CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Latin America's Mercosur trade bloc is facing renewed internal squabbles as plans for consolidation and expansion are clouded by the aftermath of last year's fractious admission of Venezuela as full member and suspension of founding member Paraguay.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Former basketball player Latrell Sprewell was arrested for disorderly conduct after Milwaukee police received complaints about loud music, jail records said.
AURORA, Colo., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Families of victims slain in the Aurora, Colo., theater shootings in July said theater reopening plans are insensitive and they will boycott them.
BOLOGNA, Italy, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Mario Monti's election campaign for Italy's premiership has begun in earnest and includes attacking rival Silvio Berlusconi's scandal-tainted administration.
TEHRAN, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Iranian Navy concluded its six-day military exercises in waters south of Iran, with a spokesman saying all objectives were achieved.
BOSTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Massachusetts housing officials said they're phasing out a controversial program that has taxpayers paying for homeless families to live in motels.
LONDON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Great Britain's archbishop of Westminster, who opposes a government bill on same-sex marriage, said a London church's masses for gay Catholics would be ended.
GOSHEN, Ind., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Six employees of a Goshen, Ind., hospital were fired, and two more resigned, after they refused a mandatory flu shot in December, a hospital spokeswoman said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Coalition forces led by U.S. troops arrested two suspected terrorists in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. House adjourned Wednesday without considering relief for Superstorm Sandy victims, despite calls by the president, governors and lawmakers to do so.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Department of Homeland Security has published a rule it says will cut the time "U.S. citizens are separated" from relatives seeking lawful residency status.
JERUSALEM, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said a security fence nearly completed along the nation's Egyptian border is a major step forward.
NORTH BERGEN, N.J., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A man who has charged the mayor of Union City, N.J., with assaulting him at a holiday party says lawyers told him the case is a "political can of worms."
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles lawyer, who said he learned kindness and generosity from his father's example, offered his home for a year to a homeless woman and her children.
BOSTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A U.S. correspondent for the online news site GlobalPost disappeared in northwest Syria on Thanksgiving Day, GlobalPost reported Wednesday.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A Cleveland stripper was in critical condition after falling 15 feet off a balcony while performing a lap dance early Wednesday, police said.
JASPER, Ala., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Federal aviation investigators said they are still trying to determine the cause of a plane crash in Alabama that killed three people.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Two homeless Cincinnati men rescued a business owner from an attempted robbery and beating, a homeless coalition official said.
VILNIUS, Lithuania, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Lithuania said citizens punished after its 1990 independence from the Soviet Union for refusing to serve in the Soviet Army are eligible for compensation.
