TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale and three slightly smaller aftershocks hit Taiwan Tuesday, killing at least one person.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan's foreign minister said the country would plant land mines along its border with Afghanistan to prevent terrorist movement across the frontier.
BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Serbia's Defense minister said the recent access to NATO's Partnership for Peace program is Belgrade's major step toward joining the European Union.
LAGOS, Nigeria, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- As many as 500 people were feared dead Tuesday when a gas pipeline being vandalized exploded in the Nigerian capital of Lagos.
BONN, Germany, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A U.N. Conference on Early Warning in Germany has been told not enough has been done to prevent widespread death in the next Southeast Asian tsunami.
ASTRAKHAN, Russia, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Russia's Federal Security Service announced Tuesday the arrest of six Muslim extremists who allegedly planned a New Year's Eve terror attack in Astrakhan.
LONDON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Britain's Conservative opposition warned against the Labor Party's proposed reforms to legal aid, saying it will lead to fewer lawyers.
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The government of Turkmenistan announced Tuesday that the election to replace the late President Saparmurat Niyazov would be Feb. 11.
LANSING, Mich., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An official with the Michigan Retail Association in Lansing, Mich., said post-holiday return policies have become sterner in recent years.
NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An Italian security expert who was with former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko the day he was poisoned has been arrested in Naples on arms smuggling charges.
BASRA, Iraq, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An Iraqi general is angry that British troops raided a "rogue" police station in Basra to free prisoners who were apparently about to be killed.
MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Administrators of a space mission set for launch Wednesday in Russia say the purpose of the spacecraft is to find new planets.
BEIJING, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An international "Russian Culture" conference underway in Beijing deals with the national character and philosophical origins of the country.
MADRID, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A Spanish senior surgeon who examined Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana announced Tuesday that the 80-year-old president does not have cancer.
PRISTINA, Serbia, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- There will be no further talks once a U.N. envoy announces his proposal for Serbia's mainly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province, a media report said Tuesday.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A Baghdad appeals court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for a 1982 massacre of 148 Shiite men in Dujail.
BEIJING, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A poll of more than 10,000 people in China found nearly 90 percent said the gap between the wealthy and the poor is too high, the Xinhua news agency reported.
PLEVEN, Bulgaria, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Bulgaria will employ about 10,000 people in the construction of its second nuclear power plant at Belene, on the Danube River bank.
LONDON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Despite a February 2004 ban, more than 300 mounted foxhunts began around England and Wales Tuesday in the annual Boxing Day tradition.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Solemn remembrance services convened throughout Southeast Asia Tuesday to commemorate the deaths of 230,000 people in the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami.
ORMOC, Philippines, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Firefighters in the central Philippines city of Ormoc said Tuesday 24 people, including pregnant women, were killed in a department store fire Christmas Day.
A visitor to Laumeier Sculpture Park walks past Tony Tasset's "Eye" work of art in St. Louis on June 1, 2012. Modeled after Tasset's own eye, the gigantic, blue eyeball creates a tension as the sculpture stares larger than life, across the landscape. UPI/Bill Greenblatt
