IBT Staff Reporter

The ongoing film shooting happening in Pittsburgh have provided plenty of onset photos leaking online such as Batman's epic fist fight with Bane for The Dark Knight Rises. Other photos reveal an on screen beauty, Marion Cotillard, walking around in full costume.

A U.S. Airways Boeing 757 which had arrived from Glasgow, Scotland, was evacuated on Friday at Philadelphia International Airport because of a threatening note.

The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world's largest economy.

Do you eat snacks habitually at night without being hungry and without giving it a second thought?

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has lowered the long-term U.S. credit rating to AA+ from AAA, saying that in its opinion, a recently passed deficit cutting plan by the U.S. government fell short of the goal of stabilizing the government's medium-term debt dynamics.

Groupon Inc, which more than doubled subscribers this year to 115 million, plans to abandon the use of a controversial financial measure it once touted as a good indicator of performance, two sources with knowledge of the situation said.

The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Friday in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world's largest economy.

Groupon Inc subscribers have more than doubled to 115 million so far this year, a source with knowledge of the situation told Reuters, a positive sign for the daily deal site's much-anticipated 2011 IPO.

Self-proclaimed "Spam King" Sanford Wallace of Las Vegas pleaded not guilty in federal court on Thursday, according to a report.

Stocks closed out their worst week in more than two years on Friday in a volatile session that saw the major indexes whip back and forth before the S&P 500 settled with a slim loss.

The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Friday in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world's largest economy.

Hewlett Packard has decided to significantly cut its TouchPad tablet that launched just a month ago.

Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth will not be joining News Corp's board as had been planned, after criticism that the board was populated by corporate and family insiders.

Sanford Wallace, known as the Spam King, has turned himself in to U.S. authorities after he was indicted for masterminding a scheme that sent more than 27 million unsolicited junk messages through Facebook's servers.

South American nations said on Friday they are well-positioned to withstand a sharper global downturn but want to insulate their economies further from a crisis of confidence they blame on Europe and the United States.

Two energy blasts from the sun are causing "tsunamis in space."

Facebook has one up on Apple in the recent polls, unfortunately the competitive category is less than flattering. According to the latest issue of GQ magazine, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named the worst dressed among a group of 15 other Silicon Valley CEOs. Coming in second was Apple's Steve Jobs. The ranking is among the various publications listed by magazines such as GQ, Vanity Fair, and Esquire.

Citigroup Inc said in a regulatory filing on Friday that the Justice Department is examining its mortgage business.

Intel's first cyber-security product co-developed with its McAfee unit will take advantage of features already built into its processors and will likely be available as an extra service to customers.

Apple Inc has won a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against several retail stores in the Chinatown section of Queens, New York, that sell cases and other accessories for Apple products, including the iPhone, iPod and iPad.

U.S. consumer credit shot up in June by $15.53 billion, according to a Federal Reserve report on Friday that showed consumers were willing to keep borrowing robustly in a tight job market.

The U.S. government expects its debt to be downgraded by credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's from its current triple-A rating and is preparing for the event, ABC News said on Friday.

A South Korean SBS TV documentary team accuses Chinese pharmaceutical companies of selling dead baby pills as stamina boosters. The team reveals that the truth behind the dead baby pill is horrific and disturbing.

Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc reported a larger second-quarter profit on Friday, as favorable investment results and strength in the rail and manufacturing businesses offset another underwriting loss in insurance.

Stocks closed out their worst week in more than two years on Friday in a volatile session that saw the major indexes whip back and forth before the S&P 500 ended down less than a point.

A day after New York's attorney general called Bank of America Corp's $8.5 billion mortgage-backed securities settlement unfair and inadequate, another state attorney general hinted he may also oppose the deal.

Hewlett-Packard Co is offering a hefty discount on its TouchPad tablet a month after it launched the WebOS-based mobile device in a booming market dominated by Apple Inc's iPad.

Groupon Inc said on Friday that it is cutting some underperforming staff at its Chinese joint venture Gaopeng.

Obese men with diabetes 2 can enhance erectile function and decrease urinary tract symptoms along with increased sexual desire by losing weight, a new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine shows.