RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A Saudi Arabian man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for dancing naked on the roof of a car, court officials said.
TOKYO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday 114 gallons of radioactive water have spilled into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
POKHARA, Nepal, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Two people died Thursday when an ultralight aircraft crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, possibly due to bad weather, officials said.
CAIRO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Refusing to stand for the national anthem or insulting the country's flag is now an offense punishable by jail time and/or a stiff fine in Egypt.
ANKANG CITY, China, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- An increase in hornet attacks in southwest China's Shaanxi province has killed 42 people and injured 1,640 since July, health officials said Thursday.
NEW DELHI, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A truck collided with two small passenger buses on a highway in India Thursday, killing at least 28 people and injuring 10 others, authorities said.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday her goal is to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reach a final status agreement.
TOKYO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday the United States would negotiate with Iran only if it proved it would not pursue a nuclear weapons program.
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan Thursday attacked the compound of an anti-Taliban tribal commander, leaving several dead and wounded, authorities said.
TOKYO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. and Japanese diplomatic and military officials announced an agreement Thursday to broaden the countries' military alliance.
EL-ARISH, Egypt, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The Egyptian army may consider a military strike in Gaza unless attacks on soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula stop, Egyptian security officials said.
TEHRAN, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Iran's Revolutionary Guards issued a statement Thursday denying one of its officers had been assassinated but said it would investigate.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- An advance team of U.N. and international weapons inspectors has taken the first steps toward dismantling Syria's chemical-weapons arsenal, U.N. officials said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Afghanistan has yet to conclude a security agreement with the United States beyond 2014, although the two have been engaged in prolonged talks on the issue.
ST. STEPHEN, New Brunswick, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A Canadian court has imposed a record fine on a man convicted of conspiring to smuggle narwhal tusks into Maine for distribution to U.S. buyers.
LONDON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. experts and North Korean officials held informal talks in London on the Communist country's nuclear program, sources told South Korea's Yonhap News.
BANJUL, Gambia, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- President Yahya Jammeh said Wednesday Gambia is withdrawing from the British Commonwealth, the first country to do so since Zimbabwe in 2003.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- About 56 million people in the Middle East and North Africa are active on Facebook, Jonathan Labin, regional head of the social network, says.
OTTAWA, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A CBC investigation found a former Canada Revenue Agency lawyer and a former Royal Bank of Canada executive giving advice on how to hide money offshore.
LONDON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Iran's president has an "unrestricted mandate" to resolve its nuclear standoff, Vice President Massoumeh Ebtekar said in a British newspaper op-ed.
TEHRAN, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Iran's new president tweeted back and forth with the social medium's chairman over Iran's Facebook and Twitter ban, promising to ease Internet censorship.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Two missing hikers who spent four nights on snowy Mount Albert Edward on Canada's Vancouver Island were being airlifted to safety Wednesday, officials said.
ROME, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta's coalition government won a confidence vote Wednesday with reluctant support from former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
ZARAGOZA, Spain, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- No injuries were reported initially after a bomb went off in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Spain, Wednesday, police said.
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The new commander of U.S. forces in South Korea said Wednesday he is certain North Korea could be "decisively" defeated in the event of an armed conflict.
World War II veteran Eugene Morgan of West Memphis, Arkansas, tours the World War II Memorial after members of congress took down barriers to let a group of veterans in to the closed memorial, on October 2, 2013 in Washington, D.C. All national parks and memorials are closed due to the ongoing government shutdown. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
