IBT Staff Reporter

Harold Camping, the head of the Family Radio who famously predicted May 21, 2011 as the Doomsday, will be proved either as a true prophet of God or another crazy Doomsday fanatic in less than 40 hours.

U.S. crude futures turned lower on Friday and Brent fell more than $1 amid pressure from the dollar's strength after it recovered from earlier losses and as the U.S. front-month June contract headed toward expiration at the session's end.

As May 21, 2011, looms over our heads, theories and predictions of doomsday circulate. But how do we know if it's time for our last supper?

Harold Camping, the head of the Family Radio who famously predicted May 21, 2011 as the Doomsday, will be proved either as a true prophet of God or another crazy Doomsday fanatic in less than 40 hours.

Stocks fell on Friday, as shares of large multinationals sensitive to the dollar fell in sync with the euro on the euro zone's debt problems and retailers lost ground after a weak profit outlook from Gap.

The motto for the 2010 San Francisco Giants certainly applied to Madison Bumgarner for the first part of the 2011 season, but the torture is over, as the San Francisco Giants starting pitcher showed championship form in getting his first win of the season.

American Home Mortgage Servicing, one of the largest servicers of subprime mortgages, is urging the U.S. Treasury to organize a plan to boost principal reductions for up to one million homeowners by unlocking loans from securities.

TMZ is reporting that 'Macho Man' Randy Savage has died in a car accident in Tampa, Florida.

The cost to hedge against a U.S. government debt default rose on Friday to its highest level since January ahead of the government's sales of $99 billion in securities next week.

The revelation of parking ticket perks for 'Gold Card Desk' members that surprised the public appears that it is not much of a revelation to City Controller Wendy Greuel

Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifanakis and Ken Jeong all walked the red carpet of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood for the premiere of The Hangover Park II.

Analysts are positive LinkedIn's high stock price will eventually correct itself.

Horseracing experts are beginning to make their predictions for the Preakness Stakes, scheduled for 6:16 p.m. tomorrow at Pimlico Race Course. Here are five picks and all the post positions and odds for the second leg of the Triple Crown.

Playboy will archive its 57 years of content in a new digital HTML5 subscription service called iPlayboy.

The gently sloping beaches of Normandy lend themselves well to invasions. From here, William the Conqueror set out to invade England in 1066 and in World War II they were the landing site for the allied assault on Nazi-occupied France.

Shares in commodities trading group Glencore fell below their issue price of 530 pence on Friday, the second day of conditional trading, as investors fretted over its valuation.

Stocks fell on Friday, led by energy and commodity-related shares as the market fell in tandem with the euro in a dance driven by the euro zone's debt problems.

Sony Corp is considering resuming its U.S.-based online games service on Tuesday, following a massive security breach last month, Kyodo news agency said on Friday.

FrontPoint Partners, a $4.5 billion hedge fund firm that became ensnared in a U.S. government insider trading probe last year, said it would shut down some of its portfolios.

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Citigroup Inc has hired Trip Wolfe to head venture capital coverage for North America within the bank's technology, media and telecoms group, according to an internal memo obtained by Reuters on Thursday.

Will it really happen? God's Judgment Day is virtually upon the world, according to Harold Camping, head of the Family Radio Christian ministry in Oakland, California.

A NYC-based tech company searches for the funds to buy Monroe's legendary white dress.

Following Wayne Rooney's twitter altercation with an abuser, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has suggested a ban on his players from using the micro-blogging website.

Oil fell sharply on Friday with U.S. light crude tumbling more than $2 toward $96 per barrel as the dollar rose and investors worried about the outlook for global growth and about the health of the euro zone.

Stocks fell on Friday as the euro zone's debt problems revived worries about the broader impact and the S&P 500 was below a key technical level.

Michael R. Long, chairman of the New York Conservative Party, is a deterrent to the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York.

Harold Camping's theory that May 21, 2011 is the Judgment Day is based more on calculations rather than divine revelation.

ARM Holdings says Intel is not a competitor in the mobile market.