PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia man faces charges including attempted murder after allegedly shooting another man who was talking during the new Brad Pitt movie.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The U.N. Population Fund is providing hospitals in Zimbabwe with medical supplies and money to treat pregnant women amid a cholera outbreak, officials said.
COVINA, Calif., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Police say a California man who killed nine people Christmas Eve had $17,000 in cash and a plane ticket to Canada when he was found dead after the massacre.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The U.N. secretary-general said Friday he hoped a panel to investigate the killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto could be established soon.
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The incoming district attorney in Boulder, Colo., says he might send the JonBenet Ramsey homicide case back to police.
HONOLULU, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said a go! Airlines captain who fell asleep on a Hawaii flight admitted to taking weekly naps while in the air.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A study of crime and business cycles in 23 U.S. cities found only "weak evidence" of an uptick in crime stemming from the nation's economic woes.
BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Australian authorities have posted notices on Fraser Island and the Great Sandy Strait warning tourists to beware of crocodiles.
SYDNEY, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The Australian navy is looking into future ways to rescue submariners after its submarine rescue system failed to regain its certification.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A Tennessee candidate for the Republican National Committee sent a Christmas greeting to RNC members that included a song called "Barack the Magic Negro."
SYDNEY, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A group of unions in Australia is threatening to file a complaint against the federal government for failing to meet international workplace standards.
LONDON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Police in England are accused of overstepping their bounds by detaining Member of Parliament Damian Green, a shadow immigration minister.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An online survey of 2,000 U.S. adults indicates people are overwhelmingly glad to say goodbye to 2008 but are divided on whether 2009 will be a better year.
COVINA, Calif., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An alleged gunman who dressed as Santa and killed nine people in Covina, Calif., had been fired from his job at Northrop Grumman Corp., sources said Friday.
TEHRAN, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The speaker of the Iranian Parliament warned the governments of Arab countries Friday to stay out of the issue of his country's nuclear enrichment program.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Political observers say President-elect Barack Obama hopes to avoid the mistakes of the Clinton administration by working with Congress on a healthcare plan.
TBILISI, Georgia, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili assaulted his prime minister by punching him in the face and throwing a telephone at him, a local newspaper claimed.
RAMADI, Iraq, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Six police officers and seven al-Qaida prisoners were slain while three militants escaped during a jailbreak in Ramadi, Iraq, officials said Friday.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Medical officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported at least nine deaths from what is suspected to be Ebola fever.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The roof of a high school in western Washington gave way under the weight of heavy snow that has blanketed the northern Pacific coast.
