LOS ANGELES, July 10 (UPI) -- Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton says detectives are still interviewing the late Michael Jackson's former doctors about his prescription drug use.
KIEV, Ukraine, July 10 (UPI) -- Ukraine's gross domestic product for 2009 is expected to decline 14 percent, a big drop from an original forecast of 8 percent, a global banking official said.
OTTAWA, July 10 (UPI) -- Senior nuclear medicine doctors in Canada say the federal government is dropping the ball as a major global supplier of radioactive medical isotopes.
LOS ANGELES, July 10 (UPI) -- Tremors deep within the San Andreas Fault suggest California should not become complacent about future earthquakes, a leading seismologist said.
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.