UPI almanac for Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. economist Edmund Phelps has been chosen to receive the 2006 Nobel Prize in economics for research on the relationship between employment and inflation.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 11 (UPI) -- Director and author Vilgot Sjoman, who had an international hit with his provocative "I Am Curious (Yellow)," has died in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 81.

Today is Friday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2005 with 71 to follow.

The weekly UPI Almanac package for Oct. 17-23, 2005.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Game-theory experts in Israel and the United States were selected to share the 2005 prize for economics awarded by a Nobel-affiliated committee in Sweden.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Three scientists -- two from the United States and one from Germany -- were selected as winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in optics.

SYDNEY, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Two big Australian companies are teaming to pay $1.7 billion for Norway's Dyno Nobel, an explosives company.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A play written by Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel will debut in his native Sweden the same day this year's prizes are awarded, it was announced Thursday.