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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WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, the top U.S. fighter jet, has been experiencing major maintenance shortcomings, confidential Pentagon test results indicate.
NEW YORK, July 10 (UPI) -- General Motors Corp. completed its race through bankruptcy Friday morning, signing a contract with the U.S. government, a source close to the deal said.
L'AQUILA, Italy, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S., French and Russian leaders Friday called on Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to resolve a long-running dispute in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
LOS ANGELES, July 10 (UPI) -- Michael Jackson's cousin said the late U.S. pop star's casket was open during a private family viewing near Los Angeles this week.
The U.S. Treasury chastised some of the nation's banks while admitting a program to help borrowers stay in their homes is progressing at a snail's pace.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. public, by a slim margin, would like the Senate to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, results of a CNN poll indicate.
NEW YORK, July 10 (UPI) -- Nickelodeon says it is not in discussions to buy the Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans, contrary to reports claiming it is.