UNDERHILL CENTER, Vt., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The owners of a small market in the state of Vermont say their support of Republican John McCain has nothing to do with his chances in the Green Mountain State.
OTTAWA, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- One of Canada's largest banks is warning its customers that recession will hit Canada and the United States, CTV News reported Monday.
NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Comic actress Tina Fey has reprised her role as Sarah Palin in "Saturday Night Live's" parody of last week's U.S. vice presidential debate.
OMAHA, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Campaigners for Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama say they are focusing attention on Omaha, trying to "stretch" the party's electoral map.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- At least 60 people died in southern Kyrgyzstan when an earthquake rattled the central Asian country, local emergency officials said Monday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The next U.S. president will have a nearly unprecedented opportunity to reshape the United States Supreme Court, analysts say.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A Canadian judge in Vancouver sentenced a 20-year-old man convicted of arson and five related deaths to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
NEW DELHI, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Indian media gave prominent play to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's reported statement that India has never been a threat to his country.
TORONTO, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Toronto police were investigating 26 weekend cases of car brake lines being cut of people with Liberal Party election posters at their homes.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The two major-party U.S. presidential nominees differ greatly on their approaches to the war in Iraq, The New York Times reported Monday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Defense lawyers for U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, renewed their request for a mistrial, claiming they've found more evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine was shared by three people for discoveries of viruses causing HIV and cervical cancer, the Swedish organization said.
TOKYO, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Japan's 225-stock Nikkei index plunged Monday as investors remained unmoved by the passage of the U.S. $700 billion financial bailout.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb attack Monday in central Sri Lanka killed 27 people, including the country's former army chief and his wife, the military said.
WILLIAMS, Calif., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Investigators are searching for what caused a bus to crash on a rural road in California, killing at least 10 people, the California Highway Patrol said.
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