HOUSTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Police said a woman died during a flight from Brazil to Dallas, and although there are no signs of foul play, her death is under investigation.
SOUTHINGTON, Conn., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A community group in Connecticut said it is holding a violent video game return event in response to the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Airstrikes carried out by the Myanmar government against rebel fighters in Kachin state have alarmed the United States, officials said.
BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The father of a teenage Pakistani advocate for girls' education who was shot by the Taliban, was given a job in Britain, close to his daughter, officials said.
MESA, Ariz., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Arizona said Jodi Arias should get the death penalty for allegedly fatally stabbing and shooting her boyfriend, which she said was self-defense.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. unmanned aircraft strike killed a Pakistani militant commander and five others in a northwestern tribal region, security officials said Thursday.
SAQQARA, Egypt, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Archaeologists in Egypt uncovered about 8 million mummified animals during excavations of a dog catacomb in Saqqara about 19 miles from Cairo, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The House will vote on $9 billion to help Northeastern U.S. states hit by Hurricane Sandy, Speaker John Boehner said after getting an earful from his own party.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A New York newspaper that drew nationwide anger after publishing gun-permit holders' names and addresses is now protected by armed guards, the publisher said.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Al-Jazeera agreed to buy the struggling Current TV current affairs channel partly owned by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and start a 24-hour news channel.
LONDON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A British comedian who called the television sex scandals a "witch hunt" was arrested Wednesday as he returned to London, his lawyer said.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- An Irish climber leading a group up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania was killed by lightning Wednesday, his family confirmed.
KIEV, Ukraine, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Ukraine says it will work diligently to resolve "frozen conflicts" as the new 2013 chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was discharged Wednesday from a New York hospital after treatment for a blood clot on her brain, the State Department said.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- More than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since big protests began there in 2011, the United Nations said Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Funerals were held Wednesday in Pakistan for five teachers and two health workers gunned down in Swabi, about 80 miles northwest of Islamabad.
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- South Korean officials said Wednesday they restarted a nuclear reactor shut down in the face of reports that inferior parts were used in at least two reactors.
LONDON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Britain "forcibly stripped" Argentina of the Falkland Islands, expelling the inhabitants, 180 years ago, Argentina's president said Wednesday.
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The woman accused of killing a 10-year-old Nevada girl pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to murder and kidnapping charges.
