MANAMA, Bahrain, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Authorities in Bahrain said several people were wounded during an activist's funeral that turned into a battle with government troops.
PRINCETON, N.C., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A North Carolina farmer who has long sold lambs and goats to Muslims for holiday sacrifices has been barred by the state from hosting the slaughters.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The borderless zone of the European Union expanded to include nine European countries Friday in the largest expansion of the international consortium.
DENVER, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A 60-year-old Colorado man is suing an 8-year-old boy and his father for a skiing collision that caused tendon damage to the man's shoulder.
ORANJESTAD, Aruba, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba said they uncovered Internet communication suggesting the Alabama teenager was dead.
TOKYO, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A top Japanese government official said the country is suspending humpback whaling during reform talks at the International Whaling Commission.
LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials said a suicide bomber's assassination attempt on a former official killed at least 50 people in a crowded mosque in the city of Lahore.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department has been asked by the CIA to probe whether a former agency officer acted illegally in describing the waterboarding of a prisoner.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin welcomed a city council vote approving the demolition of four major public housing developments to make way for new residences.
GLASGOW, Scotland, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Heavy fog hampered the search Thursday for missing crew members of a Scottish tugboat that capsized in the River Clyde.
NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A former New Jersey police officer was sentenced to almost three years in federal prison Thursday for his part in an oxycodone-peddling scheme.
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Fewer retirees are being drawn to Florida, which was in fourth place last year in the net migration of people above the age of 55.
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A Nevada man has been charged with killing his girlfriend's 4-year-old son and then staging a car crash in a coverup attempt.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The Indian government Thursday reportedly told Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who is in hiding in the country, not to go out in public.
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Tests of six 2008 U.S. minivans have found that minor crashes can cause severe damage, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Thursday.
NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A New Jersey man admitted Thursday he killed his live-in companion during a trip to Pakistan, hid the body and attempted to profit from his death.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Three years after the underground DVD "Stop Snitching" put Baltimore's crime problem in the national spotlight its producer is ready to release a sequel.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- South Africa's chief prosecutor said Thursday he has evidence to bring corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, the new head of the African National Congress.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The only man charged in Northern Ireland with the Omagh bombing, the deadliest terrorist attack of the Troubles, was cleared Thursday of all charges.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Attorneys general from 43 U.S. states have come out against legislation that would relax restrictions on Internet gambling.
