WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy says it is seeking a contractor to manage and operate its Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J.
OTTAWA, July 7 (UPI) -- The value of Canadian building permits increased 1.1. percent to $6.6 billion in May, the second consecutive monthly increase, Statistics Canada said Monday.
SEOUL, July 7 (UPI) -- The union of South Korea's largest automaker says it will stage a second strike in less than a week to protest resumption of U.S. beef imports.
TORONTO, July 7 (UPI) -- Some 150 Toronto-area autoworkers laid off last week from a bankrupt plastic molding company were ignoring a court order Monday to end a blockade.
WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- Removing laptop computers from their cases at U.S. airport security checkpoints may end soon, as federal inspectors finalize details easing the restriction.
WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- Soaring fuel prices may be busting U.S. consumers' travel budget but they're boosting returns on pension fund investments, analysts said.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 6 (UPI) -- China Eastern Airlines has become the first People's Republic of China aviation company approved to set up an office in Taipei, an airline official said Sunday.
TURIN, Italy, July 6 (UPI) -- Four European carmakers are raising sticker prices for their new cars amid rising costs for raw materials, manufacturers say.
BOSTON, July 6 (UPI) -- When millions of U.S. investors open their second-quarter retirement account statements soon they might be disappointed with their dividends, analysts say.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (UPI) -- A San Francisco computer engineer has started a Web site that allows Internet users to find out whether their favorite site is working properly.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, July 5 (UPI) -- Renault, in response to soaring gas prices, plans to mass-produce electric cars, the French automaker's chief executive said Saturday.
LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- A $139 million settlement fund will compensate many Britons who flew across the Atlantic from England to the United States between two and four years ago.
WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- U.S. government officials say they are planning to suggest altering regulations to improve U.S. competitiveness in foreign markets and lure overseas investors.
DUBOIS, Pa., July 5 (UPI) -- A 16-year-old Pennsylvania girl has invented magnetic locker wallpaper that can be used to decorate teenagers' school lockers, her father says.
TEHRAN, July 5 (UPI) -- The annual inflation rate in Iran reached 26.4 percent last month, an increase of 1.1 percent from the previous month, the country's top bank says.
LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- A growing number of Indian nationals are taking advantage of their country's growth to visit Britain as tourists, industry officials say.
NEW YORK, July 5 (UPI) -- Merrill Lynch is in negotiations to sell its 20 percent stake in the financial news company Bloomberg LP to help the firm raise capital, sources say.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, July 5 (UPI) -- Russia may stop using ports in the Baltic states by 2015 to export oil and instead use a new $3.3 billion pipeline, a government official said.
LOS ANGELES, July 5 (UPI) -- Skycaps working at U.S. airports are no longer enjoying the comfortable income that handling airport baggage once brought, they say.
ONTARIO, Calif., July 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. housing downturn has spawned "ghost towns" of newly constructed California subdivisions sitting vacant for lack of buyers, an analysis found.
LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- One in eight British mortgage holders who have purchased homes since early 2007 already owe more than their houses are worth, an analysis indicates.
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