IBT Staff Reporter

Microbes may be harnessed more easily to generate energy after a finding about how they naturally let off tiny electrical charges, scientists said on Monday.

A key measure of U.S. business activity rose in April and credit quality improved as the economy slowly gathered steam, a lender group said on Monday.

Individual investors are wading back into the market nearly three years after the financial crisis, but some U.S. brokerage executives said their customers remain cautious.

Harold Camping, who has been branded as a false Doomsday prophet after his May 21, 2011 End of the World prediction failed, is a good neighbor, a neighbor of the Family Radio president said.

People will be surprised with what they see, Ashley Hebert said to People magazine. She said that viewers will see her different sides through ABC's The Bachelorette premieres on Monday night.

Chrysler Group LLC is set to pay off its government loans on Tuesday, saving it more than $300 million a year in interest payments and allowing Fiat to raise its stake in the U.S. automaker to 46 percent, its CEO said.

Government negotiators plan to squeeze big banks for a larger settlement over mortgage servicing flaws when the two sides meet in Washington on Tuesday.

Apple's letter to Lodsys, asking that it cease threatening app developers with litigation.

The EF-4 category(second strongest classification) tornado that ripped across Joplin, Missouri yesterday Sunday May 22, claimed the lives of 116 people so far and has become the deadliest to hit US terrain since 1953 when another tornado struck Flint, Michigan where 116 were killed as well.

Harold camping was seen on video for the first time late Sunday after his failed prediction of a May 21 Doomsday on Saturday.

A British politician defied a court order on Monday by identifying Manchester United's Ryan Giggs as the soccer star fighting a legal battle to prevent newspapers from publishing allegations of an affair.

Russian Internet company Yandex on Monday raised the price guidance for its Nasdaq initial public offering, responding to strong investor demand after LinkedIn Corp's blowout debut last week.

One fringe group has gained national notoriety with their predictions that the end of the world will be this May 21, but just how did they arrive at that conclusion?

Aren't you at all curious about who's behind this lynching by media scam? This is an all-out, no-holds-barred, steel-cage, take-down. The big boys save that kind of action for the worst offenders, that is, for the insiders who have broken Omerta or wandered off the reservation. Even Bernie Madoff was allowed to stay in his $7 million Park Avenue penthouse.

Analysts say there will be little impact on iPad 2 production after the explosion at the Foxconn factory.

An Illinois man admitted in federal court on Monday to helping large online poker websites dodge U.S. gambling laws by processing millions of dollars in payments from his home in Costa Rica and lying to banks about the nature of the transactions.

Harold Egbert Camping was born July 19, 1921. He is a Christian radio broadcaster and president of California-based Family Radio, a religious broadcasting network that spans more than 150 outlets in the United States.

Japanese electronics products manufacturer Toshiba Corp <6502.T> said it will invest 700 billion yen ($8.57 billion) in environment and energy sectors over the next three years to meet demand from infrastructure projects, business daily Nikkei said.

Endeavour's heat shield is damaged but the space agency has cleared it for re-entry as it doesn't pose a major safety problem.

The rising cost of airfare and commercial interest in international travel has created a niche business opportunity for around the world ticket packages that promise the most travel for your money.

Kayla Staskiewicz was lucky enough to wear the $25,000 gown previously worn by Christina Ricci to her prom.

When service was finally restored to Sony Corp's PlayStation Network earlier this month, millions of customers rushed back to it, impatient to get back to battling friends in sports or shooter games.

All New York City public parks, beaches, board walks and pedestrian plazas are smoke-free as of today.

Increasing consumer anxiety that prices are broadly on the rise should not trigger an inflation-fighting response from the U.S. Federal Reserve, according to research Monday from the San Francisco Fed.

A small group of French activists have organized an Internet campaign to send roses to the woman who has accused former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her in New York.

U.S. banks are due to meet with state attorneys general and federal agencies on Tuesday as they seek to reach a settlement over problems in the mortgage servicing industry.

U.S. stocks closed at their lowest levels in a month on Monday in a sign of increasing doubt that equity markets can weather recent weakness in global manufacturing and demand.

Bank of America Corp has won tentative approval of a $410 million settlement of lawsuits accusing it of charging excessive overdraft fees to roughly 1 million customers.

Volkswagen AG may look to significantly expand its dealership base in the next three to four years, the chief executive of its America unit said in New York on Monday.