IBT Staff Reporter

FedEx Corp forecastprofit for the current quarter below analysts' expectations, casting doubt on the sustainability of its holiday volume surge and sending the package delivery giant's shares down more than 5 percent.

Anadys Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental hepatitis C drug, ANA598, showed positive preliminary results in a mid-stage trial, sending its shares up as much as 9 percent in premarket trade.

For once, the TV writers were content.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday he saw no need for a new security treaty proposed by Russia, rebuffing the Kremlin's call for new defense arrangements in Europe.

Older women who take an antidepressant seem to have a small but noteworthy increased risk of stroke and death compared to older women not on an antidepressant medication, a new study shows.

When Second City, the Chicago-based comedy theater troupe, marked its 50th anniversary this past weekend with an alumni reunion, the event drew as many stars as a Hollywood premiere.

Suvadee Sukkasem is still searching for her son who vanished when the Indian Ocean tsunami turned this tropical paradise into a mass grave for thousands of Thais and foreign vacationers nearly five years ago.

Television polygamy drama Big Love returns for a fourth season in January with a gay storyline that is likely to stir up controversy in Mormon circles where homosexual relations are prohibited.

Treating depression may help people with diabetes get their blood sugar under control.

Synthetic blood platelets injected into patients at the scene of a traumatic injury can speed up blood clotting and stem internal bleeding, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

The number of workers filing new applications for jobless insurance unexpectedly rose last week, bumped up by seasonal adjustments, according to government data on Thursday that still suggested the labor market was improving.

Will a gene bring healthful blessings or the curse of disease? It may depend on whether it is inherited from mom or dad, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Aircraft black boxes should be adapted to emit signals for longer to make it easier to find the flight recorders after crashes at sea, experts investigating an Air France disaster said on Thursday.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was discharged from hospital on Thursday, four days after an attack which left him with a fractured nose and broken teeth.

Around 4,500 passengers were stranded abroad on Thursday after the suspension of Scottish airline Flyglobespan, administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers said.

As Dubai developers reassured the world their ambitious construction projects would go ahead, officials from the emirate were expected in New York to shore up confidence after a debt landslide threatened its top companies.

Small particles from traffic and heating oil combustion may cause children younger than two to wheeze and cough, according to a new study.

Business leaders are watching Copenhagen climate talks, which might launch new, bigger carbon markets and help drive investment in green technologies.

European carbon emissions futures fell five percent to a new two-week low on Thursday due to deadlocked U.N. climate talks and warnings by ministers that they could fail, traders said.

Following are notable quotes about U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen on Thursday, where negotiations were deadlocked with just one day left to work out a new deal to combat global warming after two years of work.

U.S. President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen on Thursday to help secure a U.N. climate pact, staking his credibility on an as yet elusive deal that has ramifications for him at home and on the world stage.

The U.S. Senate staggered toward the healthcare finish line on Wednesday, as Republicans used new tactics to delay debate and a Democratic holdout remained uncommitted after meeting President Barack Obama.

Russia's UC RUSAL, the world's biggest aluminum maker, may not be able to sell IPO shares to retail investors even if it wins approval for its increasingly troubled $2 billion Hong Kong initial public offering.

Nearly 20 percent of the U.S. population -- or almost 60 million people -- went without health insurance at some point since January 2008, according to government estimates released Wednesday.

Danish hosts re-launched U.N. climate talks on Thursday after the United States backed a $100 billion (62 billion pound) global fund to support poor countries and world leaders gathered for a final effort to reach a deal.

Rite Aid Corp posted its 10th straight quarterly loss as customers cut back on discretionary purchases and the drug store chain worked on refreshing its stores to reignite sales growth.

Genes may explain why some people are more susceptible than others to leprosy, an extensive study in China published in the New England Journal of Medicine appears to have found.

Scientists have indentified all the changes in cells of two deadly cancers to produce the first entire cancer gene maps and say the findings mark a transforming moment in their understanding of the disease.

Arturo Beltran Leyva, the chief of an important Mexican drug cartel, was killed at his apartment on Wednesday in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, the Mexican Navy said in a statement.