LONDON, June 14 (UPI) -- House prices will have to fall significantly before the average young Briton can afford to buy a new home in some parts of England and Wales, a study says.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- U.S. air travel will soon include fewer flights, crowded planes and higher ticket prices, thanks to rising fuel costs, analysts say.
Ford says employee buyouts on the way ... Ford stockholders stampede to sell shares ... Canadian judge ending GM blockade ... Unhygienic eatery chains found widespread ... News from United Press International.
OSHAWA, Ontario, June 14 (UPI) -- The union blockade of General Motors Canada's corporate offices in Oshawa, Ontario, was ordered shut down by Monday by a judge.
LONDON, June 14 (UPI) -- Government officials say many of Britain's top franchise chain restaurant outlets do not meet basic food safety and hygiene standards required by law.
DETROIT, June 14 (UPI) -- A spokesman for billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian says Ford Motor Co. stockholders have stampeded to offer up hundreds of millions of shares to him.
DETROIT, June 14 (UPI) -- Ford Motor Co. says a gathering of its plant managers and top union officials was told more employee buyouts are on the way for struggling U.S. automaker.
NEW DELHI, June 13 (UPI) -- India's private major General Motors India said it is working on LPG and CNG variants for at least three models of vehicles.
NEW DELHI, June 13 (UPI) -- India's Reliance Industries said it will commission its two last projects, including a refinery in the city of Jamnagar, later this year.
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- Russia's clash with the former Soviet republic of Georgia is a move to control the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Zbigniew Brzezinski told the U.S. Senate.
NEW DELHI, June 13 (UPI) -- Indian energy firm Videsh Ltd. and its domestic energy partners made a $3 billion proposal to exploit finds in the Farsi gas block in Iran, officials said.
LONDON, Ontario, June 13 (UPI) -- General Dynamics Land Systems has received a contract modification from the U.S. Army adding to the number of RG-31 Mk5E Mine Protected Vehicles on order.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has contracted Harris Corp. for high-frequency radio communications technology for implementation in mine resistant ambush protected vehicles.
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy and major American defense contractors aren't blind to the renewed dangers of submarine warfare in the 21st century: They are working on new high-tech systems to defeat the threat both below the waves and above them.
New biofuels mandates will be essential to getting the industry up and running, proponents argue, but whether the harms outweigh the benefits is still up for debate.
U.S. markets swing up Friday ... Wheat sneaks back onto small farms ... Video console sales unaffected by big game ... Lower gas prices would take several steps ... News from United Press International.
NEW YORK, June 13 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes held to gains at the close Friday, enough to put a gain of 0.8 percent in the Dow Jones industrial average for the week.
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- High prices for wheat have caught the attention of New England farmers with relatively small plots of land, agricultural experts said.
NEW YORK, June 13 (UPI) -- Grand Theft Auto IV sales, at 4.2 million copies since its April release, have yet to boost sales of the video game platforms that support it, analysts said.
ATHENS, Greece, June 13 (UPI) -- Italian energy firm Edison announced a joint venture, IGI Poseidon, with the Greek company Depa to develop a 120-mile Greece-Italy natural gas pipeline.
TEWKSBURY, Mass., June 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army contracted Raytheon Co. to support the Base Expeditionary Targeting and Surveillance System program with persistent surveillance technologies.
