IBT Staff Reporter

Some of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers feasted on Friday on the demise of one of their own -- Britain's News of the World -- serving up headlines such as World's End and Hacked To Death.

Tropical Storm Calvin grew stronger during the day on Friday, July 8, and by early afternoon he was on the verge of hurricane-strength. The TRMM satellite provided a look under the hood of the storm and noticed the heavy rainfall at the center of its heat engine.

China and the Philippines have come to an agreement over the South China Sea dispute.

Betty Ford, the widow of President Gerald Ford, died Friday night at the age of 93, said the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. Ford founded an addiction center in California after she struggled for years with relentless addictions to painkillers and alcohol

The initial public offering of Toys R Us, the world's largest toy retailer, is now expected in 2012, two sources told Reuters.

Commener-cum-duchess Kate Middleton is showing more of her common roots with some of her style choices.

J&J was sued by a company called Oral Cancer Prevention International that claimed the drug major interfered with a sales agreement related to the distribution of an oral cancer prevention product to protect sales of its popular mouthwash, Listerine, according to court documents.

U.S. authorities closed three banks on Friday, bringing the total number of foreclosures in 2011 to 51.

U.S. authorities closed three banks on Friday, bringing the total number of foreclosures in 2011 to 51.

Josh Hamilton spoke to the media today about the tragic death of the 39 Rangers fan that lost his life while trying to catch a foul ball July 5. The death was witnessed by his 6-year-old son Cooper.

Authorities closed three banks on Friday, bringing the total number of foreclosures in 2011 to 51.

According to a recent release by the Kinsey Institute, men just want to cuddle and woman have sex on the brain.

Betty Ford, the widow of late President Gerald Ford and a trailblazing co-founder of an addiction center in California that bears her name, has died at the age of 93, according to the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

Emma Watson is not engaged although she was spotted wearing a diamond engagement ring on the red carpet at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Police arrested David Cameron's former spokesman on Friday over the scandal that has shut down Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, forcing the prime minister to defend his judgment while promising new controls on the British press.

Wall Street heads into earnings season next week playing a typical game: Worrying about results a lot, and then rallying on pleasant surprises.

IBTimes World correspondent Michael Martin talked to Mosa'ab El-Shamy, renowned blogger and democracy activist. El-Shamy was not only present at today's protest, but was arrested and tried at an Egyptian military court after participating in a May 15 protest to commemorate the 1948 loss of Palestine to Israeli forces.

The accounting board for U.S. state and local governments is set to propose on Friday radical reforms to the disclosure practices of public pension systems.

Casey Anthony, the young woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter using chloroform and duct tape has prompted lawmakers to push for Caylee's Law, which will make it a felony to let a missing child under the age of 12 go unreported after 48 hours. It will also make it a felony not to report a child's death or the location of a child's corpse to police without two hours of the child's demise.

NBC's America's Got Talent topped the ratings on Wednesday night despite a marked drop from last week, according to preliminary numbers.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost a financial lifeline. Since December, bans by the world's major credit card networks, it has been difficult for supporters of the controversial whistleblower to send him donations. But this week, WikiLeaks gained a brief respite with the unwitting help of an Icelandic bank.

Biomedical Gerontologist and Chief Scientist of Strategies for the Engineered Negligible Senescence Foundation said that scientists have nearly all of the necessary tools to cure aging, Reuters reported on July 4.

Economists at top financial institutions expect the U.S. unemployment rate to fall in 2011 and 2012 despite a surprisingly weak jobs report on Friday, a Reuters poll found on Friday.

BP Plc wants to limit future claims related to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster as the region's economy recovers, the oil company said in a document made public on Friday.

Police arrested David Cameron's former spokesman on Friday over the scandal that has shut down Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, forcing the prime minister to defend his judgment while promising new controls on the British press.

LivingSocial has picked Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank to lead-underwrite an IPO that could value the daily deals site at $10 billion to $15 billion, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Call it a lost two years, and counting.The economic malaise afflicting industrialized economies on both sides of the Atlantic isn't as long-lived as Japan's lost decade yet. But as a distressingly weak June jobs report made clear on Friday, two years after a deep recession ended, central bankers have yet to engineer convincing recoveries.

Zynga Inc, the top social games publisher on Facebook, is buying a Toronto-based mobile applications developer, in a move that could help it expand beyond the social network.

Forest Laboratories Inc chief Howard Solomon will likely have to cede some control over the drugmaker he has stewarded for over three decades to resolve a showdown with billionaire Carl Icahn.