IBT Staff Reporter

New claims for unemployment benefits rose less than expected last week, according to a government report on Thursday that hinted at an improvement in labor market conditions.

Iowa health officials told reporters Wednesday that a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage after contracting listeriosis, a rare yet serious food-borne illness that arose in early September.

The European Central Bank reinstated some of its most potent crisis-fighting tools on Thursday in response to intensifying euro zone troubles, but opted to keep interest rates at 1.5 percent despite some of the bank's policymakers calling for cuts.

Boeing Co on Thursday said it delivered 127 commercial airplanes in the third quarter including 100 of its best-selling 737 narrowbodies and 21 widebody 777s.

A prominent dispute resolution expert has been picked to sort out any problems over evidence in the Obama administration's antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T Inc's purchase of wireless rival T-Mobile USA.

Technology and design admirers flocked to Apple stores worldwide on Thursday to express their sorrow at the death of Steve Jobs, the visionary who transformed the daily lives of millions.

Brisk back-to-school shopping benefited many retailers in September, with sales at stores open at least a year up more than expected at chains from Kohl's Corp to Nordstrom Inc.

TSA is piloting many new programs, including expedited security and behavior-recognition programs.

The Bank of England will spend 75 billion pounds more of newly-created money to shield Britain's economy from the euro zone debt crisis and keep a faltering recovery going, opting for an early, dramatic move to maximize the impact.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty voiced cautious optimism on Wednesday that Canada would be granted an exemption from an onerous U.S. tax reporting law that he called an inefficient use of capital.

After keeping his cool for almost eight years, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet exploded last month.

The Canadian dollar weakened sharply against its U.S. counterpart in early trade on Thursday after the European Central Bank held interest rates unchanged, dashing hopes it might cut rates to stimulate growth.

A video uploaded to YouTube on Thursday shows a New York police officer laughing about beating Occupy Wall Street protesters with his baton.

Twelve years after German Chancellor Helmut Kohl pushed through the monetary union over the objections of a majority of his country's citizens, the bloc is crumbling under the burden of huge debts. And the one institution that Germans were told would ensure stability, the ECB, is in deep crisis itself. In the absence of decisive action from Europe's leaders, the bank has come under enormous pressure to fill the gap.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing, music and mobile phones, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

Outpourings of public grief and appreciation swept the globe on Thursday after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

U.S. aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin said on Thursday it will offer final assembly of the F-35 fighter to Japanese firms in a bid for a defense contract from Tokyo.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 56, deemed irreplaceable by millions of fans of the operating system, died on Wednesday due to his long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, beginning in 2004, when he underwent transplant surgery for it.

President Barack Obama was among the many people who paid tribute to Steve Jobs, calling the Apple co-founder a visionary and great American innovator.

A Hong Kong design student's poignant tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs became an internet hit Thursday with its minimalist, touching symbolism and brought a job offer and a flood of commemorative merchandise using his design.

Who was Steve Jobs? He was the visionary co-founder of Apple, the instigator of the iRevolution, the man who changed the way the world interacts with technology -- but he was also a husband, a father and a son.

The Bank of England has launched a second round of quantitative easing to defend Britain's faltering economy against the euro zone debt crisis, pledging to buy 75 billion pounds ($114.8 billion) of assets with new money in a dramatic move to stave off recession.

Oops. We'll say it - We, like many other tech sites, may have jumped the gun on our story that the Facebook iPad app would be released on Tuesday at Apple's Let's Talk iPhone event. Unfortunately, the big day has come and gone and still the app was not to be found.

A leaked photo indicates the next Mass Effect will be getting multiplayer functionality.

With the official news of Apple's release of iPhone 4S sinking in, next Tuesday marks Samsung and Google's Unpacked press conference on their latest smartphones. Executives at Google are hinting at the anticipated Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android, but its arrival has yet to be disclosed.

As of today, for as little as $35 you can own a tablet computer—thanks to India. This is huge in the economy of development technologies, but is it enough to close the digital divide?

What the Apple Let's talk iPhone press conference had to offer gamers.

The arena floor of the tech marketplace is littered with the casualties of the ongoing tablet price wars, some of whom are merely bloodied while others, like the HP TouchPad, are down for the count. Despite the recent pricing capitulations of HTC and BlackBerry, who both lowered prices on their tablets - the Flyer and the Playbook, respectively - by as much as $200 apiece, some makers are resisting pressure to drop their prices.