IBT Staff Reporter

Kenya's only ski racer, Philip Boit, is back home without participating in his planned last Winter Olympics after falling ill in the United States.

Ireen Wust of the Netherlands made up for a disappointing start to her Olympics by claiming Vancouver speedskating gold in the women's 1,500 meters at the Richmond Olympic Oval on Sunday.

Big-name athletes are giving Olympic curling a boost by lending both their star power and locker-room motivational techniques.

There was a cheeky grin on gold medal winner Bode Miller's face as he crossed the line to take the lead in the Olympic men's super combined on Sunday and his father recognized it right away.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sought on Monday to force a quick parliamentary vote she hopes will back her government before President-elect Viktor Yanukovich has time to muster support to bring it down.

Finnish media rounded on the country's athletes on Monday for their performance at the Vancouver Olympics where the sports-mad country lags Australia in medals and could be facing its worst-ever performance.

India's economy will accelerate in the coming years as it recovers from the global downturn and the government will act to protect the poor from the impact of food inflation, the president said on Monday.

Sunday's Olympics ice hockey grudge game between Canada and the United States was billed as the hottest show at the Vancouver Winter Olympics for good reason -- bragging rights alone can mean more than mere medals.

Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said on Monday that Indian concerns about militant groups based in Pakistan would form the main focus of her talks on Thursday with her Pakistani counterpart.

The International Olympic Committee has ordered a blogger to remove a video showing the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili from his website.

The death toll from last month's devastating earthquake in Haiti could jump to 300,000 people, including the bodies buried under collapsed buildings in the capital, Haitian President Rene Preval said on Sunday.

German master Andre Lange powered smoothly to victory in the Olympic two-man bobsleigh on Sunday to continue his total domination of the sport.

The Big Red Machine got back in gear as Russia beat the Czech Republic 4-2 to kick off a potentially explosive Olympic hockey Super Sunday.

Campbell Soup Co's soup sales fell 8 percent in the United States during the key late fall and winter months, with the more expensive ready-to-serve line the hardest hit.

Lowe's Cos Inc reported a 27 percent rise in quarterly profit, boosted by rising lumber prices and demand for appliances, and said it expected sales to rise 1 percent to 3 percent in the current quarter.

Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir wowed the fans and judges with their sultry Flamenco moves on Sunday to upstage Russian favorites Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin in the Olympics ice dance event on Sunday.

Lowe's Cos Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly results on rising lumber prices and demand for appliances, and the No. 2 U.S. home improvement chain forecast a sales rise in 2010.

North Korea has proposed holding military talks with the South next week after it raised tension on the troubled peninsula last week by warning it would hold live-fire drills near the border with its rival.

It was indeed Miller Time -- as the beer slogan goes -- for the U.S. Olympic team Sunday after skier Bode Miller snatched his first Olympic gold medal and ice hockey goalkeeper Ryan Miller stopped Canada in a heartbreaking loss for the hockey-crazed host nation.

President Barack Obama will pitch his bid to revamp the U.S. healthcare system as a way to control big insurance company rate increases when he releases his healthcare plan on Monday, the White House said.

Brisbane-based architects Owen and Vokes maintain a remarkably rigorous aesthetic in all their projects, using a palette of natural wood, vertically laid white tile, and louvered windows.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Monday after Schlumberger agreed to buy Smith International for $11.34 billion in stock and Lowe's Co. posted better-than-expected earnings, indicating increased confidence among corporate managers and consumers.

U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware programme used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

A senior Chinese military officer has called for a new national body to enforce Internet controls, while China faced fresh claims on Monday about the source of hacking attacks that hit search giant Google.

I object to celebrities sticking their toe in and stepping out again, like Victoria Beckham, Sienna Miller's sister -- they'll be here for a couple of seasons and then they're off and we're still hanging around, he told reporters backstage after his opening show at London Fashion Week.

U.S. stock index futures rose on Monday after Schlumberger agreed to buy Smith International for $11.34 billion in stock and Lowe's Co. posted better-than-expected earnings, indicating increased confidence among corporate managers and consumers.

DENVER - It's been more than six years since then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates admitted that Apple caught the company flat-footed in the digital music market and directed his team to make up for lost ground, according to recently surfaced internal e-mails.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed the vaccine to help protect people aged between 11 and 55 years against potentially deadly meningitis.

Indian energy company Reliance Industries Ltd has raised its offer for bankrupt petrochemicals maker LyondellBasell ACCEIN.UL to about $14.5 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people with knowledge of the offer.