovered 60 species new to science, including a chocolate-colored frog and a tiny beetle just a tenth of an inch long, in Suriname.
