Friday, November 6, 2009

UPI Top News | November 6, 2009 8:45pm CDT

CLEVELAND, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Convicted sex offender Anthony Sowell, accused in Cleveland of being a serial killer, fell into a low-risk category for offending again, a report indicates.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The White House and the Democratic Congress are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place, pressured to cut spending and create more jobs, analysts say.

FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Suicides are a serious problem at the U.S. Army's Fort Hood, the huge Texas military base where an officer went on a deadly shooting spree, records show.

CAIRO, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Despite an improving economy, nearly three in 10 young Egyptian children are malnourished, a report published by Egyptian and United Nations agencies says.

LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Two 16-year-olds were charged as adults Friday with fatally shooting a female honors student and wounding two men near a school in Long Beach, Calif.

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Muslims attending a New York mosque hear a message of peace inside while two radical converts outside preach hate for the United States.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has ended his boycott of the coalition government in Zimbabwe.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- House Democratic leaders worked furiously to nail down final votes before a scheduled weekend vote on its plan to reform the U.S. healthcare system.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Australia plans to add a multimillion-dollar water-bomber jet to its firefighting fleet to prepare for the summer fire season, authorities announced.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A proclamation honoring the victims of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, was signed Friday by President Barack Obama.

BRISTOL, England, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A convicted British murderer out on parole after serving 16 years of a life sentence is on trial for allegedly raping a woman, authorities said.

HAIFA, Israel, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Holocaust survivors have a risk of cancer two to three times that of European Jews who arrived in Israel before or during the war, Israeli researchers say.

BODMIN, England, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- An English mother died after pushing her son out of a window of their home to escape a fire that may have been started by a firework pushed into the mail slot.

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Only a small percentage of the available swine flu vaccine has been distributed to private companies, New York City health officials said Friday.

LONDON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The former head of the British Defense Staff blasted the government's Afghanistan policy Friday in a debate in the House of Lords.