VALPARAISO, Chile, May 8 (UPI) -- Two former Chilean navy officers were found guilty of abducting, torturing and killing Chilean-born, British-raised Catholic priest Michael Woodward in 1973.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- The first woman to lead the CIA's clandestine services, but involved in its divisive interrogation program, won't keep her job in an agency-announced shake-up.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 8 (UPI) -- Former NBA star Dennis Rodman called on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un via Twitter to release a U.S. citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- President Obama meets with electric utility leaders, and Asian American and Pacific Islanders national leaders Wednesday, the White House said.
JERUSALEM, May 8 (UPI) -- Jerusalem took on a festive mood Wednesday to mark the 46th anniversary of the reunification of the city after East Jerusalem was captured in the 1967 war.
BEERSHEBA, Israel, May 8 (UPI) -- Cherie Blair, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has been awarded an honorary doctorate at Israel's Ben-Gurion University.
LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking pulled out of the President's Conference in Jerusalem, joining the academic boycott against Israel.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has chosen Twitter Inc.'s legal director to be the White House's first chief privacy officer, CNET reported.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- A long-sought bipartisan "grand bargain" U.S. deficit-reduction deal will not happen this summer, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said.
TOKYO, May 8 (UPI) -- The cleanup effort in Japan's earthquake-hit Fukushima prefecture is being delayed by the unresolved nuclear crisis there, the government said.
DUBLIN, Ireland, May 8 (UPI) -- Irish soldiers who left their country's military to fight in the British army during World War II may soon be getting a belated pardon.
ALREWAS, England, May 8 (UPI) -- A monument honoring the "Bevin Boys" who worked in British coal mines during World War II was unveiled Tuesday at the National Memorial Arboretum.
LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- A pint at the local pub may be a time-honored British tradition, but the Campaign for Real Ale said the number of pubs closing jumped in the past six months.
PETERBOROUGH, England, May 8 (UPI) -- A woman was charged Tuesday with killing three men whose bodies, dead from stab wounds, were found in ditches in eastern England.
YANGON, Myanmar, May 8 (UPI) -- Tensions are rising in areas of Rakhine state where the Myanmar government is re-housing Muslims displaced after ethnic clashes with Buddhists last year.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Tens of millions Pakistanis will vote, marking the first time in Pakistan's history that an elected civilian government and will be replaced democratically.
BEIJING, May 7 (UPI) -- Chinese military experts expressed strong objections to a Pentagon report about Beijing conducting cyberattacks against the United States.
JACKSON, Miss., May 7 (UPI) -- Mississippi's Supreme Court Tuesday stopped the execution of Willie Jerome Manning, convicted in the shooting deaths of two college students.
COLUMBIA, S.C., May 7 (UPI) -- Republican former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch Tuesday for the U.S. House seat he held from 1995 to 2001.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas, May 7 (UPI) -- One-time drug dealer Carroll Joe "Outlaw" Parr was executed in Texas Tuesday for killing a teenager over a marijuana purchase outside a convenience store.
WASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) -- President Obama said Tuesday his administration must "exponentially step up our game" to root out perpetrators of sexual assault in the U.S. military.
WASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) -- President Obama said Tuesday the United States has both a national security interest and a moral obligation to see the bloodshed end in Syria.
WASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) -- President Obama and South Korea's new leader stood side by side at the White House Tuesday and vowed to stay united against North Korea's provocations.
LONDON, May 7 (UPI) -- Somali President Hassan Sheik Mohamud said Tuesday his country's stability is critical to the region as he asked donors for help at a London conference.
