BRADFORD, England, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A British mother was found guilty on manslaughter for starving her 4-year-old son to death and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
CHICAGO, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A body found in a wooded area near Chicago is believed to be that of a man who disappeared last month on his way home from work, authorities said Friday.
BANGKOK, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Massive flooding in Thailand has claimed the lives of 30 people as of Friday, and has affected as many as 3 million people, officials said.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. embassy in Madagascar is warning against travel to certain places in the country after two suspected organ traffickers were tortured and killed.
BERLIN, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and its rival, the Social Democrats, Friday began exploratory coalition talks, officials said.
ANAHEIM, Calif., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A California high school has apologized for forcing a 16-year-old student to remove a National Rifle Association T-shirt.
TOKYO, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. was ordered to bring the massive amount of radioactive water being spewed by the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex under control.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said Friday he was not trying to be offensive when he compared gay marriage to marriage between a brother and sister.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- President Obama, during a walk from the White House to a Washington sandwich shop, said a House budget vote is the "only way" to end the government shutdown.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has cautioned that if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons it will be "immortal, like North Korea."
CALAIS, France, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- French police Friday began to remove about 60 Syrian refugees who have blocked a walkway to a port building in Calais where ships depart for Britain.
ROME, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi could be ousted from the Italian Parliament after a Senate panel Friday said it had voted to strip him of his seat.
MINEOLA, N.Y., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A New York state woman who admitted drowning her three children in a bathtub has asked a judge for a portion of her dead children's $350,000 estate.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Two top Senate Republicans openly discussed their party's government shutdown strategy in a conversation at the U.S. Capitol, picked up by a live microphone.
HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The United Nations Friday urged Vietnam to reconsider the conviction of human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan, who was found guilty of tax evasion.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Herman Wallace, who spent four decades in solitary in a Louisiana prison for a crime he denied committing, died two days after his release, friends said Friday.
ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The Turkish government told lawmakers Friday it wanted an extension to a mandate for cross-border operations to fight members of the PKK in northern Iraq.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Miriam Carey, the woman shot dead after a high-speed chase through Washington, had anti-psychotic medications in her home, investigators said Friday.
OXFORD, Miss., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- University of Mississippi officials have apologized for slurs from students in the audience during performance of a play dealing with the death of a gay man.
HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, known for his defeat of French troops at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam, passed away Friday at the age of 102.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The private sector in Syria has suffered more than $1.6 billion in damages because of the two-year-old civil war, the minister of industry said Friday.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Revolution may be coming to Sudan if the current administration of Omar al-Bashir maintains its grip on power, a member of the opposition said.
JACKSON, N.J., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A Catholic priest from Jackson, N.J., has been suspended from his post for allegedly sexting with a man he believed to be a 16-year-old boy.
World War II veteran Eugene Morgan of West Memphis, Arkansas, tours the World War II Memorial after members of congress took down barriers to let a group of veterans in to the closed memorial, on October 2, 2013 in Washington, D.C. All national parks and memorials are closed due to the ongoing government shutdown. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
