IBT Staff Reporter

Republican front-runner Mitt Romney largely ignored his presidential rivals at a debate on Tuesday, casting himself as the candidate most suited to rescue the economy and lead the party back to the White House.

Even as Wall Street is being occupied and corporations are reviled, there is a revolution quietly raging across the country that empowers corporations to be a strong force for good. This week, California joined that revolution when Governor Jerry Brown created two new classes of corporations for businesses that seek to pursue both profit and purpose: Benefit Corporations and Flexible Purpose Corporations.

The good times are back.Buoyed by a record upfront on Madison Avenue in the spring, as well as a flurry of hit new comedies in the fall, network entertainment presidents expressed a consensus of optimism as they met for a Hollywood Radio TV Society lunchtime panel in Beverly Hills.

Michael Fassbender is returning to work with his now-frequent director, Steve McQueen, for 12 Years a Slave, TheWrap has confirmed.

Let's be clear: we're not suggesting you watch ABC's Last Man Standing, Tim Allen's return to television, because we think it's good.

Joseph Son, the actor who played Dr. Evil's knuckle-cracking sidekick Random Task in the 1997 comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, is suspected of killing his cellmate at Wasco State Prison in California, prison officials announced Tuesday.

UltraViolet, the video anywhere platform that Hollywood hopes will revive the failing home entertainment market, rode in on its white horse Tuesday.

We are all Hank Williams Jr. At least, according to Hank Williams Jr., we are.

Conde Nast's new president of entertainment Dawn Ostroff saw the potential in cable TV before many of her peers. Nowadays, she's excited about the digital future.

An Iranian actress has been sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in jail for starring in an Australian movie with a shaved head -- and no head-covering.

A San Francisco Giants fan who was badly beaten at Dodger Stadium on Opening Day in an attack that touched off a furor in Los Angeles was released from a hospital on Tuesday, doctors said.

The final qualifiers of the Euro 2012 Group games were played out on Tuesday. Here's a round-up of who has qualified, who hasn't and what they have to do to qualify.

Ben Bernanke, if a Republican wins the White House in 2012: you're fired.

A nervy evening for France ended in delight after Samir Nasri's late penalty earned his team a 1-1 draw against Bosnia & Herzegovina, and a place in the Euro 2012 Finals.

Spain strolled into a 3-1 win over Scotland to end the visitors' hopes of qualifying for the Euro 2012 finals, at the Estadio Jose Rico Perez in Spain.

Asian shares fell on Wednesday on concerns Europe's debt crisis has hurt confidence in the global economy and is weighing on corporate earnings, while the Slovak parliament's rejection of a plan to expand the euro zone rescue fund added to uncertainty.

Germany completed a perfect record in the Euro 2012 Qualifiers with 10 wins from as many games after defeating Belgium in Dusseldorf on Tuesday.

U.S. regulators are not likely to adopt a high-profile plan to protect money market mutual funds with an emergency liquidity facility, top fund company executives said.

Information on Japan's Type 80 ASM-1 missile, which can be used against ships, may have been stolen during the August cyber attack on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, the Yomiuri daily said on Wednesday.

Sony said on Wednesday that a third party had tried to sign in to 93,000 active accounts on its PlayStation and other networks this month.

Millions of BlackBerry customers across four continents are without email, messaging and browsing service on their smartphones after a series of failures in Research In Motion's private network.

Two former executives of a bank that received a $300 million federal bailout before its collapse during the financial crisis are facing criminal and civil fraud charges for their role in trying to conceal loan losses.

The head of the U.S. futures regulator has the support he needs to pass a long-awaited rule that would curb excessive speculation in commodity markets, a source with knowledge of the agency's rule-making told Reuters on Tuesday.

The chief executive of Verizon Wireless denied on Tuesday the No. 1 U.S. mobile service is talking with Clearwire Corp about the possibility of using the smaller operator's wireless airwaves in high-demand areas.

This Tuesday night, the moon will turn full but it will be the smallest we've seen for the year. Last Saturday, we saw a large luminous moon during the International Observe the Moon Night, and now we'll see the opposite tonight.

The thousands of protesters camped out in New York's financial district may not see it this way, but these are not the best of times for Wall Street.

Chipmaker ON Semiconductor Corp said operations at one of its facilities in Thailand has been suspended owing to floods, and it could affect revenues for the fourth quarter and 2012.

A trailer for The Avengers, was released Tuesday, and has already been re-posted and linked to by a number of Marvel Comic fans anticipating the movie's release date in May 2012.

Alcoa Inc , the largest U.S. aluminum producer, said an economic slowdown hurt demand and knocked prices for the metal lower, denting its third-quarter profit and sending its shares down in after-hours trading.