NEW DELHI, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee says a good beginning could be made in improving India-Pakistan relations at next month's scheduled summit.
TOKYO, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The first group of Japanese soldiers headed for the Gulf left Friday, Japanese time -- the first Japanese soldiers sent to foreign duty since World War II.
QUEBEC CITY, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- About 200 people were forced from their homes Thursday by floods in St-Raymond-de-Portneuf, Canada, just outside Quebec City.
ATLANTA, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The parents of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey have filed a $12 million defamation suit against Fox News Network for a report out of Denver.
ATLANTA, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A spate of employee absences forced Delta Airlines to cancel or delay at least 33 Christmas Day flights, airline officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The Bush Administration is working on a new immigration policy that will match legal immigrants with jobs, Voice of America reported Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- World Tribune.com reports U.S. and British specialists found Libya was enriching uranium before it agreed to give up its weapons program.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- One confirmed case of mad cow disease is not an outbreak, a University of Michigan professor said as he cautioned against overreacting to the news.
DARWIN, Australia, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Australian rescue workers were waiting for floodwaters to recede in the Northern Territory before resuming the search for a killer crocodile and its victim.
MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Prosecutors warn former Philippines President Joseph Estrada may be planning a trip to the United States to avert a potential death penalty trial.
FRESNO, Calif., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A 9-year-old California girl is being credited with saving Fresno's decaying Chaffee Zoo, once considered among the best in the United States.
MADRID, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Spain's interior minister says authorities prevented Basque terrorists from exploding two powerful suitcase bombs at a crowded Madrid train station.
BOGOTA, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. officials are requesting the extradition from Colombia of reputed Cali cartel drug kingpins Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela .
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- New York authorities Thursday tried to identify a corpse found in the wheel well of an American Airline's jet at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A 3-day-old girl spent Christmas in her mother's arms thanks to some quick work by Newark, N.J., police who recovered the kidnapped infant.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The former prime minister of Madagascar has been sentenced to 12 years hard labor and fined $7 million for abuse of power.
WEYBRIDGE, England, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- British scientists Thursday confirmed a preliminary diagnosis of the first case of mad cow disease among U.S. dairy cattle, the BBC reported.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich has released phase one of his "World Peace Initiative," aimed at eliminating nuclear threats.
LONDON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth Thursday paid tribute to the armed forces and toured Combermere Barracks at Windsor to chat with just-returned troops.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The Israeli Defense Force imposed a full closure on the West Bank and Gaza after a bus bombing near Tel Aviv killed at least four Thursday.
A visitor to Laumeier Sculpture Park walks past Tony Tasset's "Eye" work of art in St. Louis on June 1, 2012. Modeled after Tasset's own eye, the gigantic, blue eyeball creates a tension as the sculpture stares larger than life, across the landscape. UPI/Bill Greenblatt
