JERUSALEM, July 10 (UPI) -- Kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is in good condition and will be set free soon, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said.
BOGOTA, July 10 (UPI) -- A novel public transportation system called bus rapid transit may hold the key to combating climate change in developing countries, a Colombian economist says.
ATLANTA, July 10 (UPI) -- The economic downturn is providing a sales boost for the U.S. rent-to-own industry, a spokesman for the sector's second-largest retailer says.
JERUSALEM, July 10 (UPI) -- The Israeli air force has submitted a formal letter of request to the U.S. Pentagon to purchase 25 F-35 stealth fighters, Israeli defense officials said.
NEW YORK, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. markets inched upward Friday morning as investors feared the second quarter's corporate reporting season would be disappointing.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. regulators are taking a closer look at management positions at troubled Citigroup, a source close the discussions said.
JERUSALEM, July 10 (UPI) -- The Dead Sea has reached the next stage in the international competition grading the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, Israeli tourism officials said.
L'AQUILA, Italy, July 10 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi for help in repatriating a child kidnapped by her Libyan father two years ago.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, July 10 (UPI) -- Bulgaria found 42 illegal migrants in a truck transporting peppers as it attempted to cross to Romania at a northern Bulgarian checkpoint, officials said.
BAGHDAD, July 10 (UPI) -- Iraq's Kurdish leaders are quietly pushing ahead with a new constitution alarming some Iraqi and U.S. officials, observers say.
LOS ANGELES, July 10 (UPI) -- Terry Kinney has signed on to join the cast of the U.S. television drama "The Mentalist," CBS announced.
OTTAWA, July 10 (UPI) -- Canada's unemployment rate nudged up 0.2 percentage points to 8.6 percent in June, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- School students are among the first in line for H1N1 flu vaccinations when the U.S. campaign against the pandemic begins in the fall, federal officials said.
MONTREAL, July 10 (UPI) -- Canadian animal rescue officials say they can't prosecute a Montreal woman for keeping hundreds of small animals in her apartment under old laws.
LOS ANGELES, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will not direct the big-screen adaptation of Michael Lewis' book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" as planned.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. trade deficit decreased in May compared to April's revised figures, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday.
LONDON, July 10 (UPI) -- The High Court in London has ordered Express Newspapers to pay actress Kate Beckinsale thousands of dollars in damages for a story it ran about her.
NEW YORK, July 10 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices dropped to nearly $59 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Friday, as the economic recovery appears to have stalled.
In signs the fragile federation in Iraq may be cracking, Kurdish leaders are taking steps that could lead to a break with the larger county while sectarian and ethnic violence threatens Iraqi unity.
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