IBT Staff Reporter

Bay Area's Levi Leipheimer is one of the early favorites to win this year's Amgen Tour of California. The Santa Rosa resident, born in Butte, Montana, will be contending against stiff international competition in order win the premier cycling event.

Before the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Pippa Middleton was known mostly as Kate's sister.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a possible French presidential candidate, was hauled off the Air France flight about 10 minutes before it was to take off at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday afternoon and turned over to police for questioning in connection with an alleged sexual assault.

The family of Derek Boogaard, a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played for the Minnesota Wild, decided to donate his brain to Boston University researchers to study brain disease in athletes.

Sony Corp. executive Kazuo Hirai announced on Saturday that the PlayStation Network's PS3 and PS online gameplay services are back online around the world although the PlayStation store will come back online at a later date.

Sony said it had begun restoration of its PlayStation Network games service on Sunday, almost a month after a massive security breach of the network forced the company to shut it down.

It has been confirmed that Ashton Kutcher has been tapped to replace Charlie Sheen in the popular television comedy 'Two and a Half Men' but what does it mean for the audience - cheers or jeers?

On a rainy, windy, muddy day in Chicago, the San Francisco Giants played through the elements to beat the Cubs 3-0 in a weather-shortened game called by the umpires after six innings.

Sony said it would begin a phased restoration of its PlayStation Network games service Sunday on a country by country basis and expected the process to be complete by May 31.

Tom Sizemore's friend Megan Wren has been found after being missing for more than a month.

Sony said it would begin a phased restoration of its PlayStation Network games service on Sunday on a country by country basis and expected the process to be complete by May 31.

Back office fraud is draining corporate treasuries of billions of dollars a year, and the risk is growing as companies and employees struggle in the wake of the recession, finance managers and experts say.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, was arrested in New York City on Saturday, accused of a brutal sexual attack on a hotel employee in Manhattan, according to reports citing police sources.

The 'Mighty' Mississippi river has risen steeply - in some places to record levels - as a result of higher than usual rains, flooding various areas along its winding trajectory cutting across the central U.S.

Its easy to drive over the speed-limit, but now the city New York is taking some creative measures to get drivers to slow down.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more firearm homicides were completed by 10 to 19 year old Americans in metropolitan areas than all other areas in 2006-2007 their recent Morbidity and Morality Weekly report.

Canada's TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, has received a takeover proposal from a group of Canadian banks and pension funds that could trump a friendly $3 billion bid from the London Stock Exchange.

BP will struggle to meet a Monday deadline to complete its $16 billion share swap with Russian group Rosneft , leaving the companies to agree a second extension or allow the deal to fall apart.

The former No.1 Maria Sharapova has beaten the current World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki 7-5, 6-3 at the Rome Masters.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick recently had minor surgery on his left leg, an early setback for Kaepernick, who was drafted in the second round, to be the quarterback of the future for the franchise.

ABC announced that they are canceling Brothers and Sisters. Last week, there were reports that the Emmy-winning drama may return for a sixth season.

The Mississippi river, which is the largest system of rivers in North America, is displaying why it is nicknamed the Mighty Mississippi as flooding along its banks is forcing residents out and triggering flood relief systems installed decades ago to diminish, if not fully control, its impact.

New research details how studying the moon's surface can give an explanation as to how it was formed.

Officials will open the flood gates of the Morganza Spillway at one sparsely populated part of Louisiana to protect the bigger cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans to the South.

Singer Etta James, 73 year-old, has been hospitalized for a urinary tract infection that led to sepsis early this week.

Manchester United achieved a record 19th English league title on Saturday when Manchester United got a 1-1 draw against Blackburn.

Canada's largest stock exchange operator TMX Group said on Saturday it had received a takeover offer from a group of Canadian banks and pension funds that rivals a $3 billion London Stock Exchange bid.

President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would seek to expand U.S. oil production by opening up areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

Derek Boogaard, a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played for the Minnesota Wild, was found dead on Friday in the Minnesota apartment he was living in.