IBT Staff Reporter

The crew of the space shuttle Discovery gets a message from Captain Kirk.

Here's the list of the top 10 celebrities with the most Twitter followers.

Sen. Mark Miller, the leader of 14 Wisconsin Democrats who fled to Illinois to delay a bill that would weaken public unions, has proposed an in-person meeting with Gov. Scott Walker and the lead Republican in the state Senate, Scott Fitzgerald.

French luxury group LVMH is buying Italian peer Bulgari for 3.7 billion euros ($5.2 billion), adding luster to its jewelry business and broadening its exposure to emerging markets.

Leave it to a hedge fund named for a philosophical Roman emperor to try to turn a contentious corporate bankruptcy into a campaign for decency and morality.

LOS ANGELES - Winning, indeed.

Stocks fell further in early afternoon trading on Monday, with the Nasdaq declining more than 2 percent and the Dow and S&P 500 down more than 1 percent each.

LOS ANGELES - Winning, indeed.

Manchester United did not provide any post-match comments after Sunday's 3-1 loss at Liverpool, with manager Sir Alex Ferguson and assistant Mike Phelan refusing to face the media.

Just one word ... plastics.That well-known line from the classic 1967 movie The Graduate may sum up the recent investment strategy of some top hedge fund managers, including James Dinan and David Einhorn.

The troubled actor Charlie Sheen has reportedly purchased the former Beverly Hills, Calif. home of Mike Medavoy, one of the producers of the Oscar nominated film Black Swan, for $7.5 million.

Usher is the latest celebrity to say that he will return the money he was paid for performing at a Gadaffi family party in St. Barts.

Brent crude prices rose above $118 a barrel and U.S. prices pushed to their highest level since September 2008 on Monday, before paring gains in volatile trading, lifted by Libya's conflict and the threat of wider supply disruptions in the Middle East.

YRC Worldwide said on Monday that its chief financial officer was resigning as the top U.S. trucker tries to turn around its troubled finances.

The best way to buy Gold is to aquire it as cheap as possible. There are several factors influencing the effective price, and one of them is of overpowering importance. Gold, and other precious metals, are the best performing asset class of all over the last decade and multiplied their nominal value by a factor of five.

Top hedge funds turned conventional wisdom on its head in the fourth quarter by swapping out Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs Group Inc for battered bailout survivor Citigroup Inc .

Stocks fell on Monday, weighed down by a downgrade of the semiconductor sector and worries about the effect of higher oil prices on the economy, which is unlikely to change soon.

Al Qaeda's attempts to recruit in the United States and three incidents over the past two years involving killings or attempted killings of Americans are what prompted an investigation into the extent of radicalization in the Muslim community, Rep. Peter King of New York said on Sunday.

Though details are scant, the game will take flight later this year.

A partner at Foley & Lardner has sued the firm for discrimination and breach of contract, citing in his complaint that the firm treated younger, female and/or non-white employees more favorably.

At a time law graduates would sell their arms and legs and maybe something more to get into a BigLaw, a Sidley Austin associate has dumped his cushy job to go hiking from Delaware to California with a tent and his dog, Mabel.

The lawyers representing former Pennsylvanian judge Mark Ciavarella, who was convicted last month by a federal jury in Scranton of 12 of the 39 counts in the 'kids for cash' case, said he is innocent and are seeking an acquittal or a new trial.

The death knell for embattled BigLaw Howrey could ring as early as this week with firm partners reportedly set to vote on winding down its operations.

Central banks worldwide are unified in seeking to anchor expectations for future inflation, but that does not mean they will all go about it in the same way, policymakers said Monday.

Charlie Sheen can certainly use his catchphrase winning to describe his latest Twitter feat.

Moody's slashed Greece's credit rating by three notches on Monday due to an increased default risk, raising the specter that the distressed euro zone sovereign may have to restructure its debt, perhaps before 2013.

Bob Diamond, the new chief executive of British bank Barclays Plc, was paid a bonus of 6.5 million pounds ($10.6 million) for last year and received a similar amount in shares under a long-term plan.

A senior U.S. Federal Reserve official warned on Monday that he would vote to scale back or stop the central bank's $600 billion bond-buying program if it proves to be demonstrably counterproductive.

Kate Middleton plans to wear a gown by Alexander McQueen designer Sarah Burton. The Telegraph is reporting that the gown will combine Middleton's and Burton's ideas.