BAQUBA, Iraq, March 30 (UPI) -- It takes a degree of skill and then stealth to make an improvised explosive device and then plant it on a road without getting caught. Tossing a grenade just takes murderous nerve. In Baquba, a provincial capital northeast of Baghdad, the men of nerve have made their debut.

WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- I have received more thoughtful responses from readers to my recent columns on the consequences of the poor tactics that U.S. ground forces have been using in Afghanistan.

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario, March 6 (UPI) -- Canadian historians are fighting to save a World War II German prisoner of war camp east of Toronto where the Allies kept high-ranking officers.

BERGEN, Norway, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The Norwegian government will raise the wreck of a submarine that sank off the country's western coast while carrying 65 tons of mercury, an official says.

SEATTLE, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Federal authorities in Seattle say they've recovered a gold bookmark once owned by World War II German Nazi despot Adolf Hitler.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Federal agents said Monday a neo-Nazi plot to kill U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been foiled.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- In Afghanistan, the future of NATO is at stake. In Pakistan, the survival of a unitary state is at stake. Pakistanis face an existential crisis. And Pakistani-U.S. relations are headed for a major showdown.

WASHINGTON, April 18 (UPI) -- The evolution of land weapons systems appears more like life in a tropical jungle.