DENVER, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Airline passengers in the United States may no longer carry loose lithium batteries in checked luggage starting Tuesday over concerns of battery fires.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- India reportedly has quietly stopped arms sales to Myanmar, which may bring more global pressure on the military junta to ease up its crackdown on democracy.
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. Marine sergeant was ordered court-martialed for his alleged role in the killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha two years ago.
WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Poland's chief veterinary officer said 29 meat producers would soon begin exporting to Russia, following Moscow sanitary experts' approval.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A mother and four of her children were killed in a head-on collision with a pickup truck that was driving the wrong way in Toledo, Ohio, authorities said.
PRETORIA, South Africa, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Allies of Jacob Zuma, new leader of South Africa's African National Congress, accuse President Thabo Mbeki of orchestrating Zuma's corruption indictment.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Belgium is ringing in the New Year in quieter fashion than usual after security concerns scrubbed a planned fireworks show in Brussels.
TEHRAN, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The fervor nearly three decades after the Islamic Revolution in Iran is dwindling as the once influential clerics falter in the face of secular politics.
MILFORD, Conn., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A Maryland man was charged with kidnapping and raping a young girl who was among illegal immigrants he was allegedly transporting from California to Boston.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The world's largest peacekeeping mission -- joint U.N. and African Union forces in Sudan's Darfur province -- kicked off with severely depleted forces.
DENVER, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A 20-year-old anti-abortion activist called for a November 2008 ballot question that would declare the unborn as people under Colorado law.
BEIJING, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- President Hu Jintao said Monday China will stick to peaceful means under its policy of one country-two systems to reunify Taiwan.
CASEY KEY, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Charity and arts patron Rhoda Pritzker, a member of one of Chicago's wealthiest families, died at age 93 at her winter home in Florida.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- An Alaskan skier escaped an avalanche with only a compound leg fracture despite being swept 1,500 feet down a mountainside.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- British fraud investigators have requested data from three big drug companies that allegedly paid bribes for Iraqi contracts during Saddam Hussein's reign.
CRAWFORD, Texas, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush wished the United States a Happy New Year Monday, reassuring Americans that the U.S. economy remained vibrant heading into 2008.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- An Anglican communion service for gay clergy members was apparently performed in Britain without the knowledge of top church officials.
ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Turkish authorities have been moving against a militant group believed to be connected to al-Qaida and a deadly 2003 bombing spree.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The police chief of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, did not permit an autopsy on slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a lawyer said Monday.
Miss Rhode Island Olivia Culpo, right, reacts after being announced the 2012 Miss USA, as Miss Maryland Nana Meriwether applauds during the 2012 Miss USA competition at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 3, 2012. UPI/David Becker
