IBT Staff Reporter

A defense witness in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor was fined $250 on Wednesday, but escaped sanction for calling another witness a scumbag.

Bethesda's newest fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is doing pretty well in the sales charts. The game sold 3.5 million copies during the first two day on physical and digital shelves. Skyrim's predecessor, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, gets a 75 percent off discount on the Steam store.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski moved past his mentor Bob Knight to become U.S. Division I college basketball's all-time wins leader on Tuesday.

NBC's weight-loss series The Biggest Loser, which suffered the loss of host and trainer Anna Kournikova and nutritionist Cheryl Forberg this week, dropped 13 percent in the ratings Tuesday night.

YouTube's new premium content push featuring the likes of Madonna and Ashton Kutcher spurred speculation that the Google-owned site is issuing a direct challenge to the television industry.

United Talent Agency has signed a lease for its new global headquarters, real estate developer Tishman Speyer announced Tuesday.

Networks are prepared to miss the first few months of a delayed NBA season. But now that it looks like the entire season could be canceled, TNT, ESPN/ABC and the league's other broadcast partners have to make some serious programing decisions.

The woman who claimed teen singer Justin Bieber fathered a baby with her has dropped her paternity lawsuit, but Mariah Yeater's lawyer said on Wednesday she is pursuing her claim out of court.

Drake certainly didn't invent hip-hop solipsism. But the genre's newest superstar proves more intriguingly introspective than most on Take Care, a solid sophomore effort that's destined to have hundreds of thousands of eager buyers also gazing into his navel this week.

A long-awaited French deal for Dassault to sell at least 60 Rafale fighter jets worth an estimated $10 billion to the United Arab Emirates hit a new snag on Wednesday when it said proposed terms were uncompetitive and unworkable.

A James Madison University bus struck and killed an 18-year-old freshman.

Stocks fell on Wednesday as warnings about the impact of Europe's debt crisis on the global economy kept investors cautious, but optimism about the U.S. economy limited losses.

The company announced Wednesday that it was expanding its 4G network to 14 new markets on top of the 165 markets already covered.

Social media and mobile communications will be the two big targets for Google Inc when it unveils a new music store for users on Wednesday, according to four people familiar with its plans.

The jury has reached a verdict in an antitrust case brought by Rambus against Micron and Hynix, according to a court spokeswoman.

China's Huawei Technologies , which has aggressively grabbed around the fifth of mobile telecom gear market, has shifted its focus on improving its margins after it has got a large enough foothold in the market, a company official said.

Former Charles Manson follower Charles 'Tex' Watson is seeking parole for the fourteenth time this week. He has been in jail since 1971 for the Tate/LaBianca murders committed by the infamous 'Manson Family' in 1969.

Banks are shedding jobs worldwide as stricter regulations and a tough six months for trading income take their toll on investment banking units.

According to the rumor mill the successor to the Xbox 360 could be some sort of cloud-gaming hybrid mixing physical discs with an online service. Analysts have been busy trying to figure out Microsoft's next move.

Western Digital is set to win EU regulatory approval to acquire Hitachi Ltd's <6501.T> hard disk drive business after agreeing to sell some operations to alleviate competition concerns, two persons familiar with the case said on Wednesday.

Google Inc is expected to unveil on Wednesday an online music download store featuring songs from three major music companies, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Citigroup In c may cut slightly more than 3,000 jobs, becoming the latest U.S. bank to eliminate positions, a source familiar with the matter said.

Despite AT&T receiving competition in iPhone sales from Sprint and Verizon, the company's churn rate is stable.

Kris Humphries looked so miserable and gloomy when he was photographed landing in NYC on Monday - two weeks after his estranged Kim Kardashian filed for divorce.

Top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Wednesday defended their companies' pay practices which have drawn opposition after it was disclosed the government-controlled firms were paying out nearly $13 million in executive bonuses.

Mitt Romney is leading the polls in New Hampshire, the nations first primary. But the Governor of Iowa, where voters will caucus in the first nominating contest of any kind, says the former Massachusetts Governor is ignoring the Hawkeye state.

Nokia plans to undercut its Windows Phone rivals to give its new smartphones a foothold in the market before trying to improve margins, its Chief Executive Stephen Elop said on Wednesday.

Cameroon's state oil company has increased its 2011 oil production forecast to 65,000 barrels per day from 55,000 bpd, an official told Reuters late on Tuesday.

Nokia plans to undercut its Windows Phone rivals to give its new smartphones a foothold in the market before trying to improve margins, its Chief Executive Stephen Elop said on Wednesday.