ABOGBO, Nigeria, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An explosion in Abogbo, Nigeria, killed 42 people while villagers attempted to salvage fuel from a vandalized pipeline.
LONDON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The British navy's most technologically advanced submarine was undergoing repairs after a crucial component failed during its first test.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Mauritania police were investigating whether gunmen who killed four French tourists were affiliated with al-Qaida.
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hosted Israeli officials in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheik to discuss border security issues and proposed housing activity.
SEMARANG, Indonesia, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An official with Indonesia's disaster management agency said at least 61 people were killed by landslides in Central Java province.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The Jewish Agency for Israel welcomed 40 Jewish immigrants from Iran amid allegations of an intolerant regime in the Islamic Republic.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced plans to discuss settlement issues during a Thursday meeting.
YEOSU, South Korea, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The South Korean navy has located an object on the sea floor that may be the hull of a cargo ship that sank Tuesday off the southern coast of South Korea.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Officials at San Francisco General Hospital said two men injured by an escaped zoo tiger that killed one other person could be released as early as Wednesday.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Diplomats are scrambling to prevent the Afghan government from expelling two international officials for holding talks with members of the Taliban.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Turkish military sources said five Kurdish rebels were killed in fighting with Turkish forces in the southeastern part of the country.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Illinois pre-empts the U.S. federal government on Jan. 1, adding a species of sage to its list of Schedule I narcotics, the strictest level of control.
NDJAMENA, Chad, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Humanitarian officials in Chad say new international peacekeeping forces must remain separate from relief efforts or risk undermining them.
ROTHLEY, England, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A Christmas plea by the parents of Madeleine McCann shown worldwide produced hundreds of tip calls Tuesday but the British girl remained missing.
MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow sent Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI a congratulatory Christmas Day message wishing him well.
BAIJI, Iraq, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Iraqi police say at least 35 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a pair of suicide bomber attacks Tuesday in Iraqi towns north of Baghdad.
PANAMA CITY, Panama, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old girl was found alive Tuesday when authorities located the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Panama, killing three other people.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A suspension bridge over the Bheri River in southwestern Nepal collapsed Tuesday, sending scores of people into the waters below.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- One person was killed and two others seriously injured Tuesday when a tiger escaped its enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo and attacked them.
NEW YORK, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New York has upheld the government's decision to refuse Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan an entry visa to the United States.
Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, wears a bee cap at a press conference at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, ended her competition when she misspelled the word, * ingluvies *, the craw in birds, but she said she expected to return next year. UPI/Mike Theiler
