IBT Staff Reporter

Casey Anthony, the young Florida mother acquitted of killing her child, wore a baseball hat and big sunglasses and refused to answer most questions during a video deposition on Saturday in a civil defamation case related to her daughter's 2008 death.

Starbucks Corp is finalizing an equity joint venture with India's Tata Coffee Ltd for opening coffee shops in Asia's third-largest economy, the Times of India reported on Monday.

Mikey Welsh, the former bass player for the alternative rock band Weezer, was found dead in a Chicago hotel, a police spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Paul McCartney married for the third time on Sunday, exchanging vows with American heiress Nancy Shevell at the same London register office where the former Beatle wed his first wife Linda in 1969.

Franco-Belgian bank Dexia agreed early on Monday to the nationalization of its Belgian banking division and secured state guarantees in a rescue that could pressure other euro zone governments to strengthen their banking sectors.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has called for safeguards to prevent France and other eurozone countries from distorting the EU's single market in an attempt to shift financial services from Britain to the single currency area, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

The Detroit Tigers have lost Magglio Ordonez for the remainder of the playoffs after the veteran outfielder re-injured his troublesome right ankle, the team said on Sunday.

Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine will be honored with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, the group announced on Sunday.

Roger Williams, known as the Pianist to the Presidents, died on Saturday at the age of 87 in his California home after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer, his former publicist said.

It's shocking, but movies are of secondary concern in Life Itself, film critic Roger Ebert's new memoir.

The Belgium government offered to buy Dexia's Belgian banking business for 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) and would provide the bulk of guarantees for the parent group's leftover assets, the Belgian prime minister said on Monday.

The Belgium government offered to buy Dexia's Belgian banking business for 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) and would provide the bulk of guarantees for the parent group's leftover assets, the Belgian prime minister said on Monday.

Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.

Zsa Zsa Gabor had surgery on Sunday to reattach a feeding tube to her stomach after being hospitalized in Los Angeles a day earlier, and the 94-year-old actress was doing well, a spokesman said.

Growing protests targeting Wall Street and U.S. economic inequality spawned heated rhetoric among politicians on Sunday as organizers planned more demonstrations this week.

American Eagle and its pilots union have hit an impasse in efforts to agree on a new contract before Eagle is spun off from AMR Corp , also the parent of American Airlines, Bloomberg reported on Sunday.

Global banking regulators will press ahead with the first worldwide effort to force banks to hold more liquid assets, the chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said in an interview with the Financial Times on Monday.

Canadian oil and gas explorer Daylight Energy Ltd said on Sunday it has agreed to be acquired by China's Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corp for about C$2.2 billion.

Franco-Belgian bank Dexia was set to be broken up and partly nationalised after being slammed by a funding squeeze in the latest warning sign about the health of Europe's struggling lenders.

For the last few years, a widely circulated joke about Jerry Yang was that he had the best tan in Silicon Valley from all the time he spent on Stanford University's golf course.

Elevated audit fees can be a red flag of problems to come for a company, say three recent academic studies that together warn about increased chances of fraud, stock price declines or financial restatements.

Nineteen people were killed in Cairo on Sunday when Christians, some carrying crosses and pictures of Jesus, clashed with military police, medical and security sources said, in the latest sectarian flare-up in a country in political turmoil.

Actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor remained hospitalized in Los Angeles on Sunday and was doing a little better, but stomach surgery to reattach a feeding tube was delayed as she continues to run a high fever, her husband said Sunday.

Top French banks BNP Paribas and Societe Generale denied a report that they could seek to raise a combined 11 billion euros ($14.8 billion) as part of a broader European bank recapitalization plan.

Foster children who statistically face a greater risk of identity theft than adults or other children may be protected from having their identities stolen or exploited, under a new law, proposed by a Rhode Island congressman.

France, Belgium and Luxembourg agreed to a rescue plan for Dexia SA on Sunday ahead of a planned board meeting expected to decide on a break-up of the first lender to fall victim to the euro zone crisis.

Investors tiring of the euro zone's debt crisis dragging the market all over the place are hoping to focus on something else this week -- earnings.

The leaders of Germany and France promised Sunday to unveil a new comprehensive package for solving the euro zone's debt crisis by the end of the month, but offered no details and papered over differences on how to shore up European banks.

General Motors Co said it was recalling about 6,000 Chevrolet Corvette Coupes over a concern they may fail to meet a federal safety standard covering rear hinges.