IBT Staff Reporter

Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Facebook Inc unveiled a partnership on Tuesday to help the world's largest retailer connect customers with its local stores.

China's young migrant workers believe manufacturers can afford bigger pay rises and they are increasingly willing to strike to win them, according to a report that documents the spread of labor unrest across the country's export zones.

Hana Financial Group is willing to renegotiate its agreed $4.1 billion deal to buy Korea Exchange Bank from Lone Star , should the U.S. fund decide not to appeal a court verdict against it, Hana's chairman said on Tuesday.

Hana Financial Group <086790.KS> is willing to renegotiate its agreed $4.1 billion deal to buy Korea Exchange Bank <004940.KS> from Lone Star , should the U.S. fund decide not to appeal a court verdict against it, Hana's chairman said on Tuesday.

Asian shares jumped on Tuesday after China moved to support its stock market by buying shares of major banks, and the euro held the previous session's big gains on hopes that European leaders are finally taking action to protect the continent's lenders.

A reported threat from an activist hacker group to take protests against Wall Street to the Internet by crippling the New York Stock Exchange website appeared to come to nothing on Monday.

A reported threat from an activist hacker group to take protests against Wall Street to the Internet by crippling the New York Stock Exchange website appeared to come to nothing on Monday.

The death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has put the Onion in a difficult position, as the satiric news magazine struggles to remain irreverent without being insensitive.

Amy Winehouse may have left this planet in July, but if her father has his way she'll live on forever, on the world's bookstore shelves.

Christie's auction of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor

A former Miss Iceland who met Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger and his girl friend in California was paid a $2 million reward for the tip that led to Bulger's arrest in June, the Boston Globe said on Sunday.

Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova will put the future of her government on the line on Tuesday before lawmakers cast ballots on a euro zone rescue mechanism that one of her junior ruling parties looks set to shoot down.

Asia's trade volume will almost double by 2025 and will be the key driver of world trade growth despite current global economic headwinds, HSBC said in a report on Tuesday.

Only in the bitter partisanship of our moment could Texas Governor Rick Perry be denounced because he expressed compassion. In the most recent Republican presidential debate, Perry was hammered for supporting a Texas law that allows illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition discounts at public universities. Now he has apologized for saying those who oppose helping illegals attend college “have no heart.”

California's revenue for September missed the state's budget projection by $301.6 million, raising the prospect that spending cuts could be triggered early next year, the state controller said on Monday.

It was during Yitzkor services that my father came back to me.

In commemoration of Fox News' 15th anniversary, Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of FNC's parent company News Corp., and Roger Ailes, President of the network, stopped by its morning show Fox & Friends on Monday.

U.S. solar startup Abound Solar said its chief executive will step down from that post for family reasons and become chairman.

Breakup? What breakup?

Stocks jumped 3 percent on Monday, extending gains into a second week as a pledge by German and French leaders boosted hopes that the euro-zone debt crisis may be resolved.

American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp , said its fourth-quarter mainline capacity will dip 3 percent due to an adjustment in its late fall and winter schedule and that it will retire up to 11 Boeing 757 aircraft in 2012.

Thomas H. Lee Partners and a consortium that includes Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group are finalists to acquire Regions Financial Corp's Morgan Keegan brokerage and investment banking unit, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.

Enlightened opens with health and beauty buyer Amy Jellicoe's (Laura Dern) spectacular workplace meltdown, a frightening outburst so emotional and so public that no one else who unleashed it would ever dare to face any of her co-workers again, let alone ask for her job back.

Here a look at what all the TV-loving kids will be talking about this week.

Brad Pitt might be gunning for a hit with his upcoming horror drama World War Z, but the Hungarian government would prefer that he not do it with actual weapons.

Roseanne Barr is getting back to her blue-collar roots.

Immortals rivals Kellan Lutz and Mickey Rourke are at it again, this time in the action thriller Java Heat.

Jean-Claude Van Damme might be gearing up to do battle once again -- but this time his martial arts skills aren't likely to help him out.

American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp , said fourth-quarter mainline capacity will dip 3 percent due to an adjustment in its schedules and that it will retire up to 11 Boeing 757 aircraft in 2012 in response to high fuel costs and an uncertain economy.