WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers Friday that over-the-counter derivatives trading should be subject to strong regulatory oversight.
L'AQUILA, Italy, July 10 (UPI) -- France's first lady says her country will share with Italy the cost of repairing the historic Anime Santa church in L'Aquila damaged during April's earthquake.
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., July 10 (UPI) -- The Harajuku District in Tokyo topped a California-based travel Web site's list of the top five destinations for people watching.
JERUSALEM, July 10 (UPI) -- Israel's Chief of Staff Lt.Gen.Gabi Ashkenazi and Defense Minister Ehud Barak named Maj.Gen. Benny Gantz as the army's next deputy chief of staff.
L'AQUILA, Italy, July 10 (UPI) -- Group of Eight leaders meeting in Italy said Friday they would commit $20 billion to help the world's poorest countries in agricultural development.
GLASGOW, Scotland, July 10 (UPI) -- Police in the Scottish council area of Fife launched a pilot program Friday aimed at stemming the number of alcohol-related crimes, officials say.
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.