WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The latest Lifetime TV/Zogby poll surveying potential woman voters in the U.S. presidential race indicates Sen. Barack Obama's 'Oprah bump' is short-lived.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department said it expected to exceed its goal of delivering 1,500 heavily armored vehicles to Iraq as soon as Thursday.
TORONTO, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The soaring value of Canada's gold-colored gold dollar known as the loonie was chosen as Time magazine's Canadian newsmaker of 2007.
OMAHA, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Doctors at the University of Nebraska Medical Center performed a rare triple-organ transplant on a 6-year old girl disemboweled in a swimming pool accident.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Shariat court, the highest Islamic court, has asked the country's citizenship act be amended as it discriminates against women.
DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The latest CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll indicates a virtual dead heat in Iowa among Democratic U.S. presidential candidates and a wide open GOP field.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Attorney in Chicago has denied in grand jury proceedings he interrogated a U.S. Marshal suspected of leaking information to the mob.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The leader of an Orthodox Jewish sect was arrested on a 37-count indictment involving tax fraud and money laundering in Israel, New York and Los Angeles.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A high court in New Delhi reportedly received a message that threatened attacks against judges and to blow up the Taj Mahal and the country's Parliament.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A Chicago-area tanning salon is being sued by two young women who discovered while tanning naked that there were peepholes in the walls.
BOLLINGBROOK, Ill., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Suburban Chicago investigators moved their search team away from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in the search for Stacy Peterson, missing since Oct. 28.
PARADISE, Calif., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- California rescue officials located a father and his three children missing since Monday in Northern California following a trip to look for a Christmas tree.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday the country faces intensified terrorist violence especially against soft targets.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Exxon Mobil has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court to argue the $2.5 billion penalty for the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska is excessive based on maritime law.
BEIJING, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- China and India, which control the world's largest armies, were set to have their first military drill marking their improving ties since their 1962 border war.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The latest poll in the U.S. presidential campaign indicated a tight race between Democratic contenders and a wide open Republican field.
GISBORNE, New Zealand, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A major earthquake struck the northeastern coast of New Zealand Thursday, causing extensive damage in the city of Gisborne, local media reported.
TBILISI, Georgia, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Excessive force was used on protesters in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi by government forces last month, Human Rights Watch claimed Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Officials expected U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to wrap up details soon on a long-delayed domestic satellite-surveillance program.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council has no solution to offer for the sovereignty dispute between Serbia and the independence-seeking province of Kosovo, members said.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Palestinian militants launched several Qassam rockets into southern Israel despite calls from Hamas for a cease-fire with Israel amid rising tensions.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. military released 100 prisoners from Baghdad's Camp Cropper prison as a goodwill gesture during the Muslim holiday of Eid.
QUEBEC CITY, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The Canadian province of Quebec has issued tough new driving laws, including mandatory winter tires, a ban on cell phone use and speed governors on trucks.
