AP - An Air France memo to its pilots Friday about the crash of Flight 447 said the airline is replacing instruments that help measure airspeed on all its medium- and long-haul Airbus jets.

AP - General Motors Corp. has a tentative deal to sell its Saturn brand to auto racing magnate Roger Penske's dealership group, both companies said Friday.

AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown clung fiercely to his job Friday, defying calls from some within his beleaguered Labour party to resign.

AP - The body of American actor David Carradine, best known for the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu," was found in a hotel room closet with a rope tied to his neck and genitals, and his death may have been caused by accidental suffocation, Thai police said Friday.

AP - With companies in no mood to hire, the unemployment rate jumped to 9.4 percent in May, the highest in more than 25 years. But the pace of layoffs eased, with employers cutting 345,000 jobs, the fewest since September.

AP - President Barack Obama witnessed the Nazi ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday, its clock tower frozen at the time of liberation, and said the leaders of today must not rest against the spread of evil.

AFP - The mystery surrounding the crash of an Air France plane off the coast of Brazil deepened after Brazilian officials said items they had pulled from the sea were not in fact debris from the downed Airbus.

AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is reshuffling his cabinet on Friday as he battles to stay in his job after a minister quit and called on the beleaguered premier to resign.

Reuters - Miner Rio Tinto scrapped a planned $19.5 billion tie-up with China's Chinalco struck at the height of a global financial crisis, turning instead to an iron ore joint venture with rival BHP Billiton and a share sale to slash its debts.

Reuters - The United States has told South Korea it is preparing financial measures to punish North Korea for illicit weapons trade and counterfeit activities in the wake of its nuclear test last week, a newspaper report said on Friday.

Reuters - Brazilian search teams on Thursday scoured choppy Atlantic waters for remains of a crashed Air France jet after the first debris retrieved by helicopter turned out to be trash.

Reuters - A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday will hear arguments that Chrysler LLC's sale to a group including Italian carmaker Fiat SpA and the U.S. government violates long-standing bankruptcy law and should not be allowed to go forward.

Reuters - China smothered Tiananmen Square with police on Thursday to prevent commemoration of the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters 20 years ago and the United States demanded Beijing account for those killed.

Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was reshuffling his government Friday to try to pull it out of a crisis after a third senior minister quit and urged Brown to step aside.