IBT Staff Reporter

Wearing neon colors, dancing and flashing I vote signs for video cameras, students in Canada's capital on Monday joined a growing movement of youth vote mobs aimed at shaking up the May 2 national election.

Samsung Electronics Co said on Tuesday it had agreed to sell its hard-disk-drive business to Seagate Technology for $1.4 billion in cash and stock, as it plans to focus on its bread-and-butter memory-chip business.

Roche Holding AG's rheumatoid arthritis drug Actemra received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat a rare type of arthritis in children.

Cambridge University has beaten Oxford to the top spot for the first time since 2007 in the reputed annual Complete University Guide (CUG) rankings for 2012.

Photos of the winning moments at the 2011 Boston Marathon.

Asian stocks slid on Tuesday, falling further from a three-year high hit last week as investors took profits on risks of a Greek debt restructuring in Europe and the long-term threat of a U.S. government debt downgrade.

Booming smartphone demand and cost cuts kept cellphone venture Sony Ericsson in the black in the first quarter, despite the drag of supply disruption from Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.1 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.1 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.1 percent at 0733 GMT.

NASA Saturday released some spectacular never-seen-before space images from its infrared explorer. Here are few more from the WISE gallery.

Booming smartphone demand kept cellphone venture Sony Ericsson in the black in the first quarter, despite supply disruption following Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

The Treasury could sell a big chunk of its remaining 33 percent stake in General Motors Co in the summer or fall, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Monday, although doing so may lead to more losses for it on the automaker's bailout.

Toshiba Corp said it likely fell short of its operating profit forecast for the past business year by 4 percent, citing the effects of the March 11 quake and tsunami, which affected operations at some of its plants.

Spontaneous activity on the Internet is on the wane among experienced users as they shun aimless surfing and plan their online sessions more, according to a study published by Microsoft and two agencies.

Samsung's Galaxy S 4G, Nexus S, Epic 4G, and Galaxy Tab are all cited in the suit.

Asian stocks fell on Tuesday after rating agency Standard & Poor's lowered its U.S. credit outlook to negative, prompting a global flight to other assets.

Toshiba Corp is likely to post a forecast-beating 130 billion yen ($1.6 billion ) net profit for the 2010/11 business year that ended on March 31, boosted by robust sales of flash memory chips for smartphones and tablet PCs, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Apple Inc may provide the first signs this week that the Japanese crisis is pressuring margins, clouding what should otherwise be another dazzling second quarter for the makers of the iPad and iPhone.

Japanese cabinet ministers on Tuesday moved to shore up confidence in U.S. debt after Standard & Poor's threatened to lower its credit rating on the world's largest economy due to a bulging budget deficit, touching a nerve with one of the largest holders of Treasuries.

Three dozen Crips street gang members and two motel owners have been indicted for running a prostitution ring that targeted underage girls through social networking sites including MySpace, Craigslist, Twitter and Facebook, prosecutors said on Monday.

Price cuts from multiple vendors may signal that a successor to the Wii is around the corner.

Novartis AG is likely to be the latest drugmaker to show it too has been hit by a collapse in sales of pandemic flu medicines when it posts its first-quarter results on Tuesday.

An Illinois man pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges he helped three popular online poker websites trick banks into illegally processing payments from U.S. customers in $3 billion scheme.

Cellphone venture Sony Ericsson is expected to shed light on the magnitude of the hit from Japan's earthquake on the cellphone industry when it unveils its January-March earnings on Tuesday.

Standard & Poor's threatened on Monday to downgrade the United States' prized AAA credit rating unless the Obama administration and Congress find a way to slash the yawning federal budget deficit within two years.

Chip maker Texas Instruments Inc warned of slower-than-usual quarterly sales growth as it scrambles to restart production after Japan's massive earthquake, and said it was unclear when the supply of the silicon and wafers it needs will return to normal.

SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL - Apple Inc has sued rival Samsung Electronics claiming that the South Korean firm's Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets slavishly copies the iPhone and iPad, according to court papers.

Texas Instruments Inc warned of slower-than-typical quarterly sales growth as it scrambles to restart production after Japan's massive earthquake, and said it was unclear when the supply of the silicon and wafers it needs will return to normal.

The President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Richard Fisher said on Monday he expected to be at the front of the pack in pressing for monetary policy tightening at an appropriate time.

Volkswagen AG showed off a redesigned Beetle small car on Monday at auto shows in Shanghai, Berlin and New York.