FORT BRAGG, N.C., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division from Ft. Bragg, N.C., will deploy to Afghanistan, the Defense Department said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush has not decided whether to ask Congress to release the second half of the financial industry bailout, the White House said.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Sweden's Supreme Court says it will not extradite a 45-year-old woman convicted in absentia of killing two men in Albania.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Activists in Pennsylvania say they're pressing ahead with a lawsuit to ban touch-screen voting machines in the state's 67 counties.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said the White House is to blame for the federal housing program passed last summer that has shown little results.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A New Zealand nursing home has apologized after a 90-year-old man's false teeth became lodged in his throat and went unnoticed for two days.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A treasure of gold coins -- 264 of them to be exact -- have been discovered near the historic Dung Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City, officials said Monday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thanked Pakistani military and intelligence officials Monday for their efforts to fight terrorism.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush dropped off nearly 150 coats Monday collected from White House staff members for the national "One Warm Coat" project.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The level of violence has dropped dramatically in Iraq in recent days from year-ago levels, a U.S. military official in the war-torn country says.
LONDON, England, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Prosecutors say Paul Kidd, a former butler to Britain's royal family, has been sentenced to at least six years in prison for child abuse.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- President George Bush will not present Congress with a second economic stimulus package before he leaves office next month, the White House said Monday.
WAIMANALO, Hawaii, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, wishing "Mele Kalikimaka" to residents, spent the first day of his Hawaiian vacation on the golf course, observers said.
NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Police in Naples, Italy, Monday arrested reputed Mafia member Mose Esposito and said they were closing in on his boss, Giuseppe Setola.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden said Monday he is concerned world leaders' expectations for President-elect Barack Obama are too high.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A missile suspected to have been fired by U.S. forces struck northwest Pakistan, killing at least eight people, security officials said.
SYDNEY, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The botched arrest of a terror suspect and his deportation from Australia point out the need for big changes to the nation's anti-terrorism laws, a report says.
DENVER, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Details of the conversations in the cockpit of an airliner that crashed on takeoff in Denver could be available Monday night, a federal investigator said.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A jailed suspect in last month's attack on Mumbai Monday asked Pakistani diplomats to help him with his case, said Indian foreign ministry officials.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Hamas' Gaza factions agreed Monday to halt the firing of rockets against areas in southern Israel for 24 hours, the resistance group said.
BERLIN, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Germany says it is willing to consider accepting some of the terrorism suspects being held at the U.S. military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Italy's Fiat will pay $7 million to settle U.S. charges three of its subsidiaries paid kickbacks to the Saddam regime in Iraq under a U.N. relief program.
TUCSON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Authorities said the pilot of an ultralight aircraft that crashed in Arizona after crossing the border from Mexico was transporting 350 pounds of marijuana.
