SEOUL, May 8 (UPI) -- South Korean shutterbugs appear to have inadvertently tipped off North Korea to the presence of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the region, military officials say.
LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- There's no place for armed intimidation in a Libya struggling to make post-conflict political transitions, the U.S. and British governments said Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 (UPI) -- The city of San Francisco has sued energy drink maker Monster, charging the company markets its caffeinated beverages to children despite possible health risks.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. and South Korean forces may be the target of attacks should they violate North Korean territory during Yellow Sea drills, Pyongyang said.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May 8 (UPI) -- A math tutor who owned an adult entertainment firm is suing a Florida school district for making him take down his tutoring advertisements.
ANKARA, Turkey, May 8 (UPI) -- The alleged massacre of Sunnis in the Syrian city of Banias is part of an ethnic-cleansing campaign, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, May 8 (UPI) -- Two women in Cambodia charged with procuring prostitutes repeatedly sewed a teenage girl's vagina so she could be sold as a virgin, officials say.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Cyberattacks targeting the United States pose a direct threat to economic and national security interests, a bipartisan group of senators said.
ESLOV, Sweden, May 8 (UPI) -- A 2-year-old boy whose father forgot to drop him off at day care was found dead in a hot car, police in Sweden said Wednesday.
CAIRO, May 8 (UPI) -- An Egyptian court upheld Wednesday the acquittals of 25 Mubarak-era officials accused of killing and injuring protesters during a 2011 attack in Tahrir Square.
BEAUMONT, Texas, May 8 (UPI) -- Bartholomew Granger, who killed a woman when he opened fire on a courthouse in Beaumont, Texas, last year, was sentenced to death by a Galveston County jury.
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 8 (UPI) -- The Egyptian government is at risk of erasing many democratic gains made since the 2011 revolution, the U.N. commissioner for human rights said.
CAIRO, May 8 (UPI) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will remain in detention for an additional 15 days over graft charges, Egypt's Illicit Gains Authority said Wednesday.
MOSCOW, May 8 (UPI) -- Non-governmental organizations in Russia are considered enemies of the state by Russian President Vladimir Putin, NGO leaders said.
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, May 8 (UPI) -- Police arrested a man in the stabbing of the imam of the mosque at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, Gulf News reported Wednesday.
DOORN, Netherlands, May 8 (UPI) -- The search of a wooded area for two missing Dutch brothers whose father committed suicide has been called off, police in the Netherlands said Wednesday.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 8 (UPI) -- Two organizations invested in keeping the memory of World War II alive said they are involved in a dispute over who owns papers written by Anne Frank's father.
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 8 (UPI) -- Afghan authorities should investigate the arrest and alleged torture of peaceful protesters by security forces, an international rights group says.
ANKARA, Turkey, May 8 (UPI) -- Turkish intelligence officials are monitoring the withdrawal of fighters from the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, the deputy prime minister said.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., said he won't seek the state's open U.S. Senate seat, sending Democrats scrambling for a candidate.
CHONGQUING, China, May 8 (UPI) -- Twenty-one government officials and executives of state-owned businesses in southwest China have been caught in a sex video scandal, local officials said.
GENOA, Italy, May 8 (UPI) -- Rescue crews discovered a seventh body Wednesday following an overnight accident involving a container ship in the Italian port of Genoa, officials said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 8 (UPI) -- At least three Afghan civilians died and a number of others were wounded after a roadside bomb exploded in Helmand province Wednesday, officials said.
