NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes opened slightly lower Wednesday, as the trade deficit was wider than expected, analysts said.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Sudan and Chad's decision to normalize relations could end up having a positive effect on the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, an observer says.
CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A Canadian teenager has been banned from using the Internet after pleading guilty to posting a school shooting threat on Prince Edward Island.
LONDON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The British economy will take longer to recover and inflation should peak at 3.5 percent early in 2010, Bank of England officials said Wednesday.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn, considered the favorite in several women's alpine events, said she was dealing with a shin injury ahead of the Winter Olympics.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The youngest detainee at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison is at the center of an international debate over whether he should be prosecuted or rehabilitated.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A report on the future on the Anglican Church in Canada says declining membership could make it extinct by 2061.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army needs hundreds of additional substance-abuse counselors to meet the increasing number of soldiers seeking alcohol treatment, a top official says.
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Public employees in 72 Greek cities and towns were off their jobs Wednesday, on strike to protest plans for reducing the country's double-digit deficit.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says some Powerheart-, CardioLife- and CardioVive-brand automatic external defibrillators are being recalled.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The death toll of last month's earthquake in Haiti was set at 230,000 but there are many more bodies that are yet to be recovered and counted.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Heavy snowfall from the U.S. Midwest across the Northeast snarled traffic, forced schools to close for at least a week and has shut the federal government.
BERLIN, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- China has become the world's biggest exporter, passing Germany, statistics released this week confirmed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama threatened Tehran with "significant" sanctions regarding Iran's nuclear program.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Sweden will send 30 additional soldiers to Afghanistan next week, Swedish Armed Forces said.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Republicans have closed the gap with Democrats on whom Americans trust to handle the country's problems, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated.
TORONTO, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Organized smuggling rings have begun sneaking Haitians into Canada, a Haitian-Canadian lawyer in Toronto says.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- For more than 60 years the U.S.-Pakistani relationship has veered between despair and euphoria. In a very social sense, the two states could be characterized as an aging married couple occupying very distant parts of a large, deteriorating house whose plumbing, electrics and phone systems are in disrepair and who are at a loss on how to interact to fix both their relationship and their living conditions. In essence, something between a marriage counselor and a plumber is sorely needed to improve this complex relationship.
KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Supporters of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are seeking a recount of the ballots cast in Sunday's presidential runoff election, a lawmaker says.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Crude oil futures began the trading day in New York slightly down Wednesday, as did heating oil prices.