IBT Staff Reporter

Girl Scout Cookie Program that is more than raising money has a lasting impact on girls by building life skills such as leadership, money management, decision-making, teamwork and goal setting, Susan Thompson with the Black Diamond Girl Scout Council says.

William Nelson, 4-year-old reunites with his father after a gunman who killed his mother, Jennifer Nelson, abandoned him at a rest stop in Madison County by a traveling couple.

The machine is billed as the world's first hybrid storage notebook and uses both a SSD and an internal HDD which MSI was planning to show off this coming week at CES.

CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — Pat Hingle, 84, a veteran actor whose was known as Commissioner Gordon in the first four Batman movies in the 1990s, has died after battling blood cancer.

The Minnesota Canvassing Board ruled Democrat Al Franken, the comedian and former radio host, won the razor-close election recount by 225 votes out of nearly 3 million cast Nov. 4

Samsung Electronics plans to introduce the world slimmest LCD TV at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. According to the the company, the LCD TV thickness is one seventh of Samsung's Bordeaux 850 LCD TVs, which is currently the thinnest on the market. Samsung's new product, measuring only 6.5 millimetres (0.26 inch) thick, is thinner than any other existing TV set, and even slimmer than most mobile handsets.

London based Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the maker of classic china and crystal, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday after running out of money and failing to find a buyer.

Australian Dollar: The Australian Dollar opens higher today at 0.7149 and in the last 24 hours has been more up and down than the wicket at the Sydney Cricket Ground. In local

Lenovo, with its IdeaPad line series is previewing Y-Series IdeaPad Y650 laptops at CES in Las Vegas together with other new Ideapad Y-series.

Ford Motor Co. posted a 32% drop in U.S. light-vehicle sales for December while Toyota Motor Co. reported a 37% fall and Honda Motor Co. had a 35% decline, closing out the auto industry's worst year in more than 15 years.

Officials have said that at least 33 people were killed when a huge chunk of mountain slid onto a road in northern Guatemala on Sunday and crushing them.

The dollar bounced against the majors at the start of the week, rallying to 1.3555 versus the euro from 1.3962 and edging up to 93.56 against the yen.

Experts have raised concerns about the dangers of so-called third hand smoke is used to describe chemicals that remain when a person has been smoking.

Apple Inc. Founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer 4 yrs ago, revealed on Monday that his recent weight loss was due to a hormone imbalance.

Eight dead and one has been injured when a helicopter bound for an offshore oil platform crashed in Louisiana's marshlands, Sunday afternoon.

Samsung Electronics plan to introduce the world slimmest LCD TV at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week.

President-elect Barack Obama daughter's Sasha and Malia began their first day of school at Sidewell on Monday.

European Union officials on Monday played down the impact of the gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia despite supply disruptions that are making some countries in Europe dip into gas reserves.

The State Canvassing Board hopes to release the results. Democrat Al Franken had a 225-vote lead over Republican Norm Coleman when election officials completed their recount Saturday.

The four-day Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and the anticipated Macworld event that start tomorrow are expected to draw fewer visitors as the weak economy drains corporate travel and marketing budgets.

President-elect Barack Obama arrived Sunday evening in the Washington area, 16 days before being sworn into office, reported the Washington Post after leaving his home town of Chicago.

Twenty two year-old, Danny Platt, was charged with first-degree murder of his 2-year-old son.

Following the death of their 16 year old son, Jett Travolta, the family has received much support and condolences from family, friends and general public.

Donald Peters of Connecticut following a 20 year tradition with his wife purchased two Connecticut Lottery tickets on November 1, one of which was a $10 million winner, however later that day he suffered a fatal heart attack.

NEW YORK - President-elect Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are considering a major expansion of government-assisted health care insurance and unemployment benefits as part of a two-year economic recovery program, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.

Israeli troops and tanks split the Gaza Strip and ringed its main city on Sunday in an offensive against Hamas militants but civilians trapped in the Palestinian enclave suffered more bloodshed.

An autopsy is planned in the Bahamas for actor John Travolta's 16-year-old son, who died suddenly while on vacation with the family in the Bahamas.

A series of powerful earthquakes on Sunday morning rattled the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua, collapsing a number of buildings and injuring at least three people, officials said.

John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston have denied reports that Jett was autistic. Autism is not recognized by the Church of Scientology, of which Preston and Travolta are both prominent members.