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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.
Aurora borealis lights Northern U.S in spectacular show
By VERONICA LINARES, UPI.com | Blog
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."
Toxic metal selenium said a risk to honeybees critical to agriculture
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.
Egypt to install twin of King Tut's tomb to protect original
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.
Field trip in Suriname yields 60 species new to science
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.
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Members of Congress and WWII Veterans Break Down Barriers at the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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World War II veteran Eugene Morgan of West Memphis, Arkansas, tours the World War II Memorial after members of congress took down barriers to let a group of veterans in to the closed memorial, on October 2, 2013 in Washington, D.C. All national parks and memorials are closed due to the ongoing government shutdown. UPI/Kevin Dietsch