UPI Almanac for Tuesday, May 27, 2008.

WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- It's springtime in the Middle East once again, and that usually means that fighting season may breakout soon. Unless….

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Since the beginning of the Atomic Age, policymakers and scholars have attempted to come up with formulas to constrain the nuclear genie.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain swept up key New York endorsements and $1 million in support at an event in midtown Manhattan.

MOSCOW, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- The recent furor about the U.S. assessment of Iran's nuclear program has overshadowed developments in North Korea, where the six-party talks on its nuclear disarmament are dragging on and may collapse altogether, despite public assurances to the contrary.

UPI Almanac for Monday, Nov. 19, 2007.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep, Saul Bellow once said. The illusion, yet again, is a Middle Eastern peace conference in November or December that would produce the final outlines and contents of an independent state of Palestine. Seldom has such a vision appeared more chimera than reality, and yet seldom pursued more vigorously, this time by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has logged eight trips to the region in ten months, in the elusive pursuit of a legacy other than Iraq.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Protests greeted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he prepared to speak Monday at Columbia University in New York before addressing the United Nations.

HOUSTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped up surveillance of Coretta Scott King after her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated.