BEIJING, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Myanmar is entering a period of development that should encourage foreign investors to warm to the former junta, China's envoy to the nation said Friday.
MOMBASA, Kenya, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Kenyan police said they were involved in running battles with rioters Friday after a militant Muslim cleric and three other men were shot dead in Mombasa.
BARTOW, Fla., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A Florida judge ordered that a $1 million house be taken from a woman convicted of killing the lottery-winning owner after getting control of his estate.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- "Tainted" death sentences given to former regime officials illustrate the "state of disarray" in Libya's justice system, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
HANFORD, Wash., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A senior scientist, who criticized a project to build a facility to treat nuclear waste at the Hanford nuclear complex in Washington, said he's been fired.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- President Obama in nationwide polls isn't getting high approval ratings, but certain cities do give him positive ratings, a Harris Poll indicated.
TEHRAN, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attitude toward Iran is an example of Israel's warmongering, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan said.
HAMDEN, Conn., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A majority of U.S. Catholics say they agree with Pope Francis' view that the church is too focused on flashpoint social issues, a Quinnipiac poll said.
ASSISI, Italy, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Pope Francis, speaking Friday in Assisi, Italy, called for "an end to armed conflicts, which cover the earth with blood."
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. government shutdown is proving less draconian than presidential warnings but failing to raise the debt ceiling and default would be another matter.
WASHINGTON -- Senior military officials gave emotional accounts of the negative effect of the government shutdown-induced furloughs on their workforce, many of who are still reeling from the effect of furloughs due to sequestration.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has expressed its concern about the treatment of opposition leaders in Bahrain to its close partners in Manama, the State Department said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Hispanics' perception of the impact of unauthorized immigration on the United States Hispanic community has improved since 2010, a Pew poll indicates.
PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. residents are closely divided on their views of how the U.S. Supreme Court is performing, a Gallup poll released Friday indicates.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Afghan leaders are called on to support a national agenda in 2014 rather than campaign in a contest of personalities, the U.N. special envoy said.
TURIN, Italy, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Turin, Italy, newspaper La Stampa received a package containing explosive powder and video footage of people protesting a high-speed rail link, police said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Belgium has extradited to the United States a Tunisian to face federal charges of working with al-Qaida in a bomb plot in Europe in 2001, U.S. officials said.
MOSCOW, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- All 30 Greenpeace activists detained in protests at a Russian oil rig pleaded not guilty to piracy charges, the Russian Investigative Committee said.
MIAMI, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A Miami police officer, Malinsky Bazile, was convicted of stealing the identities of 1,000 people to claim fraudulent income-tax returns, court officials said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Rwanda didn't get a waiver from U.S. sanctions because of its support for the rebel March 23 Movement in the DRC, the U.S. State Department said.
TBILISI, Georgia, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Georgian nationalists said during a protest in Tbilisi they were worried Russia may stake its claim to more of Georgia's sovereign territory.
BACHEVSK, Ukraine, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- One person died and two were injured Friday when a suicide bomb exploded at a Russian-Ukraine border checkpoint, Ukrainian officials said.
AZAZ, Syria, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Rebel brigades in Syria said they are in the midst of an armed standoff with an al-Qaida affiliate group over control of a town near the Turkish border.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A former California student was convicted of the attempted rape and kidnapping of a teacher -- an incident he described as a "senior prank," prosecutors said.
NAPA, Calif., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A wildfire in Napa County, Calif., has burned through 500 acres, but firefighters said they have stopped the spread of the blaze.
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney arrive on the red carpet at the New York Premiere of Gravity at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City on October 1, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo
