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SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Utah's Supreme Court ruled a dead boxer's sister cannot sue the state's Athletic Commission because the agency is protected by government immunity.

BERLIN, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- As many as 12,000 people worldwide have been identified as suspects by German police who cracked an Internet child pornography network.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Billions of dollars of U.S. funding to Pakistan reportedly have been wasted instead of going to fight al-Qaida and Taliban terrorism.

OMAHA, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- An airplane bomb scare forced a Southwest Airlines flight en route from Las Vegas to Connecticut to make an emergency landing in Omaha.

KURMITOLA, Bangladesh, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Two ancient statues of the Hindu god Vishnu headed to a Paris exhibition were stolen from a Bangladesh airport.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Scheduling his wedding saved New Yorker Matthew Fulgieri's life when the man he met that day turned out to be the perfect kidney donor.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- An Indianapolis couple who acted as their own attorneys in a school dress-code lawsuit got an unexpected bill after missing court deadlines: $40,931.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Cigarette maker Philip Morris USA has voluntarily agreed to sell self-extinguishing cigarettes in Maryland three months before state law requires it.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- President George Bush Monday telephoned 10 armed forces members overseas to wish them a Merry Christmas and thank them for serving the nation.

LONDON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A thick fog grounded several flights at London's Heathrow Airport, leaving hundreds of holiday travelers stranded Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb attack killed 10 people, four of them soldiers, in the Swat valley, where Pakistani forces have been fighting pro-Taliban rebels for weeks.

WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Polish police arrested 59 Chechens, who were carrying Russian passports, as they tried to illegally cross into Germany, a border police official said.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka on Monday claimed its security forces had killed 28 Tamil Tiger rebels in clashes in the troubled northern region of the island nation.

FORT MYERS, Fla., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania FBI fugitive was arrested in Miami Sunday after an off-duty sheriff's deputy in Fort Myers, Fla., recognized him from a Saturday television show.

CHAPARRAL, N.M., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Four people were arrested and 100 roosters seized at an illegal cockfight pit in Chaparral, N.M.