WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A 31-year-old man facing charges in a recent homicide has escaped from a corrections center in the Canadian province of Manitoba, authorities say.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Bankers and Icelandic officials worked through the weekend to find a solution to the country's ailing financial system, the government said.
LONDON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The chaplain to the London Stock Exchange is recommending homosexuals be tattooed with a health warning similar to those on cigarette packs.
TORONTO, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Thousands of dollars were allegedly taken from a Montreal man's bank account by three suspects while he was being held captive in a Toronto hotel, police said.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they have discovered a particular protein, TREM-2, might be a major contributor to the development of multiple sclerosis.
PHOENIX, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Severely obese individuals who were more active by just one hour per week, reported better overall quality of life, U.S. researchers said.
WILLIAMS, Calif., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The driver of the bus that crashed in rural California and killed 10 people was driving under the influence, the California Highway Patrol alleged Monday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Leaders of the four big European economies -- Germany, Britain, France and Italy -- met in Paris Saturday and failed to come up with any kind of common European solution to the financial crisis that is battering their banks.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The Mexican economy, heavily dependent on fortunes north of the border, is showing signs of strain in key sectors, observers said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Syria has long claimed that it is tied to Lebanon in more ways than one. Over the last two weeks this statement has proven to be far more on the money than Syria ever would have imagined -- or hoped for -- as the wave of terrorist attacks that reared its ugly head in Lebanon has now exported itself to Syria.
OSLO, Norway, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The author of a book about Alfred Nobel's will says the late industrialist wouldn't be happy with some of the Nobel Peace Prizes given out in his name.
LIVERMORE, Calif., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say whether another Great Plains 1930s-type "dust bowl" again develops depends on underground water storage depth.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Archaeologist Avraham Biran, known best for his excavation of the ancient city of Tel Dan in Israel, has died in Jerusalem at the age of 98, an official says.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- At least 10 people were killed Monday in a suicide bomb attack aimed at a lawmaker in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province.
PARIS, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says the COROT spacecraft has discovered a massive planet-sized object that's unlike anything previously spotted.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A corrections center inmate in Duval County, Fla., has alleged that site officials violated his religious rights as a Sikh by forcing him to cut his hair.