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British court recognizes prenups Saturday 04th of July 2009 01:53:16 AM LONDON, July 4 (UPI) -- A British appeals court has ruled prenuptial agreements should be used to determine the division of marital assets when couples split up. In its precedent-setting ruling, the court ruled in favor of Kristin Radmacher, a German paper heiress, The Daily Telegraph reported. Radmacher appealed a High Court ruling that her ex-husband, Nicolas... Read more	Vatican: Relics analysis is inconclusive Saturday 04th of July 2009 01:41:56 AM VATICAN CITY, July 4 (UPI) -- Analysis by the Vatican Museums' diagnostics laboratory neither confirms nor rules out that relics alleged to be those of St. Paul are from the apostle. Ulderico Santamaria, the head of the lab and a science professor at Tuscia University, urged caution in assuming the remains are those of St. Paul, the Italian News Service ANSA re... Read more
Six die in fatal London blaze Saturday 04th of July 2009 01:41:18 AM LONDON, July 4 (UPI) -- Six people died and 30 were rescued after a fire swept through a tower block in Southeast London Friday. The BBC reported the blaze developed quickly. Special rescue units supplemented 100 firefighters who responded, Tom Chidley, deputy assistant commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, said. Emergency workers took 20 people to th... Read more	Marines fight Taliban in southern province Saturday 04th of July 2009 01:23:55 AM GARMSER, Afghanistan, July 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Marines in southern Afghanistan spent the day Friday fighting rather than meeting with residents and local leaders as they planned, officials said. Taliban insurgents increased their attacks in the Helmand River valley, especially in the district of Garmser. They fought an eight-hour battle from a walled housing compo... Read more
Police: Fatal bus fire was arson Saturday 04th of July 2009 01:23:08 AM CHENGDU, China, July 4 (UPI) -- Police in Chengdu, China, say they believe a fatal bus fire in early June was deliberately set. The fire in Sichuan Province killed 27 people, including the alleged arsonist, and injured 74. The state-run Xinhua news service identified the alleged arsonist as Zhang Yunliang, an unemployed 62-year-old native of Suzhou City in eas... Read more	Police:Fatal bus fire was arson Saturday 04th of July 2009 01:11:55 AM CHENGDU, China, July 4 (UPI) -- Police in Chengdu, China, say they believe a fatal bus fire in early June was deliberately set. The fire in Sichuan Province killed 27 people, including the alleged arsonist, and injured 74. The state-run Xinhua news service identified the alleged arsonist as Zhang Yunliang, an unemployed 62-year-old native of Suzhou City in eas... Read more
Ban asks to visit Aung San Suu Kyi Saturday 04th of July 2009 12:52:07 AM NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar, July 4 (UPI) -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the Myanmar military junta Friday for a meeting with dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Ban said the generals reminded him the Nobel Peace Prize winner is on trial, The New York Times reported. He said he told them he would appreciate a meeting before his departure late Satu... Read more	RAF fighter jet crashes in Scotland Friday 03rd of July 2009 07:38:47 PM LEUCHARS, Scotland, July 3 (UPI) -- A Royal Air Force pilot and navigator were killed when their fighter jet slammed into a remote Scottish hillside during a training exercise, officials said. Another Tornado F3 involved in the same exercise returned to the base, RAF Leuchars in eastern Scotland north of Edinburgh, The Aberdeen Press and Journal reported Frida... Read more
Honduran troops seen shooting protest bus Friday 03rd of July 2009 06:57:16 PM TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 3 (UPI) -- Honduran soldiers were caught on video shooting the tires of buses carrying protesters supporting deposed President Manuel Zelaya. The video, obtained by CNN and televised Friday, was reportedly taken just outside Tegucigalpa by a supporter of Zelaya en route to a demonstration in the Honduran capital in favor of Zelaya's... Read more	U.K. officials fear H1N1 uncontainable Friday 03rd of July 2009 04:31:56 PM LONDON, July 3 (UPI) -- Health officials in the United Kingdom say the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, may not be containable due to the rampant spread of the influenza infection. The Scotsman (Edinburg) said U.K. Health Secretary Andy Burnham issued a projection that had the United Kingdom enduring more than 100,000 new cases of swine flu daily before the end of Aug... Read more
Iran threatens British embassy trial Friday 03rd of July 2009 04:28:02 PM TEHRAN, July 3 (UPI) -- Iranian authorities indicated Friday they planned to put some members of the British Embassy staff in Tehran on trial, officials said. Nine staff members were seized after the unrest sparked by Iran's disputed presidential elections on June 12. Some were released but the number still detained was unclear. Iran accused the Embassy ... Read more	Cardinal Newman nearing canonization Friday 03rd of July 2009 03:07:26 PM VATICAN CITY, July 3 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree Friday that moved Cardinal John Henry Newman, founder of the Church of England's Oxford Movement, closer to canonization. The Times of London said Benedict's decree clears the way for the beatification of the late cardinal, who converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1845. The ... Read more
Indonesia party using scarves in posters Friday 03rd of July 2009 03:02:38 PM JAKARTA, July 3 (UPI) -- Indonesia's Golkar political party has taken an unusual approach to the presidential election by featuring head scarves known as jilbabs, an expert says. Siti Musdah Mulia, an Islamic studies professor at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, said Golkar campaign posters feature the wives of the party's presidential and vice pre... Read more	Latvia lacks funds to house convicts Friday 03rd of July 2009 01:31:31 PM RIGA, Latvia, July 3 (UPI) -- Latvia's prisons' chief said he faces a mission impossible with a rising number of convicts and a 30 percent cut in the state budget to maintain the facilities. Police Gen. Visvaldis Pukite, chief of the Latvian prison administration, told Justice Minister Mareks Seglins the number of inmates is growing and by the end of this year... Read more
Serbia court jails Islamic extremists Friday 03rd of July 2009 12:36:51 PM BELGRADE, Serbia, July 3 (UPI) -- A Serbian court Friday sentenced 12 Islamic extremists, known as Wahhabis, to prison terms of between six months and 13 years after their terrorism convictions. The Belgrade District Court sentenced the leader of the group to 13 years in prison, two were given eight years each, one received 7-1/2 years, two received seven year... Read more	Japanese diplomat new IAEA director Friday 03rd of July 2009 12:35:58 PM VIENNA, July 3 (UPI) -- The international nuclear watchdog based in Austria has elected a Japanese diplomat as its leader, ending a months-long stalemate. Yukiya Amano, formerly Japan's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, will be its director general when Mohamed ElBaradei retires in November, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Amano com... Read more
Cruise ship with H1N1 cases set to dock Friday 03rd of July 2009 12:35:26 PM COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 3 (UPI) -- A Princess Cruises ship with 14 crew members infected with the H1N1 virus is set to dock in the Danish capital, an official says. Health inspector Arne Scheel Thomsen said hospital staff in Copenhagen have been informed of the possibility of impending swine flu patients, despite the fact the ship's crew and passengers have ... Read more	Seoul: N. Korea's firings to provoke South Friday 03rd of July 2009 12:16:08 PM SEOUL, July 3 (UPI) -- North Korea's test-firing of short-range missiles may have been to provoke South Korea, an official in Seoul said Friday. South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said leaders thought the firing was made in regard to the relations between the two countries, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported. Unless it is... Read more
OAS head heading to Honduras Friday 03rd of July 2009 12:11:17 PM TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 3 (UPI) -- The head of Organization of American States is scheduled to arrive in Honduras Friday hoping to return the country's deposed leader to power. OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza is heading to the Honduran capital to meet the provisional government that assumed control of the poor Central American country after the ... Read more	Police deem $10M townhouse fire is arson Friday 03rd of July 2009 11:15:39 AM MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, July 3 (UPI) -- A fire that destroyed 60 townhouses under construction this week west of Toronto was declared to be a $10 million arson, police said. In a release, Peel Regional Police said they were seeking a suspect seen in a security video as well as a witness who likely would have seen the suspect Monday night in the city of Mississau... Read more