IBT Staff Reporter

New claims for jobless aid rose unexpectedly last week and factory activity along much of the Eastern seaboard contracted early this month, bolstering the case for more action to support the struggling economy.

The childhood friend of a slain NBC executive has agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter in connection to what has been described as an accidental shooting death in March.

At the Toronto International Film Festival Wednesday, IFC Films acquired North American and Latin American rights to Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister.

Not since Frank Sinatra was featured in a commercial sending the casino owner off to fetch him some towels has Las Vegas hotelier Steve Wynn suffered such a public embarrassment.

Sales jumped 2.7 percent in the month to C$46.7 billion ($46.7 billion) following three straight months of declines and beating estimates of a 1.3 percent gain, Statistics Canada said on Thursday.

Is it too show-bizzy of us to be less excited about the revelations in Joe McGinnis's apparently hair-raising, 320-page Sarah Palin bio and more eager for a Tina Fey dramatization of it on SNL this fall?

Major central banks around the world will cooperate to offer three-month U.S. dollar loans to commercial banks in order to prevent money markets from freezing up in the wake of Europe's sovereign debt crisis.

Two people were killed and nine injured in an engine room fire on a Norwegian cruise ship Thursday morning.

Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt will continue paying his ex-wife $225,000 a month in spousal support, at least until the couple's divorce trial in November, under an agreement reached on Wednesday.

It's OK we are just on a flight simulator, yelled a man as he attempted to open the emergency door of a Thomson Airlines flight at 36,000ft in the air.

Fashion bloggers will help propel online sales of designer clothes, jewels and luxury cars to more than 11 billion euros ($15 billion) in 2015, a research report said on Thursday.

Google is taking on Kayak and Expedia in the newly launched Google Flight Search.

Stocks rose for a fourth straight session on Thursday after major central banks moved to boost European bank funding and regional leaders offered strong support for Greece, easing default fears.

America's Got Talent named its Season 6 champion, Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., a former car washer from West Virginia who was once homeless and almost gave up his dream as a talented singer.

The spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy were formed through two collisions with a nearby dwarf galaxy, a new study suggested.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will discuss with European finance ministers the possibility of leveraging the euro zone's bailout fund to make it more effective in fighting the debt crisis.

New claims for jobless benefits hit the highest level since late June last week and a gauge of New York state factory activity contracted in September, sustaining the view the Federal Reserve would take new action to boost growth.

Netflix shares took a hit after the company lowered subscriber expectations.

Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., a car washer from Logan, West Virginia who was once homeless, has finished his long journey to be crowned the most gifted in 'America's Got Talent' Wednesday night.

Stocks rose for a fourth straight session on Thursday after major central banks moved to boost European bank funding and regional leaders offered strong support for Greece, easing default fears.

Bank of America Corp's $8.5 billion proposed mortgage-backed securities settlement is now in the hands of a New York federal judge. But it could end up back before state court in a legal tug-of-war over who should decide whether the pact passes muster.

The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week in a sign concerns about a weak economy were sapping an already beleaguered labor market, data showed on Thursday.

The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week in a sign concerns about a weak economy were sapping an already beleaguered labor market, data showed on Thursday.

Myanmar lifted bans on prominent news websites on Thursday, including some run by critics of the army-dominated government, and unblocked online video portal YouTube, the latest signs of possible reforms in one of Asia's most reclusive states.

A multi-state outbreak of listeriosis, or Listeria bacteria, reportedly found in cantaloupe grown in southern Colorado, has infected 22 and killed two in seven states since Monday.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion plans to open doors for its key corporate customers using a decade-old technology most in the smartphone industry eye as a way to turn phones into wallets.

The United States needs to use fiscal as well as monetary policy to boost the economy if it wants to convince cash-rich corporations to start hiring and investing, Bob Doll, chief equity strategist of BlackRock Inc said on Thursday at the Bloomberg Markets 50 Summit.

The newly created yeast that includes synthetic DNA marks the first achievement in complex-celled organisms, and could potentially allow scientists to take control of genome in larger scale, leading to the manufacture of entirely synthetic organisms.

New jobless claims rose last week to their highest since June and a gauge of New York State manufacturing contracted in September, sustaining the view the Federal Reserve could take new action to boost growth.