DULLES, Va., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a follow-on contract to Orbital Sciences Corp. to continue development of a spacecraft system.
BINGEN, Wash., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Washington state-based Insitu Inc. announced a milestone achievement for unmanned aircraft communication capabilities following recent flight testing.
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Iran complains that Iraq owes it billions of dollars in reparations from the Iran-Iraq war as both sides search for political solutions to an oil-well seizure.
TURIN, Italy, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Serbian President Boris Tadic and Fiat Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne said Fiat would invest $143 million in Zastava cars by the end of the year.
STAVANGER, Norway, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Norwegian energy giant Statoil announced it was fined $4.2 million for an oil spill from the Statfjord A oil field in early December 2007.
ZUG, Switzerland, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- German authorities delivered a permit for the construction of a 31-mile section of the Nord Stream pipeline in its waters, the Nord Stream consortium said.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Uganda rejects any suggestion that Libya is moving to take a sizable share of Uganda's oil reserves, a Foreign Ministry official said.
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Iran is in the process of testing a new generation of uranium centrifuges as it moves toward a 20-percent enrichment threshold, atomic directors said.
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MALGOBEK, Russia, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Natural gas supplies to the Russian republic of Ingushetia are "normalized," taking regional consumers out of the cold, emergency officials said.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Multinational forces were called on to ramp up their patrols in northern Iraq to protect vital oil export arteries, a spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry said.
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A new pipeline from Turkmenistan to China contributes substantially to the diversity of the regional energy sector, top Russian officials said in Kazakhstan.
LONDON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The ability of global players to pump more oil creates a market buffer to compensate for trouble in the Iraqi and Nigerian oil sectors, market analysts said.
LUANDA, Angola, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Oil ministers arriving in Luanda, Angola, and industry researchers said the world's dominant oil cartel would leave production levels unchanged for now.
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Development at two additional phases of the South Pars gas field will add 1.7 billion cubic feet of gas to Iran's production capacity, executives said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. employers are hiring cautiously by adding temporary workers and keeping them on temporary status longer, statistics indicate.
BERLIN, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- World leaders failed to put aside their national interests to save the climate at an utterly chaotic U.N. conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
SYDNEY, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Protesters attempted to shut down Newcastle, Australia's main coal export terminal, Sunday, for what they say is the failure of the Copenhagen climate-change talks to produce a just, effective and legally binding treaty.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. customers may feel duped when they are charged extra at a UPS Store for sending a package by U.S. mail, a market critic said.
U.S. retailers ironically faced the farmers' timeless adversary this weekend: A winter storm that socked in Christmas shoppers on a critical shopping day.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Dutch automaker Spyker said Sunday it has made an updated offer on Saab to General Motors, which owns the Swedish car brand.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Taiwan fell significantly behind South Korea in certain economic indicators during the last decade due to government decisions, a professor said Saturday.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Sweden has reacted with dismay and gloom at news that U.S. automaker General Motors will close down its Swedish subsidiary, Saab, experts say.
Fans react and hold up signs as floats carrying the New York Giants rides down the Canyon of Heroes for the Giants victory ticker tape parade 2 days after the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI in New York City on February 7, 2012 . UPI /John Angelillo
