IBT Staff Reporter

Stocks tumbled about 2 percent on Tuesday after the deal to rescue Greece and prevent a wider sovereign debt crisis was thrown into disarray.

Prime Minister George Papandreou's call for a referendum on the latest Greek bailout plan has blown a potentially fatal hole in the euro zone's strategy to overcome its sovereign debt crisis.

Redistricting happens every ten years, and it is always followed by court challenges, political fights, and incumbents scrambling for a place to run. Here's some of this cycle's more interesting cases of redistricting madness.

U.S. agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland Co said on Tuesday quarterly net earnings rose from a year ago, but its profits were squeezed by high corn costs and tight oilseed processing margins.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will discuss Greece's decision to hold a referendum on its bailout deal with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday afternoon and then hold an urgent ministerial meeting, Sarkozy's office said.

The pace of growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector unexpectedly slowed in October, in line with trends in China, Britain and Canada in data reported on Tuesday.

Rihanna canceled a show in Sweden after being hospitalized for severe exhaustion caused by a bad case of the flu.

Britain rejected calls from China and Russia for greater Internet controls on Tuesday at the opening of a major cyberspace conference but was criticized for suggesting curbs on social media after recent riots.

Pfizer Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly results, helped by the weaker dollar and strong performance of the nutritionals and animal health businesses it plans to sell or spin off.

Prime Minister George Papandreou's call for a referendum on the latest Greek bailout plan has blown a potentially fatal hole in the Eurozone's strategy to overcome its sovereign debt crisis.

The 23-man shortlist for the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or is dominated by Barcelona and Real Madrid players, who make up more than half of the nominees.

Olympus Corp on Tuesday named six men, including a former Japanese supreme court justice, to investigate past M&A deals at the core of a scandal engulfing the endoscope and camera maker in a bid to stem an exodus of irate investors.

Chrysler Group LLC reported its best October sales since 2007 on Tuesday, the first major automaker to announce sales for what is expected to be the best monthly showing of the year.

Prime Minister George Papandreou's call for a referendum on the latest Greek bailout plan has blown a potentially fatal hole in the euro zone's strategy to overcome its sovereign debt crisis.

Published on Halloween, a study co-authored by Pontus Skoglund and Martin Jacobsson found that a recently discovered member of the Homo genus' genes are more common than we previously thought.

Battlefield 3 becomes the fastest selling game of 2011 as it sells 5 million copies in its first week.

Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has wowed again this quarter, it revealed in an earnings report released today. Third quarter earnings rose to $624.6 million, a 68 percent increase over last year's earnings for the same period and 7 percent increase over the previous quarter, thanks to several Android-based bestsellers.

Amid a push to go beyond the sale of boxed games, the major games retailer starts selling Android tablets.

The secretive hacking collective Anonymous is threatening to expose Mexican drug cartel Zeta.

Halloween celebrations turned deadly in New Orleans when four separate shootings killed two people and injured 13 more early Tuesday morning.

Huttball is a new Player vs. Player Warzone, featuring capture-the-flag gameplay with some deadly additions.

Multiple Fortune 100 companies were the victims of a coordinated series of cyber attacks dubbed Nitro, says security firm Symantec Corp. At least 48 firms - all of which are involved in the chemical and defense industries - were subject to the attack, which has been traced back to a computer system owned by a man in his twenties working out of northern China.

Some big Thai producers of electronic parts could have their flood-hit factories up and running again by the end of November, sooner than expected now that flooding in central provinces has stabilized, but the picture varies greatly across industry.

At least 48 chemical and defense companies were victims of a coordinated cyber attack that has been traced to a man in China, according to a new report from security firm Symantec Corp.

Some big Thai producers of electronic parts could have their flood-hit factories up and running again by the end of November, sooner than expected now that flooding in central provinces has stabilized, but the picture varies greatly across industry.

Capcom reveals two new characters for Ultimate MvC3, Frank West and Rocket Racoon, and new modes.

On Friday, a news release announced that HP's TouchPad that was back for sale again at Best Buy.

Amid bad financial news, Nintendo global president Satoru Iwata says the Nintendo Wii U will debut in 2012.

Along the California coastline, it's occasionally possible to see an eerily breathtaking sight when the sun goes down: millions of flashes of bright blue lighting up the night as the surf meets the beach in an arresting, ethereal display.