KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Malaysia will extend its peace monitoring in the Philippines but wants to see progress in the truce talks with Muslim rebels there, a senior leader said.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Political parties in Nepal’s interim government met Thursday to resolve a dispute with Maoists over constituent assembly elections next month.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- North Korea Thursday capped a promise to end its nuclear program with a far-reaching declaration with South Korea for permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula.
SYDNEY, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has caused a political storm by cutting the number of Africans being admitted as refugees.
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- California state government’s Internet and email service was shut down for several hours Tuesday after a hacker hit a county Web site.
NEW DELHI, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- An Indian court has sentenced a former Parliament member to death and his wife to a life term in the 1994 killing of a state official by a mob, it was reported.
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said a bomb fuse containing significant gunpowder was found near a central Florida middle school.
YANGON, Myanmar, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The brutal crackdown by the military junta in Myanmar against those protesting fuel price hikes has reportedly created a climate of fear among the public.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The owner of a glass company in Arizona is accused of hiring vandals to break school bus windows his firm then repaired.
GEORGETOWN, Colo., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Teams worked Wednesday retrieving the bodies of five workers killed deep in a tunnel after a chemical fire erupted at a Colorado hydroelectric power plant.
BEIJING, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A Chinese official says China shares the most peaceful borders with its neighbors since the government was established in 1949.
CORONADO, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A Coronado, Calif., family was reunited this week with the Medal of Honor one of their own was awarded for bravery in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A 19-year-old woman has said she will appeal a federal judge's ruling in favor of the California high school that disciplined her for kissing another girl.
LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales, taken shortly before her death have been shown for the first time at the London inquest into her death.
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A family in Oregon was reunited this week with a bag full of a long-lost relative's Vietnam War letters that had somehow disappeared.
MOSCOW, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- At least seven people were killed and 36 others injured by a fire at the Moscow State Institute of State and Corporate Management.
DALLAS, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The bones of Texas' official dinosaur have been identified as belonging to a completely different species than previously thought, a report said.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Three convicted child molesters who ran a child prostitution ring have been given lengthy prison sentences in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
CARLETONVILLE, South Africa, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- More than 3,000 miners were trapped underground in a South African gold mine after power accidentally was cut to an elevator used to take them to the surface.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- San Diego's Superior Court is being sued by two of its employees who were told they couldn't hold a lunch break Bible study in the courthouse.
