CARDIFF, Wales, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A man stabbed and killed the mother of his four children after she changed her marital status in her Facebook profile to single, a Welsh prosecutor alleged.

EXETER, England, April 2 (UPI) -- A British court convicted a 43-year-old woman of child cruelty for pushing her 12-year-old adopted son's face into a plate of hot spaghetti.

LONDON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Singer Jade Ewen will represent Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest after winning a televised contest, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber says.

LONDON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Britain's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has decided not to participate in the world-renowned Crufts dog show.

CHICAGO, June 25 (UPI) -- U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will get a taste of Chicago this Fourth of July when thousands of frozen deep-dish pizzas from Lou Malnati's arrive.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A U.S. study finds Earth's magnetic field has changed little during 2,000 million years, lending support to the "Snowball Earth" hypothesis.

The weekly UPI Today in Music package for Narch 1-7.

Today's birthdays include country singer Doc Watson in 1923 (age 80); guitarist Willie Chambers of the Chambers Brothers in 1938 (age 65); Lou Reed in 1943 (age 60); Irish rock guitarist Rory Gallagher and New York cop-turned-rocker Eddie Money, both in 1

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