TORONTO, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A Canadian Liberal party senator is proposing legislation that would require all eligible voters to cast ballots or face a fine.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- New York City put fewer stray dogs and cats to death in 2004 than in any year on record since the 1890's, the New York Times reports.
RUSHWORTH, Australia, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Australian paramedics found a man who had fallen 46 feet down an old gold mine shaft Saturday in northern Victoria.
CRAWFORD, Texas, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- President Bush said Saturday he was sending a delegation led by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to help tsunami-relief efforts.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, Mohammed ElBaradei, is seeking a third term with the agency, despite U.S. opposition.
PHUKET, Thailand, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Thai officials are using elephants to retrieve the bodies of the people who died in this week's deadly tsunamis, Sky News reported Saturday.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Evangelical leader James C. Dobson is threatening six Democratic senators if they block conservative appointees to the Supreme Court.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- California began Saturday treating gay and lesbian couples registered as domestic partners the same way it does heterosexual married couples.
JABALYA, Gaza, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A Palestinian rocket blasted the home of a refugee family in the northern Gaza Strip Saturday, killing a 10-year-old Palestinian girl.
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Argentine authorities arrested one of the owners of the Buenos Aires nightclub where 175 mostly teenage people died in a fire, CTV News reported Saturday.
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Federal and local authorities Saturday questioned a New Jersey man suspected of shooting a laser beam at an airborne police helicopter and an airplane.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Nearly 1 million people crowded New York's Times Square to celebrate the unusually balmy arrival of 2005, the New York Times reported Saturday.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Nearly one week after unprecedented tsunamis in the Indian Ocean trashed South Asian and African coastlines the death toll is approaching 150,000.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- In his annual New Year's Day report, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist warned against trying to remove "activist judges."
