LONDON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Task forces looking for ways to undermine radical Islam in Britain recommend a media unit to wage a battle of ideas and an investigative commission.
SYDNEY, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The former leader of the Australian Labor Party calls the country's alliance with the United States "the last manifestation of the White Australia mentality."
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A leading proponent of abolishing the federal estate tax reportedly looked into using Hurricane Katrina victims to promote the cause.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- While the U.S. Federal Trade Commission tries to combat identify theft, several federal agencies continue to use Social Security numbers.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Emergency officials in Southern California have realized in the wake of Hurricane Katrina they should start thinking big in disaster planning.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Federal Emergency Management Agency leaders ordered workers in the Preparedness Division to stop Hurricane Katrina work and move their office to Virginia.
NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Doctors say the quick thinking of a New York City father helped save a 10-year-old girl after she was gunned down in the street.
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- More than 2,000 children separated from their parents during the rush to escape Hurricane Katrina are still living in shelters and foster homes.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The search for New Orleans' dead continues with emergency workers finding the bodies of people trapped in their beds as flood waters surged.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Due to a new federal law, millions of copies of the Constitution are being distributed for lessons on the nation's founding document in U.S. schools.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded four firms contracts of $500 million each for Hurricane Katrina cleanup in Louisiana and Mississippi.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- In another bloody day in Iraq Saturday, a car bomb killed at least 30 people in Baghdad, and the bodies of nine men were found shot and tortured in the city.
BOSTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The Massachusetts Board of Rabbis wants the state to channel excess Hurricane Katrina donations and volunteer energy to the area's needy.
HOUSTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Forty percent of New Orleans evacuees now in Houston say they could not evacuate because they were unable to leave or cared for someone who could not leave.
BEIJING, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- An international economic group predicts China will grow to become the biggest exporter in the world and third largest economy within five years.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- People entering New Orleans this weekend will be handed a two-page warning that begins: "You are entering at your own risk."
SYDNEY, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- An Australian appeals court has cut the prison term of a man convicted of a series of vicious gang rapes from 55 years to 26.
MADRID, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- An al-Jazeera reporter has been taken into custody in Spain for fear he may flee the country after being charged with financing al-Qaida.
LONDON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Britain's National Health Service has gone into the red despite record increases in government spending, government statistics reveal.
QUEBEC, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Andre Boisclair, the front-runner for leadership of Canada's Parti Quebecois, has admitted doing "some things in excess" in his younger days.
