IBT Staff Reporter

U.S. officials have revealed that an American detained in Pakistan after killing two men worked for the U.S. spy agency as a contractor, and not as a diplomat as previously said, according to reports.

The British Daily Mail is reporting that Britney Spears is facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit accused of ripping-off song lyrics for her new single, Hold It Against Me.

A combination satellite and ground-based system could interfere with GPS signals, causing problems for the military and airlines.

Leonardo DiCaprio is taking on the role of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire in the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Next Monday is just a week away, but the next big step in the battle over the 2011 budget has been taking shape ahead of the Senate's reconvenes on February 28.

Kobe Bryant is taking Los Angeles by storm. The L.A. Lakers star was the first athlete to receive is own hand and footprint ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

The Silver Price rose $1.49 per ounce from Friday's London Fix – a gain of 4.7% to new 31-year highs, and silver's fifth largest one-day move of the last 30 years in Dollars and cents. The market is starting to look towards the record high of $1430 for gold against the backdrop of silver making fresh highs.

A purported threat from the hacker group Anonymous against the Westboro Baptist Church has them trading barbs and threats.

Silver touched its highest USD price in 31 years and palladium a 10-year peak. Gold prices rose above $1,400 an ounce on Monday for the first time in nearly seven weeks as violence flared in north Africa and the Middle East, boosting interest in the precious metal as a haven from risk.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum will feature the evolution of video games as an art form.

Prosthetic fangs, gold grills, tooth tattoos - these might sound crazy to you, but wait until you hear some other requests. The answers might shock you!

Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) raised a cudgel against Anonymous, claiming that its website is under threat from the outfit known for taking down sites with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Only a few website owners are aware that obscure penalties applied by leading search engines cause unexplained falls in visitor traffic, according to a survey.

The report shows that while healthcare employment rose 6.3 percent, employment in other sectors fell by 6.8 percent cumulatively in the period from December 2007.

Barcelona thanked Lionel Messi after his late winner against Athletic Bilbao kept the Catalans' lead at the top at five points, after Real Madrid had cut it to two after their 2-0 victory over Levante on Saturday.

Exploring a few prominent occupations in the healthcare industry that are expected to grow at some of the fastest rates over the years leading up to 2018, as predicted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Lady Gaga added racy nun ensemble to her outrageous costume list with Atlantic City Monster Ball Tour. Slideshow recalls some of her outrageous and bizarre outfits.

Sony Computer Entertainment America won a preliminary injunction against a hacker who publicized a method for allowing Playstation 3 consoles to install non-Sony operating systems. But others might still tinker with their machines.

Apple has stopped selling MacBook Pro until Thursday as its online store states that MacBook Pro's will ship in 3-5 business days, giving credence to reports which say MacBook Pro lineup is due for a refresh.

Trevor Bayne won the season-opening Daytona 500 for Woods Brothers Racing and in the process became the youngest Daytona 500 winner.

E.Life, a social media monitoring and analysis vendor, used its Tweetmeter software to find out whether Twitter could predict the Academy Award winners.

China's Tunisia-style 'Jasmine Revolution' wilted within hours of mobilization after police descended on the protest areas and squashed the uprising. The slideshow go through how and why the protests failed.

On day three of the F1 pre-season testing at Barcelona, Nico Rosberg's late surge bettered Lewis Hamilton's time by 0.690 seconds, after the German clocked 1m: 23.168. Vitay Petrov was second for Renault, 0.395 seconds ahead of Hamilton.

China's Tunisia-inspired 'Jasmine Revolution' fizzled out in two hours. Protesters called for revolt at 2 p.m. Sunday in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities, but failed. Phone messaging services, Internet have been blocked in the communist nation.

Canada based rare earth mineral company Rare Element Resources is planning to open a strip mine inside a national forest in northeast Wyoming, the Associated Press reported.

Former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton will be heading a new center called the National Institute for Civil Discourse, launched at the University of Arizona in Tucson to promote civility in public discourse.

South Korean automaker Hyundai Motors is seeking to secure rare earth mineral supply, as the industry faces a possible shortage of minerals.

Sarah Ferguson, Obamas and Sarkozys will not be attending

He died of a drug overdose