DETROIT, July 11 (UPI) -- A former accountant who blew the whistle about fraud within the Detroit Police Department will indeed receive a $662,363 judgment from the city.
NEW YORK, July 11 (UPI) -- The Aga Khan, has gained notoriety in the United States and abroad for focusing his international business acumen on development rather than profit.
WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army in June fell short of its active-duty recruiting goal but said it was still ahead of its year-to-date goal and it expected to meet it 2007 goal.
LONDON, July 11 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday he opposes the creation of super-casinos in Britain, a plan supported by his predecessor, Tony Blair.
ANKARA, Turkey, July 11 (UPI) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan says a planned operation against Iraq's Kurdistan Workers' Party has been put on hold.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 11 (UPI) -- Derogatory comments allegedly made by Czech Republic Sen. Liana Janackova regarding the removal of Romany Gypsies may soon force her to resign.
CAIRO, July 11 (UPI) -- Egyptian police are reinforcing their nation's border with the Gaza Strip this week amidst fears an invasion by Palestinian militants is imminent.
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka, July 11 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan army has regained control of the country's eastern region from the Tamil Tiger rebel group with a recent victory in the city of Batticaloa.
WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- The al-Qaida Islamic terrorist organization may be stronger and more resilient now than it was a year ago, according to U.S. intelligence experts.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 11 (UPI) -- Lady Bird Johnson, former U.S. first lady and wife of late President Lyndon Baines Johnson, died Wednesday at 94 at her home in Austin, Texas.
WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- Ex-White House Counsel Harriet Miers will not appear before Congress to testify about the firing of several U.S. attorneys.
SACRAMENTO, July 11 (UPI) -- A bill to require pet sterilization in California died in a state senate committee Wednesday when it failed to get sufficient support.
DETROIT, July 11 (UPI) -- More than 1,000 NAACP members who gathered at Detroit's Cobo Center Wednesday took the issue of a "new state of young black America."
CHICAGO, July 11 (UPI) -- Health officials Wednesday reported the first confirmed outbreak of food-borne illness in the 20-year history of the city's summer Taste of Chicago food fest. Seventeen people who ate at the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth during the 10-day outdoor food a
LINCOLN, Neb., July 11 (UPI) -- A 24-year-old woman allegedly raped in 2004 says she will use the word "rape" in her trial testimony in defiance of a Nebraska judge's order.
WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- Hustler magazine is taking credit for leaking the news that U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., was a client of "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
MIAMI, July 11 (UPI) -- Employees of the National Hurricane Center in Miami said they are finally returning their focus to predicting weather after a storm of over an ousted director. Former director Bill Proenza was placed on indefinite paid leave Monday after publicly clashing
JERUSALEM, July 11 (UPI) -- An expert U.N. cartographer says the Sheba Farms, a small area in the northern reaches of Israel, are Lebanese territory. Israel refused to return the farms to Lebanon in 2000, claiming the land was Syrian and therefore would not be given up except as par
WILLIAMSTON, Mich., July 11 (UPI) -- A Michigan native who recently lost his northern border relations post said he was fired for opposing the White House's plans to violate a border treaty. Dennis Schornack, a former aide to ex-Michigan Gov. John Engler, likened his recent dismissal to the
HOUSTON, July 11 (UPI) -- The Ethiopian Community Organization in Houston is objecting to the upcoming display of the remains of a 3.2-million-year-old hominid from Ethiopia.
ORLANDO, Fla., July 11 (UPI) -- A twin-engine plane ignited Wednesday near Florida's Orlando International Airport shortly after its pilot was forced to make an emergency landing.
CHICAGO, July 11 (UPI) -- The United States faces an increased risk of a terror attack by al-Qaida, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told The Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- Overall violence in Iraq hit its highest level since the start of the war in June, averaging 178 attacks a day, a U.S. military intelligence assessment said.
