ENNIS, Ireland, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. boxing great Muhammad Ali has accepted an invitation to visit the Irish town his great-grandfather left almost 150 years ago.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 5 (UPI) -- A larger-than-life statue of Abraham Lincoln was unveiled in Louisville, Ky. Thursday night to mark the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in February of 1809.

LONDON, May 15 (UPI) -- British rock 'n' roll icon Paul McCartney has called on U.S. President Barack Obama to support the OneVoice movement, the grassroots organization said.

MINGORA, Pakistan, May 6 (UPI) -- About 80 boys and 20 employees in an orphanage were trapped during a battle between Pakistani troops and the Taliban Wednesday, the facility's director said.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, April 30, 2009.

BELVEDERE, England, April 20 (UPI) -- A British teenager playing an online PlayStation 3 boxing game said he was shocked when his opponent turned out to be real-life boxing great Floyd Mayweather.

LONDON, April 16 (UPI) -- German-born radio personality and writer Clement Freud, the grandson of psychoanalysis pioneer Sigmund Freud, has died at the age of 84, his family said.

CALABASAS, Calif., April 2 (UPI) -- Hollywood Wax Museum is offering hand-sculpted wax figures and original costumes for auction, the Profiles in History memorabilia dealer said Thursday.

WASHINGTON, March 24 (UPI) -- No U.S. Essex-class aircraft carrier was ever sunk in World War II. No U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has ever been sunk or seriously disabled by enemy action. Since the first U.S. nuclear-powered carriers were built nearly half a century ago, they have never been involved in a sea war with any enemy capable of seriously threatening them.