IBT Staff Reporter

Chelsea's defender Ashley Cole will not face any charges after accidentally shooting an intern at the club with an air rifle at Chelsea's Cobham training ground in Surrey.

by Rachelle HornNEW YORK, March 11 - Covered bond advocates descended on Capitol Hill on Friday to testify before the House Financial Services Committee as the cause for establishing a market in the United States looks to be gaining traction.

People.com is reporting that Twilight stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner were evacuated from the Vancouver Island beach area in British Columbia after a tsunami warning was issued.

Consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level in five months in early March as gasoline prices rose, a survey released on Friday showed.

Chelsea's £50m man Fernando Torres says the Chelsea dressing room has a friendlier atmosphere than what he enjoyed at Liverpool.

Internet video firm Hulu is planning to reduce the size of its board in an attempt to streamline decision-making within the venture, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the plan.

Sales of Apple's iPad ate in to Acer's netbook shipments, giving Dell and edge of the Taiwanese company.

The United States must reduce its dependence on oil and begin to reform energy policy, President Barack Obama said on Friday, pledging to do all he could to keep gasoline prices low.

Big jumps in U.S. oil refining shares on Friday in reaction to Japan's massive earthquake could soon reverse as traders digest the impact of the disaster

California appears to be the region of the U.S. that has been hardest hit by the tsunami generated by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan.

The U.S. will assist Japan with heavy lifting equipment to move debris and has activated two search and rescue teams to help in the aftermath of the massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent Tsunami on Friday that has already killed hundreds of people and has injured and displaced many others.

While the five rappers on this list are probably no surprise, here is the list of today's wealthiest rappers as reported by Forbes.

The president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank doesn't normally face a raucous crowd.

The trading pattern of the prices of stocks and crude oil looks worryingly like it did just before the last recession.

U.S. consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level in five months in early March as gasoline prices rose, a survey released on Friday showed.

Hundreds of people are lining up at Apple Inc stores on both U.S. coasts hours before the iPad 2 goes on sale on Friday, signaling strong appetite for a device that extends Apple's lead in the fledgling market it created.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle launch an aggressive anti-bullying campaign, enlisting the support of popular youth icons Facebook, MTV and Britney Spears.

Regardless of whether hedge fund chief Raj Rajaratnam ends up testifying at his criminal trial, jurors are going to hear a lot from him.

Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker by volume, is more confident that it will not need to write down its $8.1 billion Navteq acquisition, a corporate filing showed on Friday.

Memo to central bankers:Best not to cite the price of the new iPad as an example of why inflation isn't a problem when you head into a working-class neighborhood.

U.S. job openings slipped in January, as did the job openings rate, government data showed on Friday.

Toshiba's main facility producing flash memory used in tablets and smartphones has resumed production after the Japanese earthquake and chip prices could rise due to the setback and logistic problems.

With his 67th birthday just weeks away, the investor widely known as the Bond King has taken one of the biggest bets of his life -- but at least Bill Gross has got some company.

NEW YORK, March 11 - In a closely watched case that could test the reach of U.S. antitrust law, four Chinese companies face powerful evidence that they colluded to limit production and fix prices of vitamin C in the United States. The evidence is so convincing, in fact, that the defendants have not contested the allegations.

Job openings slipped in January, as did the job openings rate, government data showed on Friday.

Europe's banks will be given details of this year's health check of the industry next week, potentially including the capital level needed to pass, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

National banking groups representing firms of all sizes are getting behind a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a crackdown on debit card processing fees.

Google announced via blog post its allowing its users to block certain websites from search results.

Senator Ron Wyden told a White House meeting he is ready to propose a new version of the Build America Bonds program that was part of the federal stimulus plan and that expired in December.