IBT Staff Reporter

Hope Solo, the 30-year-old Olympic soccer star, burst into tears after she was eliminated from Dancing With the Stars on Tuesday.

Consumer prices in Morocco fell year-on-year in October, their second drop this year, due mostly to cheaper food, official data showed on Friday.

Cameroon will raise spending 8.9 percent in 2012 in an effort to stimulate the economy of the oil-producing central African state, according to a draft budget due to be delivered to parliament on Friday.

Balanced budget amendment fails to pass house

The Dow and S&P 500 gauges rose on Friday as falling European sovereign debt yields eased investors' fears the region's debt crisis, helping to keep the S&P 500 above a key technical level.

A Kardashian boycott petition called No More Kardashian has garnered 133, 499 signatures as of Thursday afternoon, according to GoPetition.com. The preamble of the petition reads “We are respectfully requesting that your network [E!] find other shows to air. ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ is just not viewing that we the public, would like to see from your network. Enough is enough.”

A Kardashian boycott petition called No More Kardashian has garnered 133, 499 signatures as of Thursday afternoon, according to GoPetition.com. The preamble of the petition reads “We are respectfully requesting that your network [E!] find other shows to air. ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ is just not viewing that we the public, would like to see from your network. Enough is enough.”

Former FrontPoint Partners hedge fund manager Dr. Joseph Chip Skowron was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for his role in an insider trading scheme.

Amazon.com Inc almost breaks even on every Kindle Fire tablet it makes and sells, IHS iSuppli estimated on Friday, underscoring the aggressiveness with which it tried to rein in the cost of a device that spearheads its foray into the tablet market.

The Balanced Budget Amendment will see the floor of the House of Representatives today, the first step in what could be a long road to adding it to the Constitution.

The sweat lodge using self-help guru who has been found guilty of three counts of negligent homicide will learn his sentence today, according to the Associated Press.

Standard & Poor's plans to update its credit ratings for the world's 30 biggest banks within three weeks and may well mete out a few downgrades in the process, possibly surprising battered global bond markets.

Veteran talk show host Regis Philbin on Friday ended his run on the popular television program Live! with well-wishers including Mayor Michael Bloomberg stopping by to pay tribute to his nearly three decades on the daily show.

Over the past 15 years director-writer Alexander Payne has created a small but potent body of work that shows his talent for balancing comedy and drama including Sideways, which earned Payne a screenwriting Oscar, and About Schmidt.

Banks in London, already on high alert for how to deal with a break-up of the euro zone, will on Tuesday be tested to see how they would cope with a cyber attack on their operations.

European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi told euro zone governments on Friday to act fast to get their rescue fund up and running, expressing exasperation at their lack of progress in responding to the escalating debt crisis.

The leaders of Germany and Britain sent out conflicting signals on Friday about how to solve the euro zone's debt crisis and admitted they had failed to narrow differences over the introduction of a financial transaction tax in Europe.

On Thursday, Herman Cain became just the 12th presidential candidate in history to receive Secret Service protection during his campaign.

Amazon.com Inc may launch its own smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2012, Citigroup said, citing its supply-chain channel checks in Asia.

MF Global's administrator KPMG has told the failed futures broker's clients they will get back much-needed funds before it had finally settled all positions.

Fear over European banks' exposure to risky government debt stalked markets and harried bank executives on Friday, as unsecured lending between banks evaporated and the cost of secured loans rose.

James Capoot, 43, a Vallejo police officer, was shot to death, when he was chasing two bank robbery suspects on Thursday afternoon.

Canada Life Ireland, a unit of Canada's second-largest life insurer Great-West Lifeco (GWO.TO: Quote), is the lead candidate buy Irish Life & Permanent's (IPM.I: Quote) insurance arm, a source close to the matter said on Friday.

Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was arrested on Friday for electoral fraud, which carries a life sentence, at a Manila hospital, preventing her departure from the country to seek medical treatment.

Stocks were little changed on Friday, but easing European sovereign debt yields kept the S&P 500 above a key technical level.

Stocks were little changed on Friday, but easing European sovereign debt yields kept the S&P 500 above a key technical level.

The dollar firmed to a session high against the U.S. currency on Friday after data showed Canada's October inflation rate came in higher than forecast, curbing market bets on an interest rate cut.

Canada is looking to diversify the market for oil sands crude by courting buyers in Asia, and is not trying to punish the United States for delaying TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline to Texas, the country's natural resources minister said on Friday.

AT&T has the fastest data speed and web browsing for Apple's iPhone 4S, while Verizon has the best call performance and video quality.