BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. citizens visiting Brazil will have to be fingerprinted, starting Thursday, by authorities before entering the country.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf has become the country's head of state for the next five years, the BBC reported.
BAM, Iran, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Searchers digging through the rubble of an Iranian earthquake found a man alive who apparently had survived for six days in his collapsed house.
MANILA, Philippines, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- At least 22 people were killed and hundreds of others injured during New Year's celebrations in the Philippines, Channel News Asia reported Thursday.
JAKARTA, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- An explosion rocked Indonesia's war-torn province of Aceh on New Year's Eve, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 30 others.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in a year-end report released Thursday, ripped a federal law he said comes close to intimidating federal judges.
