TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Contempt charges against a former Florida professor convicted of conspiring to help terrorists could collapse because of prosecutorial missteps, experts say.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Ugandan troops have made another attempt to root rebel leader Joseph Kony and his followers out of their remote camps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The remains of nine men who were decapitated and dumped at separate sites in southern Mexico have been recovered, officials said Sunday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, had only one phone conversation with Illinois' embattled governor, sources say.
ARGHESTAN, Afghanistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Afghan and coalition forces have destroyed 2 1/2 tons of marijuana found in an unused school in Kandahar province.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The White House Sunday blasted a front-page New York Times story that says the Bush administration worsened the home mortgage crisis.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Government troops in Sri Lanka have retaken Nedunkerni in Mullaitivu District, where soldiers and rebels have been in violent clashes, officials claimed.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Taliban militants in Pakistan have killed two Afghan nationals they claim were spies for the United States, officials said Sunday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden Sunday defended plans for an expanded economic recovery plan that critics say would balloon the national deficit.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday the White House was forced to step in and save U.S. automakers after Congress failed to do so.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The United States is pushing for procedures to ensure North Korea abandons its nuclear weapons program, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says.
ASHKELON, Israel, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Hamas is capable of firing rockets that can strike targets inside Israel as far as the Negev capital of Be'er Sheva, an official said Sunday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Democrat Caroline Kennedy isn't qualified to be one of New York's U.S. senators, one of the state's leading Republicans said Sunday.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Consumers in Russia's far eastern Primorye region held protest demonstrations Sunday against new duties slapped onto foreign cars, officials said.
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Iran has begun accepting delivery of components for an advanced Russian S-300 air defense system, a senior Iranian lawmaker said Sunday.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A former death row inmate says he's grateful and relieved a $14 million judgment against Louisiana prosecutors has been retained upon appeal.
DENVER, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Passengers on a Continental Airlines jet that skidded off a Denver runway say fearful victims scrambled from the plane as flames spread in the cabin.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist lobbied feverishly to gain approval of his $1.34 billion plan to buy U.S. Sugar's farm lands, he and observers say.
HOUSTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Houston resident Nkem Chukwu says her family is "blessed" as seven of the eight children she gave birth to 10 years ago are healthy and happy.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Some of the Iraqi Interior Ministry officers arrested by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in a suspected coup plot have been released, a source said Sunday.
