BEIJING, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- China seeks only peaceful development and has no desire for a hegemonic role in the world, a government spokesman said.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A New York city councilman entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to federal charges of money laundering, extortion and fraud.

CHICAGO, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Descendants of an Indian chief who became a prominent Chicago citizen say they were cheated out of land granted to him by President John Tyler.

JERUSALEM, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Rioting continued Tuesday in the Shuafat refugee camp in Israel's East Jerusalem, with residents, many of them school children, throwing stones at police.

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- San Diego officials are once again rewriting a curfew for teenagers after a California court found the current ordinance unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Washington, still digging out from the weekend storm, got more snow Tuesday as a northeaster headed up Interstate 95.

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ABUJA, Nigeria, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Vice President Goodluck Jonathan became Nigeria's acting president Tuesday by vote of the National Assembly.

BOSTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The Massachusetts medical examiner's office Tuesday ruled the death of Daniel Kerrigan, the father of ex-Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, a homicide.

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The leaders of Sudan and Chad said Tuesday they have taken steps to end diplomatic tensions between the two African nations

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A former Philadelphia police officer surrendered Tuesday to face a charge of murder in a fatal shooting outside his house while he was off duty.

GEORGETOWN, S.C., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A South Carolina woman has been told she can no longer lead a student prayer group or hand out Bible verses at Georgetown High School.

WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder, convicted of killing a Wichita, Kan., abortion provider, says he has no pity for the family of Dr. George Tiller.

DULUTH, Ga., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A Georgia man is facing mortgage fraud charges after allegedly printing up $1.6 billion in bogus U.S. Treasury bonds and trying to buy a house, officials said.

NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- An off-duty New Jersey sheriff's deputy, critically injured in a shooting at a go-go club, shot his attacker dead before collapsing, police said.