IBT Staff Reporter

Ticket sales to the crown of the statue of Liberty re-opened on Saturday allowing visitors to make telephone and internet reservations.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Saturday it was too early to start withdrawing stimulus for the world's top economies, but governments should pledge a return to more sustainable fiscal policies in the future.

Six Flags Inc , the world's largest regional theme park company, said on Saturday it filed for bankruptcy protection.

North Korea said Saturday it would start a uranium enrichment program and weaponize all its plutonium in response to fresh U.N. sanctions, prompting the United States to demand that Pyongyang stop its provocative actions.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown could face another attempt to depose him by disgruntled Labour MPs, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said on Friday.

Pakistan will increase defense spending by 15.3 percent in the 2009/10 fiscal year as it battles Taliban insurgents in the northwest on the border with Afghanistan.

A NATO warship picked up fourteen Indian sailors off Somalia Saturday, a day after they were freed by pirates who had beaten them during 10 days of captivity.

President Barack Obama on Saturday proposed an additional $313 billion in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and other programs to pay for healthcare reforms expected to cost about $1 trillion over the next decade.

The world's rich nations have started to consider how they will unwind emergency steps to rescue their economies once recovery is certain, according to a draft statement from a meeting of Group of Eight finance ministers on Saturday.

Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election by a thumping margin, official figures showed Saturday, but his moderate challenger rejected the tally as a dangerous charade that could lead to tyranny.

Rich countries may act on their own to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by developing a carbon market they hope will lure in poor nations even if U.N. climate talks get bogged down, experts said.

California on Friday forecast high costs for the most ambitious clean energy plan in the nation, including a 28 percent rise in electricity rates and $115 billion in construction if the state wants to get a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

Deutsche Post will stop the evening flights of its domestic aircraft network that transport letters throughout the country and hopes to save 40-60 million euros annually as a result, a German weekly said.

Tiny carmaker Koenigsegg is ready to take over General Motor's loss-making Saab unit, and says it has numerous good solutions to help get the company back on its feet, its major shareholder told daily Dagbladet. A source familiar with the talks told Reuters this week that General Motors is close to selling its Saab unit to Koenigsegg, and that it was backed by Norwegian investors.

A majority of members in two families controlling Porsche back a deal for the Gulf state of Qatar to acquire a 25 percent stake in the German luxury carmaker, Der Spiegel magazine said.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Saturday it was too early to start withdrawing stimulus for the world's top economies, but governments should start to outline plans for future fiscal sustainability.

Japan is expected to impose its own sanctions against North Korea over its May 25 nuclear test, including suspending all trade, Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday the Taliban wanted to take over the country and vowed to fight against militancy to the end.

A Chinese submarine accidentally collided with an underwater sonar array being towed by a U.S. military ship, CNN reported on Friday, quoting an unnamed military official.

U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on North Korea for its nuclear test may do little to change the ways of the reclusive state and could prod Pyongyang to stoke tensions with military moves, analysts said on Saturday.

U.S. President Barack Obama plans to pursue attempts to engage Tehran whether hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or his moderate rival Mirhossein Mousavi ultimately emerges as the winner of Iran's election.

Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad resoundingly won Iran's election, preliminary official results showed on Saturday, but his moderate challenger alleged irregularities and claimed victory for himself.

Three Saudi nationals were transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

The wave of bankruptcies that has eliminated dozens of U.S. retail chains could force landlords to rethink their traditional aversion to having small, independent retailers as tenants, a retail real estate expert said on Thursday.

Top Mexican broadcaster Televisa and its U.S. licensee Univision on Friday rested their cases in a lawsuit to determine if Televisa can transmit its TV shows to U.S. markets on the Internet.

Textron Inc's Cessna unit said it would cut another 1,300 jobs, underscoring the face of deteriorating demand for corporate aircraft and leaving the company with about half of its workforce remaining.

Boss too mean? Staff fond of slacking? It comes with the territory, says a new study that found personality traits have a big influence on your job.

The City Council of Cleburne Texas is hiring a geology consultant to study if natural gas drilling is causing the first recorded earthquakes in a 140-year history of the town.

Groups and politicians from around the nation expressed concerns as well as satisfaction after the Senate passed a bill to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate Tobacco.