HENLY-ON-KLIP, South Africa, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Oprah Winfrey is set to open a new academy for girls in South Africa, and fielding questions about its $40 million price tag by saying the kids deserve it.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. officials questioned the political wisdom and the justice of expediting the execution of Saddam Hussein, officials in Baghdad told The New York Times.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Sirius and XM satellite radio services, which saw increases in their subscription bases in 2006, are reportedly in talks to merge.
CRAWFORD, Texas, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war reached 3,000 Sunday with the death of a soldier at a military hospital in Crawford, Texas, CNN reported.
BUCHAREST, Romania, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union at midnight New Year's Day, celebrating with rock music and traditional dancing.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Mourners gathered Sunday at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, some as early as 5 a.m., to pay their respects to former President Gerald Ford.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A Labor Party leader in Britain says new laws to encourage "cafe-style" drinking have failed because Britons are a nation of boozers.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A 3-year-old boy was found running on the interstate in Indiana and was saved by what Troy Crady figures was a guardian angel.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Will Jones, the first curator for the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., began work 25 years ago on plans for Ford's burial ceremony at the museum.
MADRID, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Thousands of protesters demonstrated Sunday throughout Spain against the weekend car-bomb attack at the Madrid airport, the news agency EFE reported.
MIAMI, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Efforts by Florida officials to use federal disaster aid to produce entertaining activities as a means of recovery has gotten federal criticism.
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A witness who disappeared after testifying against a former Argentine police chief on rights abuse charges has resurfaced, saying he was kidnapped.
TOKYO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is set to ask the public for opinions on his policy vision of "a beautiful country."
BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Immediately following the execution of former dictator Saddam Hussein, the news spread throughout Iraq by means of phone messages, a report says.
OTTAWA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board wants to know whether children in Israel are being abused, as some Israelis seek asylum in Canada.
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- New policies imposed on the Vatican's Swiss Guard by its commanding officer have the small unit's troops infuriated and threatening mutiny, a report says.
LONG BEACH, Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Conrad Buchanan, who tried in 1998 to save a woman from suicide and subsequently became known as a hero, has died at his California home at age 34.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Court papers detailing the specific accusations against four Marines in the deaths of Iraqi civilians in Haditha have been released in San Diego.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The Army Corps of Engineers, having admitted to design flaws in the New Orleans levees, now is trying to predict how the city would fare in the next hurricane.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., have arrested a teenage boy for allegedly attacking an area homeless man twice within seven hours over the weekend.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, a Democratic presidential candidate, says what he calls the "McCain doctrine" is the wrong approach for Iraq.
U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2012 as former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her husband Mark Kelly (R) and Vice President Joe Biden look on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 10, 2012. UPI/Pat Benic...
