UPI Almanac for Monday, Oct. 13, 2008.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007.

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Sharon Stone's American manners caused problems when she arrived late Sunday at a banquet for Nobel Peace Prize winners in Oslo.

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Terrorism will prevail until the world addresses its "root causes," Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus said in Norway on accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.

OSLO, Norway, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Cat Stevens will make a rare appearance next month at a concert in Norway to be held in connection with the Nobel Peace Prize. Stevens, who was popular in the 1970s and now goes by the Muslim name Yusuf Islam, will appear at the Dec. 11 Nobel Peace Concer

OSLO, Norway, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded to deliver small loans to impoverished people have been selected for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 17 (UPI) -- The International Telecommunications Union celebrated the first annual World Information Society Day Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland.

Some of the world's most impoverished nations have turned to mobile technology when it comes to meeting their telecommunications needs. Unlike land lines, which

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