Nov. 17 (UPI) -- At least seven people were killed in a gas pipeline explosion in Bangladesh on Sunday, police officials said.

Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Pope Francis said Sunday that the greed of a small number of wealthy people increases the hardships of the poor during a Mass on World Day of the Poor.

Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Bei Bei the giant panda will travel from the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., to China on Tuesday as part of a conservation project.

Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A brewing storm system has the potential to bring locally heavy rain to portions of the southwestern United States, including California, this week.

Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei condemned fuel protesters as "thugs" on Sunday as the country limited access to the internet.

Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia's Aramco is planning to sell a 1.5 percent stake in an initial public offering, placing the value of the oil giant of $1.6 trillion to $1.7 trillion.

BANKOK, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- South Korea and the United States put off their wintertime combined air exercises to support diplomacy with North Korea with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper urging Pyongyang to reciprocate the goodwill by returning to nuclear talks.

Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, with ultranationalist support in rural areas, defeated moderate Sajith Premadasa in the presidential election in final results announced Sunday.

Nov. 17 (UPI) -- On Nov. 17, 1989, Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution began following the put down of a student demonstration by riot police.

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Democrat John Bel Edwards won his second term as Louisiana's governor by 2 1/2 percentage points in a runoff against Republican Eddie Risponse on Saturday night.

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Prince Andrew has denied accusations of sexual misconduct put forward by one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers in an interview aired Saturday, but admits having stayed at the deceased financier's home after Epstein was

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Five people are dead and one injured after a man shot dead his estranged wife and three children before turning the gun on himself in San Diego on Saturday morning, police said.

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- From Pennsylvania to Michigan, a handful of ski resorts are taking advantage of the unusually cold start to November to open their slopes to the public weeks earlier than normal.

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- PrePresident Donald Trump on Saturday underwent the first portion of his physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., declaring "everything very good."

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The Trump administration ousted Matthew Doherty, the executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, from his role Friday.

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Protesters, reacting to tripling of gasoline prices and rationing, took to the streets in several major cities in Iran for the second day Saturday.