MEMPHIS, June 4 (UPI) -- Employees at the Memphis Zoo say they're preparing for their African elephant Asali to give birth to the zoo's newest addition.

BOLTON, England, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- An English teenager who filmed himself boasting of an assault on an Asian man that triggered a fatal asthma attack was sentenced Thursday to at least 13 years.

LONDON, July 24 (UPI) -- Medical trials for research into the common cold at a budget motel chain in Britain are being held under safe conditions, the chain's spokesman said.

LONDON, April 24 (UPI) -- A judge in Britain has ruled against British banks in a case involving overdraft charges, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Thursday.

CONCORD, N.H., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Presidential candidates campaigning in New Hampshire have found that voters are more concerned with domestic economic anxieties than with the Iraq War.

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The task of recovering the bodies of a pilot and nine skydivers killed when their plane crashed in a wooded area near Boise, Idaho, was completed Tuesday.

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EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 26 (UPI) -- A man avoided a jail term in Scotland because the woman left paralyzed when hit by a traffic cone he tossed from a bridge offered her forgiveness in court.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles Police Department has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that a local hospital has been illegally leaving patients on skid row.