LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- The British government outlined plans Wednesday to crack down on illegal immigration and to ease deportations of immigrants who commit crimes.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 8 (UPI) -- Massive efforts are under way in Saudi Arabia to find three people missing in heavy rains and floods in which at least 25 people have died, officials say.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force last month stripped 17 officers of authority to control nuclear missiles in silos at Minot, N.D., the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday.
ABUJA, Nigeria, May 8 (UPI) -- Suspected Bob Haram members were dressed in military uniforms when they attacked a northeastern town, an army spokesman said Wednesday
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 8 (UPI) -- Girls as young as 6 years were raped by Congolese military personnel during a fight with rebels last year, a U.N. investigation said.
DAMASCUS, Syria, May 8 (UPI) -- An optic cable malfunction in Syria caused a 24-hour outage affecting Internet access, the state-run news service said Wednesday.
SEOUL, May 8 (UPI) -- South Korean shutterbugs appear to have inadvertently tipped off North Korea to the presence of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the region, military officials say.
LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- There's no place for armed intimidation in a Libya struggling to make post-conflict political transitions, the U.S. and British governments said Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 (UPI) -- The city of San Francisco has sued energy drink maker Monster, charging the company markets its caffeinated beverages to children despite possible health risks.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. and South Korean forces may be the target of attacks should they violate North Korean territory during Yellow Sea drills, Pyongyang said.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May 8 (UPI) -- A math tutor who owned an adult entertainment firm is suing a Florida school district for making him take down his tutoring advertisements.
ANKARA, Turkey, May 8 (UPI) -- The alleged massacre of Sunnis in the Syrian city of Banias is part of an ethnic-cleansing campaign, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, May 8 (UPI) -- Two women in Cambodia charged with procuring prostitutes repeatedly sewed a teenage girl's vagina so she could be sold as a virgin, officials say.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Cyberattacks targeting the United States pose a direct threat to economic and national security interests, a bipartisan group of senators said.
ESLOV, Sweden, May 8 (UPI) -- A 2-year-old boy whose father forgot to drop him off at day care was found dead in a hot car, police in Sweden said Wednesday.
CAIRO, May 8 (UPI) -- An Egyptian court upheld Wednesday the acquittals of 25 Mubarak-era officials accused of killing and injuring protesters during a 2011 attack in Tahrir Square.
BEAUMONT, Texas, May 8 (UPI) -- Bartholomew Granger, who killed a woman when he opened fire on a courthouse in Beaumont, Texas, last year, was sentenced to death by a Galveston County jury.
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 8 (UPI) -- The Egyptian government is at risk of erasing many democratic gains made since the 2011 revolution, the U.N. commissioner for human rights said.
CAIRO, May 8 (UPI) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will remain in detention for an additional 15 days over graft charges, Egypt's Illicit Gains Authority said Wednesday.
MOSCOW, May 8 (UPI) -- Non-governmental organizations in Russia are considered enemies of the state by Russian President Vladimir Putin, NGO leaders said.
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, May 8 (UPI) -- Police arrested a man in the stabbing of the imam of the mosque at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, Gulf News reported Wednesday.
DOORN, Netherlands, May 8 (UPI) -- The search of a wooded area for two missing Dutch brothers whose father committed suicide has been called off, police in the Netherlands said Wednesday.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 8 (UPI) -- Two organizations invested in keeping the memory of World War II alive said they are involved in a dispute over who owns papers written by Anne Frank's father.
Beyonce arrives on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Benefit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 6, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo
