A proposal for five-day service by the post office, which also wants to raise rates, faces hearings on July 12.

Sides Form Over Threat to Saturday Mail Service

Labor costs, a stronger currency and rising housing prices threaten to raise the cost of making electronics.

Supply Chain for iPhone Highlights Costs in China

At the University of Central Florida, a testing center uses cameras and computers to try to cut down on cheating.

To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery

As the United States seeks to end a four-decade Jewish settlement enterprise, the American Treasury helps sustain the settlements through tax breaks on donations to support them.

Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank

A makeshift orphanage and improvised family face an uncertain future as an eviction looms.

Haitian Orphans Have Little but One Another

Money that candidates initially reported as surpluses from their campaigns appears to have dribbled away.

New York Fights to Be Repaid by Candidates

The nation is bleeding jobs but many top orchestras find themselves with a large number of vacancies in their ranks.

Need a Job? Help Wanted at the N.Y. Philharmonic

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told President Obama he would take “concrete steps” on talks with the Palestinians.

U.S. and Israel Shift Attention to Peace Process

India’s drug industry is on track to grow 13 percent this year, to just over $24 billion in sales.

India Expands Role as Drug Producer

Rome is looking to contemporary architecture to propel its new identity, while many emblems of its past decay.

As Rome Modernizes, Its Past Quietly Crumbles

Nick Jonas takes his fan base with him to the West End of London, where he is appearing in “Les Misérables.”

Swoons Follow Nick Jonas, on and Off the London Stage

The temperature reached 102 degrees, breaking the record high for the day,  straining power supplies and testing New Yorkers’ resilience.

New York Wilts Under Record-Breaking Heat Wave

The contrasting aspects of Stephen Sondheim are embodied by two shows in the Berkshires that reflect different chapters in his life.

Sondheim Seen in Light and Shadow

A biography of the novelist William Golding, whose “Lord of the Flies” became a bible of tortured adolescence in America, has some lighter notes.

A Talent for Writing, and Falling Into Things

After a previous effort to go public was thwarted by the financial crisis, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company will command a market value of roughly $6 billion.

K.K.R. to Start Trading Publicly

For Helen Hunt, the Stage Manager role in “Our Town” isn’t about being male or female; it’s about bringing authority to the part.

‘Our Town’ Evolves, as a Former Emily Tries Management

Two rival museums, one from Taiwan and one from mainland China, are collaborating on a research project that has scholars retracing the journey of China’s imperial treasures in the 1930s and ’40s.

Rival Museums Retrace Route of China’s Imperial Treasures

A practice of having the sommelier taste the wine first doesn’t leave some restaurant customers happy.

When the First Sip Is the Sommelier’s, Not Yours

The Agricultural Bank of China offering may ultimately raise as much as $22 billion, which would make it the largest in history.

China Bank I.P.O. Raises $19 Billion

Direct stimulus aside, Congress could help the economy by persuading companies to spend and by lifting trade.

5 Ways Congress Can Bolster Growth

Okun’s Law establishes a relationship between growth and unemployment. How is it holding up in this economy?

Okun’s Law and Today’s Joblessness

The two main shareholders of Abertis Infraestructuras, an operator of highways, are in talks with the private equity fund CVC Capital Partners about a possible investment, according to a filing with regulators.

Private Equity Firm in Talks for an Investment in Spain

The Daiwa Securities Group, one of the largest brokerage firms in Japan, agreed to buy the KBC Group’s convertible bond and Asia equity derivatives  units for about $1 billion.

Daiwa Buys Units of Belgian Bank

Claude Picasso, above right, a son of Pablo Picasso, and Alexander Klee, left, the grandson of Paul Klee, have met for the first time, Agence France-Presse reported.  

Heirs Of Picasso and Klee Meet at Swiss Art Exhibition

Citing the high level of greenhouse gas emissions from aviation, Britain has canceled plans to build a third runway at busy Heathrow Airport.

Fighting Words

Harvey Fuqua was an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive.

July 6, 2010

Headlines from July 6, 2010

Sides Form Over Threat to Saturday Mail Service

Supply Chain for iPhone Highlights Costs in China

To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery

Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank

Haitian Orphans Have Little but One Another

Billboard 200

Thank Me Later

Mojo

Laws Of Illusion

NOW 34

To The Sea

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for July 6, 2010