IBT Staff Reporter

France wants a wide international debate as it takes over the G20 presidency to drive its plans for an overhaul of the global monetary system and economic governance, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Saturday.

Chelsea Handler continues calling Angelina Jolie names in her supposed defense of her friend Jennifer Aniston

In a development that comes as a huge relief to travellers passing through regions of volcanic activity, researchers have found a new way of tracking volcanic ash cloud ahead.

Jamie Oliver’s latest book 30 Minute Meals has emerged the fastest selling non-fiction book of all times. The book published by Penguin has sold 735,000 copies in two months, averaging 18 copies a minute during opening hours.

Connecticut's Attorney General formally demanded that Google Inc hand over personal data collected by its Street View cars, saying that inspecting the data is crucial to assessing a penalty.

NEW YORK - Another year, another dashed hope.

NEW YORK - Another year, another dashed hope.

The company says it can protect copyright holders, despite the longer videos it now allows on the site.

Oracle Corp is seeking another $211 million from SAP AG on top of the $1.3 billion jury verdict it won last month after a widely watched copyright infringement trial.

NEW YORK - Justin Bieber was the world's most-streamed music artist in 2010, according to numbers shared by video analytics company TubeMogul.

TerreStar Networks will have to wait a bit longer before it can move forward with its hotly contested bankruptcy plan, losing a bid to get its disclosure statement approved quickly.

A rise in U.S. consumer confidence to its highest in six months and a much bigger-than-expected contraction in the country's trade deficit pointed to a firmer economic recovery on Friday.

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Prices to Buy Gold held firm in London on Friday, ending of what one London trader called another roller-coaster week some 1.7% lower for Dollar and Sterling investors but unchanged vs. the single Euro currency.

Declaring, “This game is not yet over!” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, was joined by her Congressional colleague, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, a few dozen first responders and about 50 supporters today in Lower Manhattan to demand that Congress pass the health and compensation act for the people who got sick working at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The United States recorded a larger-than-expected $150 billion budget gap last month, the largest shortfall for any November, Treasury Department data showed on Friday.

Drugstore chain Walgreen Co on Friday warned customers they may have received unauthorized emails seeking personal data after a breach of one of the company's customer lists.

Think of hedge fund hubs in the United States, and the names that tend to come to mind are New York and Greenwich, Connecticut. Yet when it comes to a major U.S. insider trading investigation, Boston is taking center stage.

Austrian banker Sonja Kohn was a criminal soul mate of Bernard Madoff for 23 years, running an international network of banks and funds to help perpetrate the biggest fraud in financial history, a court-appointed trustee for the Madoff firm said on Friday.

The trustee recovering money for the victims of Bernard Madoff's epic fraud sued Sonja Kohn, founder of Austria's Medici Bank, accusing her of playing a major role in the scheme. The lawsuit seeks $19.6 billion in damages.

Finland's Rovio Mobile, known for its Angry Birds puzzle video game, unveiled on Friday payment software that gives mobile telecom operators a chance to win a share of booming app store business.

Apple Inc is working on a smaller iPad tablet with built-in cameras that could ship early next year, according to manufacturers in Asia.

A Chinese auto sales company traded up slightly and a Chinese tech company fell in U.S. stock market debuts on Friday, a sign that not every Chinese companies will get a blank check in its initial public offering.

Norway's Nobel committee held its Peace Prize awards ceremony on Friday without the award's recipient, human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.

A jury on Friday convicted a former Goldman Sachs computer programer on criminal charges of stealing secret high-frequency trading code from Wall Street's most influential bank.

A rise in U.S. consumer confidence to its highest in six months and a much bigger-than-expected contraction in the country's trade deficit pointed to a firmer economic recovery on Friday.

The situation in the U.S. capital this weekend is fluid.

U.S. stocks rose on Friday, with the S&P 500 at its highest level since the week Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, and breaching technical levels that suggest the year-end rally will persist.

NASA failed to delete sensitive data on computers and hard drives before selling the equipment as part of its plan to end the Space Shuttle program, an audit released on Tuesday shows.