MOSCOW, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- About 90 percent of the heroin imported to Russia comes from Afghanistan via Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, a Russian drug-control official said Friday.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A Canadian who spent 14 years in prison for the slaying of a teenage girl before his verdict was overturned won't be tried again, prosecutors said Friday.
BOSTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Barack Obama took time out from his presidential duties Friday and turned to his political ones, speaking at a fundraiser for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
BRISTOL, England, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Three British teenagers could face prison for racist attacks on Asian merchants that were caught on closed-circuit television, a judge has said.
MOSCOW, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Making voluntary chemical castration a part of Russian law is not the most effective way of dealing with pedophiles, the head of a parliamentary committee says.
LONDON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A scientist who has studied the genetic origins of residents of the British Isles said Friday a nationalist politician misinterpreted his research.
MIAMI, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Floridians and other coastal denizens have been mostly spared this storm season, which so far has yielded the fewest hurricanes since 1982, weather experts say.
GDYNIA, Poland, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Conditions within the Polish air force are inadequate to the point of being "pathetic," a report by a human rights ombudsman revealed.
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The United Nations' communications technology arm OK'd a one-size-fits-all, energy-efficient mobile telephone charger, the organization said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A former U.S. Army contracting officer drew a 40-month prison sentence for accepting bribes for truck contracts in Afghanistan, the Justice Department said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A former U.S. State Department employee was placed on probation for a year Friday for accessing confidential passport files, the Justice Department said.
BRIDGEWATER, Mass., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts church bell will toll again after 20 years of silence, thanks to volunteers who restored it to its former glory, the church's pastor said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The United States needs to do more to counter bioterrorism threats to its own interests and international security, says a report from the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Afghan election officials prepared the logistics for the Nov. 7 runoff election against the backdrop of NATO developments on the war strategy.
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council called on Iraq and Kuwait to hasten their work on the search for persons and property missing from the first Gulf War.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A North Korean bank and its president were designated as proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. Treasury Department said Friday.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The president of Prairie View A&M University says all pledging activities at the Texas college are on hold after the death of a 20-year-old student.
BOSTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A suspect in an alleged terror plot to kill mall shoppers was raised in Boston and is the son of a former Boston doctor and Muslim leader, the FBI said.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden pushed back against his predecessor Friday, saying it was wrong to say the Obama administration was dithering on Afghanistan.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A contract between New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its British counterpart is attracting close scrutiny, The New York Times reports.
