IBT Staff Reporter

A 30-year health study in the United States has shown that higher the degree held by a person, the lower his blood pressure.

Even for Carlos Ghosn, the supremely confident CEO of the Renault-Nissan automotive alliance, criticism sometimes hurts.

Stock index futures were higher on Monday after bullish comments from a Federal Reserve official about the economy, easing concerns that high oil prices could hurt economic activity.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's confidant, described as a voluptuous blond Ukrainian nurse, has deserted him amid violent protests in the country demanding his ouster.

The iPhone 5 is expected to be released this summer, contrary to rumors of delay in the market.

Oil prices turned lower on Monday as reassurances from Saudi Arabia that extra supply needs had been met soothed market fears over the spread of protests to oil-producer Oman.

A new online initiative titled Unileaks - clearly inspired by the radical Wikileaks organization - seeks to expose the murky truths of higher education around the world.

Japan's unpopular government was trying on Monday to push through a $1 trillion budget for the year from April but with little chance of getting a divided parliament to pass the bills needed to make it work.

A Illinoise man was in disbelief after learning that he invested two and a half years of his life as well as $200,000 on a fake online girlfriend.

Glencore, the world's largest commodities trader, is briefing analysts ahead of a possible flotation that could be one of the biggest listings ever seen in London, sources familiar with the situation said.

Kenyan central bank Governor Njuguna Ndung'u has been reappointed for a second four-year term, according to an official government notice.

Leaning towards Internet-based learning has led to a growing tendency among students to skip classes, cutting attendance by up to half in certain courses.

South African gaming and hotels group Sun International Ltd reported a flat first-half profit, hit by unfavourable swings in currencies and warned of little growth for the remainder of the year.

A 2.0 percent jump in Ugandan food prices in February from a month earlier helped drive the country's headline inflation rate higher for the fourth month in a row, the statistics office said on Monday.

HSBC cut its profitability targets due to the cost of tougher banking regulations, joining rivals such as Barclays, and disappointed investors with below forecast 2010 earnings.

Sudanese riot police and security agents surrounded organisers of a protest against alleged election fraud on Sunday, witnesses said, in the latest sign of a clampdown following uprisings across the Arab world.

Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi resigned on Sunday after violent protests over his ties to the North African state's toppled former leader, triggering street celebrations in central Tunis.

At least 10 people were killed in clashes between Arab nomads, militia fighters and police in Sudan's flashpoint Abyei region, officials said, in the first report of significant violence since a tentative peace deal.

Veteran Egyptian diplomat Amr Moussa said on Sunday he intends to run for president, a post held for three decades by Hosni Mubarak until he was toppled from power by a mass uprising this month.

Libyan rebels awaited a counter-attack by Muammar Gaddafi's forces on Monday, after the country's leader defied demands that he quit to end the bloodiest of the Arab world's wave of uprisings.

HTC Corp., said its first Android-based CDMA world phone - dubbed HTC Merge - is slated to hit multiple carriers based in the United States, starting spring 2011.

To get a measure of what financial markets think about plans to make trading in derivatives more uniform and transparent, ask no further than the regulators themselves. Thomas Huertas, a senior UK Financial Services Authority official, said recently that unless the plans to centralize trillions of dollars' worth of contracts were thought through carefully, it could be a bit like putting a Chern...

Glencore, the world's largest commodities trader, is considering a flotation that could be one of the biggest listings ever seen in London, a source familiar with the situation said.

HSBC cut its profitability targets due to the cost of tougher global bank regulations on Monday, and disappointed investors as its 2010 earnings came in slightly below analysts' forecasts.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower opening on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.08 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.13 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.27 percent at 4.17 a.m. EST.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower opening on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.08 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.13 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.27 percent at 4.17 a.m. EST.

Oil prices advanced on Monday as protests in Oman raised concerns about supply from the Middle East, though world stocks rose and were on track to post their third straight month of gains on an improving growth outlook. Copper prices extended the previous session's 3 percent gains after an earthquake in top producer Chile, though benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasuries were also in demand, sending yiel...

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced on Monday a food security bill for 2011/12, a budget measure that would provide cheap grains for millions of India's poor but which has sparked worries over its huge cost.

Chelsea will take appropriate action on Ashley Cole after he accidently shot an intern at Chelsea's training ground Cobham.