IBT Staff Reporter

The American who swam to the home of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was the key player in the case against her and may not have been working alone, the country's police chief said Friday.

The body of the pilot of an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1 has been identified among dozens that have been recovered from the ocean, the airline said Thursday.

Stocks rose on Thursday as investors held out hope the economic deterioration was receding, boosting the consumer, technology and home builder sectors.

Porsche is free to submit a fresh application for state aid, a German economy ministry official said on Thursday, while Porsche said it was already working with state bank KfW to shape a new bid.

Apple has ushered in pornography to its iPhone when an application called 'Hottest Girls' was seen on its iTunes App Store. The app costs $1.99 only and includes more than 2200 images of attractive topless women and sexy babes.

Neither the German government nor bankrupt U.S. carmaker General Motors will admit it, but rival suitors for GM's Opel unit are likely just pawns in a high-stakes game of poker with favored bidder Magna.

With a tearful admission and groveling apologies, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Wednesday became the latest member of a fast-growing club of U.S. politicians -- the penitent sexual wanderers.

After spending a week in jail, Texas financier Allen Stanford on Thursday will face a U.S. judge who will decide whether the he must remain behind bars while he awaits trial for an alleged $7 billion swindle.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday again denied threatening Bank of America executives if they halted a merger with Merrill Lynch or pressuring them to withhold bad news about Merrill.

Stocks rose on Thursday, reversing early losses, as gains in consumer shares offset jitters about an economic recovery after data showed more workers filed new jobless claims.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama on Thursday of behaving like his predecessor toward Iran and said there was not much point in talking to Washington unless the U.S. president apologized.

From the outside, the rustic red-brick mill on a bend in Maine's Penobscot River resembles any other struggling American pulp and paper mill.

France's Total is ready to invite Russia's Gazprom to join its projects in Africa and elsewhere, the head of Total's Russia unit said on Thursday, a day after striking a major Russian gas deal. We are very open to discussing with a company like Gazprom to have developments abroad including, of course, in Africa, Pierre Nergararyan, general director of Total E&P Russie, told reporters on Thursday.

Videogames were once blamed for rising obesity rates but are now being championed by the medical industry and for use by government departments for their health benefits.

Oil rose above $69 a barrel on Thursday after Nigeria's main militant group shut down one of Royal Dutch Shell's pipeline junction points, heightening concerns about supplies from the region.

Brazilian miner Vale signed a preliminary accord on Thursday with state-run oil company Petrobras to buy a 25 percent stake in exploration rights for oil and gas blocks off Brazil's coast.

The U.S. economy shrank slightly less in early 2009 than previously thought, the government reported on Thursday, though there was widespread weakness in activity and demand was soft.

Wall Street was set for a weak open on Thursday after the number of workers filing new jobless claims rose unexpectedly, as jitters continued to nag that an economic recovery could be tepid.

The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week and the number staying on the rolls after collecting an initial week of aid also edged higher, government data on Thursday showed.

The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week and the number staying on the rolls after collecting an initial week of aid also edged higher, government data on Thursday showed.

The Argentinean woman to whom South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford confessed having an affair with has been identified as Maria Belen Shapur resident of a 14-story building in Buenos Aires and a mother of two sons , one a teenager of driving age and the other younger, according to Terra Argentina today.

The Australian Dollar opens marginally higher from this time yesterday at 0.7965 after another 24-hour session in which most of the action happened offshore.

Stock index futures fell on Thursday after government data showed the number of workers filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week.

Britain warned on Thursday of a growing risk to military and business secrets from computer spies and pledged to toughen cyber security to protect the 50 billion pounds ($82 billion) spent a year online in its economy.

First Solar Inc on Wednesday said it expected to cut manufacturing costs by a third or more over the next five years, mainly by making its solar panels more efficient at transforming sunlight into electricity.

Three-quarters of Americans believe the U.S. government should regulate the release of greenhouse gases from cars and factories to reduce global warming, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Ericsson said its chief executive, Carl-Henric Svanberg, was stepping down to become chairman of BP Plc in a surprise appointment that ends the oil major's fraught search for a successor to Peter Sutherland.

American International Group Inc , which received $180 billion of taxpayer bailouts, said it will give the government stakes in two big life insurance units that it plans to spin off.

Oil rose above $69 a barrel on Thursday after Nigeria's main militant group shut down one of Royal Dutch Shell's pipeline junction points, heightening concerns about supplies from the region.