IBT Staff Reporter

Imprisoned financial scam artist Bernard Madoff boasted in a jailhouse letter that he is quite the celebrity and treated like a Mafia don, ABC News said on Thursday.

EU finance ministers neared agreement on Saturday on a framework to provide 100 billion euros to European banks, but were still wrangling over how to do it as Spain, Italy and Portugal raised concerns over the cost.

Households' caution about taking on debt and spending will stand them in good stead when the economic recovery becomes more robust, a top Federal Reserve official said on Saturday.

A festering dispute in Angela Merkel's center-right coalition worsened on Saturday when the chancellor publicly rejected a claim by one of her junior coalition partners that a tax cut proposal had been scrapped.

The German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) is doomed to plunge to Earth sometime this Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning.

Monk Class, the Pandaren race and Pet Battle System are among the new additions of Blizzard's popular MMORPG.

Wireless carrier Sprint announced yesterday that it would no longer be offering unlimited 4G mobile broadband for mobile hotspots, USB modems, tablets and notebooks. Formerly, customers chose one of three plans which offered 3GB, 5GB or 10GB of 3G data and unlimited 4G data. The changes, which will take effect in November, will now only allow 3GB, 5GB and 10GB of combined 3G and 4G data, charging 5 cents for every additional MB of data above the allowance.

Starting Friday at dawn, the Orionid meteor shower will be visible through Saturday. This morning, look up the sky to catch the last sighting of this dust trail left behind by Halley's comet.

Best Buy offers gamers another way to get hot games during midnight releases.

A first look at the most wanted features of Android's Ice Cream Sandwich OS upgrade.

The Facebook privacy war has escalated to a whole new level. An international regulator is now charging that the social-networking site is building shadow profiles of nonusers. That's right, there is no running from Facebook.

The popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and now jobs, better governance, and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum in Jordan said Saturday.

The popular uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and jobs, better governance and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum in Jordan said on Saturday.

Google's SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin spearheaded an attack on one of Apple iPhone 4S' most important features - voice assistant Siri - saying the phone is a tool for communication and should not be an assistant. You shouldn't be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone, Rubin said on Wednesday at the AllThingsD AsiaD conference.

Have you ever wondered how much Apple's latest smartphone iPhone 4S costs? An iPhone 4S teardown analysis from iSuppli reveals the answer. The 16 GB model iPhone 4S carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $188, while the 32GB and 64GB version's BOM are $207 and $245 respectively.

Apple held an employee-only memorial service for Steve Jobs on Wednesday at its Californian headquarters. On Wednesday, at Infinite Loop in Cupertino campus, California, Apple employees gathered for the memorial service for the company's late co-founder Steve Jobs. In the Apple website, a photo of CEO Tim Cook speaking to Apple employees was posted without providing further details.

Samsung unveiled its iconic smartphone Galaxy Nexus at the Mobile Unpacked event with Google in Hong Kong earlier this week. The announcement that Galaxy Nexus will use Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has brought the next evolutionary step of Android to the fore.

Apple's iPad had a strong grip on the tablet market in the last quarter and it still dominates, controlling 67 per cent of the global market, according to Strategy Analytics.

TheSamsung Galaxy Nexus, the latest Samsung and Google flagship smartphone likely to be released in November in the UK, was unveiled in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning. The handset's original Oct. 11 launch date was delayed in memory of Apple's recently deceased co-founder Steve Jobs. Google and Samsung revealed the specs and features of the brand new handset on Wednesday.

The California Board of Parole has denied offering a compassionate release to infamous Onion Field killer Gregory Powell during a Tuesday meeting. Powell, who is now serving a life sentence, was convicted of killing a cop named Ian Campbell around 48 years ago.

The International Monetary Fund is not seeking more funds from Gulf Arab oil exporters to bolster its resources, and the region faces no major danger from the euro zone debt crisis, the IMF's Deputy Managing Director Nemat Shafik said on Saturday.

The organizers of the US Open are considering moving the tournament's men's final permanently to a Monday, after demand from the players.

Banks cannot rely on taxpayers' money to recapitalise themselves, Sweden's Finance Minister said on Saturday ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers that was due to discuss steps to strengthen the European banking system.

Looks like Charlie Sheen is done playing nice with his former bosses.

Attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray on Friday challenged a top anesthesiology expert over assumptions he made in a courtroom demonstration on how Murray could have given Michael Jackson a deadly drug infusion.

NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Muammar Gaddafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.

A former Wall Street banker of Japanese descent has emerged as a key figure in the scandal engulfing Japanese blue-chip company Olympus Corp, according to documents provided by the company's ex-CEO.

Regulators closed four banks in the United States on Friday, including one in Colorado with over $1 billion in assets, bringing the total number of closures this year to 84.

Regulators closed four banks in the United States on Friday, including one in Colorado with over $1 billion in assets, bringing the total number of closures this year to 84.