Police union officials on Friday rallied around the white officer whose arrest of a prominent black scholar sparked a heated debate on race relations in the United States.
The Investigative Commission On Crime Against Humanity claimed recently that it was seeking ways to file a suit against North Korean leader Kim Jong II to the International Crime Court (ICC) over alleged crimes against humanity, according to the Associated Press report.
The White House said Friday President Barack Obama regrets the controversy his comments about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. have caused in the media.
CIT Group Inc amended its debt restructuring plan on Friday to encourage more bondholders to tender their notes early, and said it intended to keep restructuring out-of-court if the offer succeeded.
Stocks fell on Friday, pressured by disappointing quarterly results in the tech sector and weak consumer sentiment data.
Vitamin Shoppe's parent company has filed to raise as much as $143.8 million in an initial public offering.
Citigroup Inc said it has appointed three new directors and installed a new chief to oversee its retail banking unit, addressing criticism that it lacks enough leaders with commercial banking experience.
Twitter plans a marketing campaign starting in the next few days to educate users, individual and corporate, about ways to make money off the popular microblogging site.
Oil rose on Friday on optimism a turnaround in the global economy would lift battered fuel demand.
Consumer sentiment down, Microsoft slides, Amazon dips
Italian automaker Fiat won unconditional approval from the European Commission on Friday to acquire bankrupt U.S. automaker Chrysler CBS.UL as the EU executive said the deal would not hurt competition.
U.S. consumer confidence waned in late July to its lowest ebb since April on growing pessimism about the long-term economic outlook, especially about income and jobs, a survey showed on Friday, even as some economists reckon the longest recession in decades may be easing.
Warren Buffett said he has no plans to soon exercise Berkshire Hathaway Inc's warrants to buy $5 billion of Goldman Sachs Group Inc stock, although he could make a big profit by doing so.
Amazon's chief executive officer Jeff Bezos posted an apology message to customers over last week's remote-deletion of illegally sold books.
Stocks fell on Friday as bellwether Microsoft declined on disappointing results, a day after a rally took the Dow industrials above the key 9,000 mark.
Exelon Corporation, the largest operator of nuclear power plants in the U.S., reported on Friday that its earnings declined 12 percent in the second quarter due to a low demand for electricity and more expensive nuclear fuel.
U.S. consumer confidence waned in late July to the lowest reading since April on growing pessimism about the long-term economic outlook, a survey showed on Friday, even as some economists reckon the longest recession in decades may be easing.
Senior U.S. financial regulators defended their turf in remarks to be delivered on Friday at a congressional hearing on the Obama administration's sweeping regulatory reform agenda.
U.S. stocks fell on Friday as bellwethers Microsoft and American Express declined on disappointing results, a day after a rally took the Dow industrials above the key 9,000 mark.
The number of new offshore oil and gas exploration wells will shrink by about 15 percent in 2009, as lower crude prices curb investments and hit smaller oil and gas producers, according to data from Derrick Petroleum Services.
The United States plans to transfer $200 million to the struggling Palestinian Authority to help cover its budget crisis, an Obama administration official said on Friday.
