JERUSALEM, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Sunday warned the Palestinian Authority to crack down on terror if it wants changes in the West Bank.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- In a new audiotape said to have been made by Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader accuses the United States of trying to build a regional base in Iraq.
CANTON, Mich., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old Michigan girl died at a ski resort in the state when she struck a wood and concrete barrier at the bottom of an intermediate slope.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Police in Scotland say a man and boy who may be father and son have been preying on elderly retirees, committing at least three thefts this month.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- One of Scotland's native mammals, the pine marten, may help save another one, the red squirrel, by driving down the population of grey squirrels.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- While al-Qaida in Mesopotamia remains the major terrorist threat in Iraq, attacks are down by 60 percent since June, the top U.S. commander said Saturday.
EDUARDO FREI MONTALVA STATION, Chile, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Norwegian cruise ship sustained minor damage overnight Saturday when it lost power and bumped into a glacial iceberg along the Antarctic coast.
SYDNEY, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Australia's largest city has cut water usage significantly since 1974 so that Sydney actually requires less water for 1.2 million more people.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- New digital speed cameras with instant playback are allowing British police officers to catch drivers who eat or talk on the telephone.
BOGOTA, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An effort to recover three hostages taken by Colombian leftist rebels was delayed for a second day Saturday, El Tiempo reported online.
OSAKA, Japan, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Japanese ambulance crew had to travel two hours to a hospital willing to accept an 89-year-old woman after being turned away by 30 other institutions.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Pakistan People's Party is free to have Benazir Bhutto's body exhumed if it wants to settle doubts about how she died, a government spokesman said Saturday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- New York Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand said Saturday Democrats won't give up challenging President George Bush's strategy in Iraq.
Riot police clash with anti-Mubarak protesters after a court sentenced deposed president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison, outside the police academy where the court is located in Cairo, in Egypt, June 2, 2012. Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that swept him from power last year. UPI/Ahmed Jomaa
