Sunday, October 4, 2009

UPI | Top News - October 4, 2009

MIAMI, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A Miami law firm allegedly helped jailed financier R. Allen Stanford establish an unregulated money pipeline to Antigua, The Miami Herald reported Sunday.

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was set Sunday to meet Kenyan military and political leaders to discuss progress on reforms, officials said.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The deliberations over whether to send up to 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan need to be wrapped up soon, a retired senior military officer says.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The United States is likely to see 10-percent unemployment levels "for a while," former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Sunday.

ABUJA, Nigeria, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Two field commanders for a Nigerian rebel movement say they have accepted a government amnesty offer in exchange for disarming.

WRIGHTWOOD, Calif., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Wildfires burned 3,500 acres, destroyed three homes and threatened hundreds more in Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains Sunday, authorities said.

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A partial, fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at a Las Vegas hotel was not sold at auction because bids were too low, an auction house official says.

MONROE, N.C., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Investigators said three people killed in a house fire in Union County, N.C., could have lived if a working smoke detector had been in the home.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Suspicion of government and public unease about vaccines has resulted in a flood of misconceptions about the U.S. swine flu program, experts say.

BAGHDAD, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- An official with Iraq's Interior Ministry said five people, including two civilians, were killed Sunday during gunfights in Baghdad.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Terror detainees now being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would face vastly harsher conditions if they are moved to U.S. federal prisons, experts say.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A virulent strain of E. coli bacteria known as O157:H7 still sickens thousands of Americans each year despite regulations, The New York Times reported Sunday.