IBT Staff Reporter

Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey have joined the cast of Freedom Films' upcoming Iraq war movie Thunder Run, Freedom's CEO Brian Presley announced Thursday.

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Steven Spielberg's 3-D take on Georges Remi's treasured comic books, is already a hit overseas with audiences. But what about the critics?

Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom will co-star in Roger Donaldson's Cities.

From Blade Runner to Total Recall, Hollywood has made millions spinning the futuristic tales of Philip K. Dick into big screen entertainments.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are backing the candidacy of the head of Switzerland's central bank to lead the Financial Stability Board, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The head of internet, telephone and TV provider Cablecom said he was looking at all options when asked about whether his firm might buy mobile phone provider Orange Switzerland, a unit of France Telecom SA, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Sony Corp, struggling with a loss-making television business, is considering dissolving its LCD joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

The number of smart phone subscribers in South Korea, one of the world's most wired countries, hit 20 million last week, as some 40 percent of the country's citizens signed up to use the mobile device, the state telecoms regulator said on Sunday.

Before Indra Nooyi became CEO of PepsiCo Inc. or Vikram Pandit took the reins at Citigroup Inc., there was Rajat Gupta, the original global Indian who was the first to head a major Western business.

Before Indra Nooyi became CEO of PepsiCo Inc or Vikram Pandit took the reins at Citigroup Inc there was Rajat Gupta, the original global Indian who was the first to head a major Western business.

Qantas Airways sparred with unions at a second labor tribunal on Sunday after Australia's prime minister called for an end to the industrial dispute that grounded the airline's entire fleet, stranding tens of thousands of passengers around the world.

Japan's Sony Corp., struggling with a loss-making television business, is considering dissolving its liquid-crystal-display joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday.

WPP LLC, the world's largest advertising company, sees China overtaking Britain as its second-biggest market in two to four years, its CEO said Sunday.

WPP Llc , the world's largest advertising company, sees China overtaking Britain as its second biggest market in two to four years, its chief executive said on Sunday.

Sony Corp, struggling with a loss-making television business, is in negotiations to pull out of its LCD joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.

Europe should not expect China to ride to the rescue as its savior from the debt crisis, though Beijing will do what it can to help a friend in need, the state-run Xinhua news agency said in a commentary Sunday.

General Motors Co sees growth of between 7 percent to 10 percent in China's car market this year, its chief executive said on Sunday.

Chinese police have arrested 12,125 people during a crackdown on the sale of narcotics online and have confiscated more than 300 kg of illegal drugs, state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet was quoted by a German newspaper as saying inflation in the euro zone would be very low over the next 10 years, with expectations currently for around 1.8 percent.

Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp is set to post a group net loss of 300 billion yen ($3.95 billion) in the year to March 2012, hurt by a global slowdown and the yen's strength, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.

American oil and gas company Apache Corp plans to increase investments in its Egypt operations by $1.5 billion starting in 2012, Egypt's General Authority for Free-zones and Investments said on Saturday.

Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's regulator on Saturday rejected criticism he was obstructing a housing recovery by taking too narrow a view of his mission to protect the financial health of the two massive, taxpayer-supported mortgage firms.

Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's regulator on Saturday rejected criticism he was obstructing a housing recovery by taking too narrow a view of his mission to protect the financial health of the two massive, taxpayer-supported mortgage firms.

Samsung Electronics' president expected Thailand floods to further hit the computer memory chip market by hurting PC production until the first quarter of next year.

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet was quoted by a German newspaper as saying inflation in the euro zone would be very low over the next 10 years, with expectations currently for around 1.8 percent.

Members of MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s board of directors met Saturday to discuss options for the sale of the brokerage, Bloomberg News reported.

Europe still has a long way to go to solve its crisis, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was cited as saying by a magazine, noting it was key that Italy did its homework and implemented promised reforms.

Mexico's state oil monopoly Pemex will start upgrading its Salamanca refinery next year in an effort to cut down on gasoline imports, which now account for around 40 percent of national demand.

About 250 workers at the world's No. 3 copper deposit, Chile's Collahuasi mine, refused to start their morning shift on Saturday in protest over a bonus payment, union leader Manuel Munoz said.