IBT Staff Reporter

It's the media's fault.

Animated film Puss in Boots held on to the domestic box office crown with a surprisingly strong second weekend performance that beat new Eddie Murphy comedy Tower Heist.

Controversial director Lars von Trier's apocalyptic drama Melancholia leads all films at the 2011 European Film Awards, where it will compete for the top prize with Michel Hazanavicius's black-and-white silent film The Artist, the Dardenne brothers' The Kid With a Bike, Aki Kaurismaki''s Le Havre and two past Oscar winners, Susanne Bier's Best Foreign-Language Film winner In a Better World and Tom Hooper's Best Picture champ The Ki...

BP's $7 billion deal to sell its stake in South America's Pan American Energy has collapsed because of legal issues, the would-be Chinese and Argentine buyers said on Sunday.

It may take a breakthrough treatment for Alzheimer's disease to match the $130 billion lifetime sales record of Pfizer's Lipitor, the cholesterol fighter that wrote its own chapter in pharmaceutical history.

After another week of confusion and turmoil in Europe, investors are ditching whatever hopes they once had for a conclusive solution to the debt crisis.

After another week of confusion and turmoil in Europe, investors are ditching whatever hopes they once had for a conclusive solution to the debt crisis.

United Airlines, the world's largest air carrier, will make the first U.S. commercial flight using an advanced biofuel on Monday, algae-based biofuel maker Solazyme Inc said.

Countries in the Eurozone will find it increasingly unattractive to stay in the single currency, if there is a German-led fiscal integration, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management said in a Sunday Telegraph interview.

Countries in the euro zone will find it increasingly unattractive to stay in the single currency, if there is a German-led fiscal integration, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management said in a Sunday Telegraph interview.

U.S. stock investors have had to take their own self-help course on living with uncertainty due to Europe's crisis, and they may need to draw on that this week because it's never clear when the next upheaval will come.

Financial aid to rescue Europe's debt-stricken countries is set to dominate talks between Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, and Russia's president, government and monetary officials during her visit to Moscow.

Even when not in the midst of a buzzing transfer window, Arsenal find themselves linked with a number of players from across the world of football.

The United States should be more open about its development of offensive cyber weapons and spell out when it will use them as it grapples with an increasing barrage of attacks by foreign hackers, the former No. 2 uniformed officer in the U.S. military said.

The United States should be more open about its development of offensive cyber weapons and spell out when it will use them as it grapples with an increasing barrage of attacks by foreign hackers, the former No. 2 uniformed officer in the U.S. military said.

Europe has a new informal leadership directorate intent on finding a solution to the euro zone's debt crisis, but it has yet to prove its ability to come up with a lasting formula.

Swiss private bank Julius Baer has raised its bid for unlisted Rabobank's stake in Swiss bank Sarasin and is now making an all cash offer, a newspaper reported on Sunday, citing sources close to the matter.

The heads of China's largest technology companies have endorsed Beijing's aim to intensify controls of online social media, pledging to stop the spread of harmful information on the Internet, state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday.

Manchester United marked Sir Alex Ferguson's 25th anniversary in charge with a 1-0 win over Sunderland at Old Trafford.

Arsenal continued their resurgence with a 3-0 thrashing of West Brom at the Emirates Stadium, as Robin van Persie was once again at the heart of everything good about the Gunners.

China is confident that Europe will be able to overcome its debt crisis, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said, adding stability in the Eurozone was crucial for the global economic recovery.

Some might argue that all Hollywood stars are overpaid, but Drew Barrymore and Eddie Murphy are in a league of their own, according to a survey conducted by Forbes.com and published on Thursday.

World number one Novak Djokovic was surprisingly beaten by unseeded Kei Nishikori of Japan in the semi-finals of the Basel Open on Saturday, suffering a new injury setback in the process.

Unexpected job losses pushed Canada's unemployment rate higher in October as the European debt crisis and U.S. weakness buffeted the exporting nation's economy and weakened confidence.

General Motors Co is recalling more than 38,000 Pontiac G8 models in order to reprogram airbag modules for the front passenger seats, the U.S. automaker said in a release on Saturday.

Germany on Saturday rejected media reports that Bundesbank reserves would be used to fund the euro zone's rescue facility after German newspapers said Group of 20 leaders had discussed the idea of tapping central banks.

Hilary Swank's publicity firm fired the actress after she made headlines for receiving money from Chechen autocrat Ramzan Kadyrov to attend his birthday party on Oct. 5, Entertainment Weekly reported Friday.

Sri Lanka ordered news websites Saturday to register with the Media Ministry, in what critics called a further step toward restricting media after the banning of an anti-government site last month.

Bank Transfer Day -- the protest movement urging Americans to take their business out of big banks on Saturday and put it into credit unions and local banks -- is being used as a marketing opportunity by some.