Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the U.N. General Assembly has a choice to make between a blessing and a curse during the 79th assembly in New York on Friday.

Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The first person convicted of participating in a week-long riot in Britain over the summer, arrived in prison to begin his sentence, authorities confirmed Friday.

Sept. 27 (UPI) -- A New York aquarium came to the rescue of a rare blue lobster spotted hanging out with the standard-color crustaceans in a supermarket's tank.

Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Ireland's Data Protection Commission on Friday fined Meta more than $100 million for privacy law violations related to failing to properly encrypt and store passwords of the tech giant's users.

Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Inflation continued to inch closer to the Federal Reserve benchmark target Friday, falling to 2.2% year-to-year in August, and beating Wall Street forecasts.

Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Former Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishida was elected by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Friday as its leader and, de facto, the next prime minister.

For the eight U.S. states that adopted bans against large capacity magazines, the odds of a child being killed during a mass shooting dropped by 91%, according to new findings.

New research shows that infants who were exclusively fed breast milk during their hospitalization right after birth were 22% less likely to develop asthma in early childhood.

Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Pope Francis asked for forgiveness in Belgium for the Catholic church's clergy abuse scandal and its poor response to it on Friday, but the country's prime minister called for faith's leadership to do more.

Union members in new and old industries alike are increasingly using strikes to demand higher wages, better benefits and increased job security.