IBT Staff Reporter

A British woman has woken up speaking with a Chinese accent after reportedly suffering brain damage brought on by a severe migraine.

Innkeepers USA Trust , a U.S. real estate investment trust with interests in about 73 hotels, is getting ready for a possible bankruptcy filing after missing debt payments earlier this month, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Europe's flight ban is preventing some life-saving transplant tissue from reaching patients, and other operations have had to be canceled because surgeons are stuck overseas.

Some of John Paulson's clients are indicating they may withdraw money from the billionaire's hedge fund firm, after it was involved in a transaction that led the U.S. government to file a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc , The Wall Street Journal said.

Innkeepers USA Trust , a U.S. real estate investment trust with interests in about 73 hotels, is getting ready for a possible bankruptcy filing after missing debt payments earlier this month, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Stryker Corp and Edwards Lifesciences Corp posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings on Tuesday, reflecting healthy demand for medical devices amid a gradual economic recovery.

Global miner BHP Billiton revealed on Wednesday possible violations of anti-graft laws inside the company, in another blow to the mining industry's tarnished image.

Yahoo Inc said large advertisers showed a renewed appetite for online display ads in the first quarter, but the Internet company's troubled search business put a damper on the company's comeback plan.

Sharon Osbourne says she's having her breast implants removed this summer and will give them to her husband, rocker Ozzy Osbourne, as a paperweight.

Award-winning Irish writer Colm Toibin firmly believes the novel will remain fundamentally unchanged by the Internet or other high-tech innovations, a realm in which he admits he is nearly illiterate.

Former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld lifted his bowed head, looked squarely at U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday and acknowledged that people were hurt in the collapse of the former Wall Street giant.

A West Australian mother has become the first woman to win The Biggest Loser, shedding nearly half her body weight to triumph in the latest series.

There are active names in the options market and then there is Citigroup Inc .

Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Vikram Pandit stressed the bank was now focusing on responsible finance, a comment that comes as rival Goldman Sachs wrestles with legal woes.

Apple Inc's results blew past Wall Street expectations on the back of record iPhone sales, and the company gave a strong revenue forecast, sending its shares up more than 5 percent to an all-time high.

The Australian Dollar opens higher today at 0.9310 after receiving a boost yesterday from the release of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) April 6 board meeting minutes.

Republican lawmakers on Tuesday took a more conciliatory tone toward Democratic proposals to crack down on Wall Street as the U.S. Senate delayed debate on a financial reform package until next week.

Delta Air Lines Inc posted a smaller quarterly loss on Tuesday as business traffic began to recover and said it expects a profit in the current period despite disruptions to transatlantic travel caused by ash from an Iceland volcano.

Johnson & Johnson and Swiss rival Novartis Holding AG reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings, but the results did not suggest accelerating growth for the drugmakers.

Three Wall Street banks urged a Manhattan federal judge not to lift an injunction on Theflyonthewall.com Inc's quick publication of analyst rating changes, saying the financial news service failed to show the ban threatens its ability to stay in business.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported blow-out quarterly earnings on Tuesday, but investors appeared to focus on the U.S. fraud case against the bank as Britain's market watchdog launched its own probe.

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as oil prices lifted energy shares and investors were upbeat about the overall profits recovery, even as some high-profile results fell short of lofty expectations.

Coca-Cola Co expects an improving economy to help North American results this year, but it may have less freedom to raise prices as it catches up to an overhaul by rival PepsiCo Inc .

Charles Schwab Corp agreed to pay $200 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit targeting its money-losing YieldPlus mutual fund, erasing nearly all of its first quarter profit.

Apple Inc posted quarterly results that blew past Wall Street expectations on the back of record iPhone sales, sending its shares up 6 percent to an all-time high.

Google Inc boosted its spending on federal lobbying 57 percent in the first quarter to address issues including patent reform and competition in the advertising market, as the Internet search giant increasingly finds itself in the regulatory spotlight.

Richard Fuld, former CEO of Lehman Brothers, lifted his bowed head, looked squarely at congressional committee members on Tuesday and acknowledged that people were hurt in the collapse of the former Wall Street giant.

Yahoo Inc exceeded Wall Street's earnings expectations in the first quarter thanks to the sale of some of its assets and its search deal with Microsoft, but the company's revenue fell a hair short of Wall Street expectations.

Republican party lawmakers on Tuesday took a more conciliatory tone toward Democratic proposals to crack down on Wall Street as the U.S. Senate delayed debate on a financial reform package until next week.