MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- In a move to end a deepening crisis, Russia reportedly has offered to delay a massive natural gas hike for Ukraine for three months.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Two election workers of the Organization of American States have been kidnapped in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, along with one of their wives, the BBC reports.
MIAMI, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The 27th tropical storm of the year, Zeta, was in the eastern Atlantic Ocean Saturday, moving west near 5 mph with 60 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported at 11 a.m. the eye of the storm was 1,060 miles southwest of the Azores.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A look at the financing of a conservative non-profit group finds a link between indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and indicted Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Seniors have until midnight Saturday to sign up for a Medicare drug plan in order for coverage to start Sunday, but confusion remains a hindrance.
SYDNEY, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- While Australia said goodbye to 2005 with mass celebrations and increased security, countries around the world prepared for the parties.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Passengers on three Amtrak trains stopped for 29 hours because of a derailed cargo train say train officials didn't do enough.
MADRID, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Spanish courts have sentenced a member of the Basque separatist group ETA to 100 years for a deadly bombing six years ago, El Mundo reported.
CRAWFORD, Texas, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush on Saturday recapped 2005 and stated his confidence the United States could meet any challenges that 2006 brings.
SANMING CITY, China, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- China confirms a seventh person dead from the H5N1 bird-flu virus but can't determine where the 41-year-old woman contracted the illness.
WHITE ROCK, British Columbia, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Police in a British Columbia city are looking for three teenagers accused of pushing an 81-year-old man into oncoming traffic.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- National Haitian elections -- scheduled for Jan. 8 -- have been postponed for the fourth time, said electoral officials.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- New York City police statistics show crime falling in most major categories for 2005, with the lowest murder count since 1963.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Three bombs in Iraq Saturday morning brought deadly violence for a second straight day as U.S. officials say the insurgency is weakening.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Georgia National Guard soldiers who found a baby with spina bifida during a raid in Baghdad have arranged for her to go to the United States for treatment.
RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors in North Carolina want a federal appeals court to reject a Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald's bid for a new trial on charges he killed his family.
A one-of-a-kind 8 x 4 foot portrait of Marilyn Monroe made from 2,100 bite sized stuffed cupcakes stands in the lobby next to her wax figure on the eve of Marilyn Monroe's 86th birthday at Madame Tussauds in New York City on May 31, 2012. UPI/John Angelillo
