PARIS, July 6 (UPI) -- Proba-2, one of the smallest satellites the European Space Agency has built, is being readied for shipment to the Plesetsk spaceport in Russia.
LA GRANDE-MOTTE, France, July 6 (UPI) -- Mark Cavendish won his second consecutive Tour de France stage Monday, holding off a late rush.
LOS ANGELES, July 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., says the media should limit its coverage of Michael Jackson as the late singer was a "child molester."
BARRIE, Ontario, July 6 (UPI) -- Police in Barrie, Ontario, say two officers are in stable condition after being stabbed by a man who was fatally shot by one of them.
COLUMBIA, S.C., July 6 (UPI) -- South Carolina Republican Party members say they are set to discuss how they should respond to Gov. Mark Sanford's infidelity scandal.
MONROVIA, Calif., July 6 (UPI) -- The ability for a tiny man-made vehicle to fly through the flapping of wings while carrying its own energy source has been achieved, the company responsible said.
LIVERPOOL, England, July 6 (UPI) -- A search was under way in Liverpool, England, for possible survivors of a crane collapse onto an apartment block Monday, authorities say.
DAWSON CREEK, British Columbia, July 6 (UPI) -- A series of bombings of natural gas pipelines in northeastern British Columbia in Canada are "domestic terrorism," authorities said.
OSAKA, Japan, July 6 (UPI) -- Four people were killed and at least 19 others were hurt as a result of a fire that erupted at a gaming site in Osaka, Japan, police say.
JERUSALEM, July 6 (UPI) -- The father of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit implored a United Nations panel examining alleged Israeli war crimes to act to secure his son's release.
ADELAIDE, Australia, July 6 (UPI) -- Australian and New Zealand scientists say they have completed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the giant extinct moa bird.
YANGON, Myanmar, July 6 (UPI) -- A "deeply disappointed" U.N. secretary-general left Myanmar saying the military rulers had "lost a unique opportunity" to show they were serious about democracy and elections in 2010.
TEMPE, Ariz., July 6 (UPI) -- U.S. business activity in the non-manufacturing sector contracted in June, but the rate of decline has slowed, a research group said Monday.
PARIS, July 6 (UPI) -- This week's G8 summit will see a clash over the dollar and over carbon emissions with the emergent economies of the G20, suggesting that the divergent interests of the two groups will make a G20 consensus hard to achieve.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., July 6 (UPI) -- Andy Roddick said he was injured during the Wimbledon final and has withdrawn from this week's U.S. Davis Cup matches against Croatia.
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CHICAGO, July 6 (UPI) -- The Ricketts family and the Tribune Co. finalized a deal for the sale of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Stadium, a source familiar with the talks said Monday.
ROME, July 6 (UPI) -- Several European publications intend to publish bawdy photos of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during the G8 summit in L'Aquila, sources said.
NARA, Japan, July 6 (UPI) -- Shards of an Islamic vase thought to date to the eighth century have been unearthed in Nara, Japan, municipal researchers say.
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