DETROIT , March 8 (UPI) -- American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. and the striking United Auto Workers union are holding talks this weekend. The Detroit News reported that industry observers say even as negotiations inch forward it is becoming ap …

BEIJING , Aug. 1 (UPI) -- China Wednesday reported the rescue of all 69 miners , who had been trapped since Sunday in a flooded coal mine in central Henan province. Xinhua news agency reported the first of the 69 miners emerged from the shaft at 11:38 a.m …

BOULDER, Colo. , Sept. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists said they believe a collision of two asteroids beyond the orbit of Mars 160 million years ago might have caused the extinction of dinosaurs. Researchers led by William Bottke of the Southwest Research Inst …

WHITE SANDS , N.M. , Oct. 27 (UPI) -- On Oct. 23 the U.S. Army opened the Future Combat Systems Test Operations Complex at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Dennis Muilenburg , Future Combat Systems program manager , said during opening ceremon …

KUWAIT CITY , March 10 (UPI) -- Tests for avian influenza on more than 300 people in Kuwait have so far come back negative. Officials told the KUNA news agency Saturday that the results of 280 of the 308 samples taken were back and had proven negative. At …

BALTIMORE , Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Brian Billick , who took the Baltimore Ravens to the Super Bowl XXXV title and coached the team for nine seasons , has been fired. The Ravens' Web site Monday included a schedule of a news conference with team owner Steve Bisc …

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Boeing said Jan. 7 it had replied to a MDA request for industry feedback on the follow-on GMD program. Boeing said in a statement it had sent its reply to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's request for information, on the curr …

LOS ANGELES , Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles judge Wednesday sentenced actress Lindsay Lohan to 30 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation , officials said. The 25-year-old "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday" star is on probation for drunken driv …

MOSCOW, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Natural gas pipelines for Russian gas deliveries to Europe might have economic benefits but they carry risks as well , an economist said. Russia started filling its Nord Stream gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea to Germany with s …

EAST NAPLES , Fla. , Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Sheriff's deputies in Florida said they arrested a man who allegedly choked his wife during an argument surrounding their Yahtzee game. Collier County sheriff's deputies said the wife of Ian Stuart Wood , 50 , told th …