LONDON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- The Norwegian Nobel Committee has piled him high with lemons; here's how Barack Obama can make lemonade.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A defeat for the United States and its NATO allies in Afghanistan is no longer inconceivable, according to the commanding U.S. general. Hearts and minds now have priority over killing Taliban insurgents. Lost in the new casualty calculus are the 3,000 killed in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon eight years ago.

MOSCOW, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The inscription above the refurbished entrance hall of Moscow's Kuskaya Metro Station is not popular with people who remember Joseph Stalin, they say.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.

BERLIN, June 2 (UPI) -- Almost 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it has now surfaced who ordered its construction.

UPI Almanac for Friday, March 27, 2009.

MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Four months after Alexander Solzhenitsyn's death, Russia celebrated the Nobel Prize-winning writer's 90th birthday, launching a Web site on his life and work.

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008.