OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. telecommunications giant Sprint Nextel said it would transfer management of its network operations to Sweden's Ericsson to cut costs.
BRUSSELS, July 10 (UPI) -- Customs officers seized 178 million counterfeit items last year that were headed for the 27 nations in the European Union, EU officials say.
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 into 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.