IBT Staff Reporter

Business sentiment among South Korean manufacturers turned pessimistic for the fourth quarter, falling to the lowest in 2-1/2 years, possibly weighing on investment and business plans for next year, a private survey showed.

Tattoo artist Kat Von D and motorcycle entrepreneur Jesse James have decided to go their separate ways yet again. In a post on Facebook called Odds and Ends, the tattoo artist said that she was no longer in a relationship.

A new study of male and female identical twins has found that environmental or lifestyle factors like stress, smoking, heavy drinking and sun exposure could trigger hair loss, especially in women.

The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it would decide by April whether its resources are sufficient to prevent a global credit crunch if Europe's debt crisis spreads to the rest of the world.

LG, South Korea's second largest business conglomerate, said on Sunday it will invest 8 trillion won ($6.83 billion) in Green New Business sectors such as electric vehicle parts, LED lighting and sewage treatment industries by 2015.

Rick Santorum wants Google to remove results that link his name to anal sex, but Google won't do it.

Italy could face losing its economic competitiveness unless political leaders move quickly to carry out economic reforms to cut its debt and restart growth, the head of UniCredit , Italy's biggest bank, said on Saturday.

Less than two months after ending her attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida because of health problems, Diana Nyad is trying it again. She was about halfway through the swim as of Saturday evening.

British defense giant BAE Systems is set to announce up to 3,000 job losses as it struggles to secure orders for the Eurofighter Typhoon in the wake of cuts to defense budgets by partner nations, British media reported on Sunday.

Europe is working to ramp up the firepower of its bailout fund, top officials said on Saturday, as the United States, China and other nations raised the alarm about its debt crisis hurting the world economy.

Herman Cain won the Florida presidential straw poll on Saturday in a stunning upset, getting more votes than Rick Perry and Mitt Romney combined. Are we looking at a reshaped race for the Republican nomination?

The following are highlights of comments by finance ministers and central bankers in Washington this week for meetings of the Group of 20 and the semiannual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

China's economic outlook is positive, but it must keep battling inflation and be ready to counteract any external shocks, the country's top central banker said on Saturday.

More people have been arrested in New York City for the Occupy Wall Street protests Saturday, as activists protested in Union Square.

Douglas Flint, the chairman of European banking powerhouse HSBC , will take over as chairman of the Institute of International Finance next year, the global bank lobby's current chairman said on Saturday.

In a major breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment, a new drug has been shown to prolong survival in patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Rick Santorum's failure to condemn the audience members who booed a gay soldier was nearly as bad as making a homophobic remark himself.

The euro zone is exploring the possibility of leveraging its bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, to better support euro countries, Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said.

Rick Perry's rise to the top of Republican field has taken a blow recently, especially after Thursday's Fox News/Google Republican debate, leading to gains for Mitt Romney.

Swiss National Bank Chairman Philipp Hildebrand said on Saturday he would do all that is necessary to maintain a ceiling on the Swiss franc, but declined to provide further details.

The following are highlights of comments by finance ministers and central bankers in Washington this week for meetings of the Group of 20 and the semiannual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

People aren't too happy with the new Facebook. In a survey of over 1,000 people conducted by Sodahead, a social-voting-based site, about 86 percent of the Facebook audience said they strongly disliked the changes that the site recently underwent.

Fueling fire to the rumor that the new iPhone 5 will hit stores next month, Verizon is selling the iPhone 4 for $120 until Sept. 30.

Arsenal got a much-needed win against ten-man Bolton, as captain Robin Van Persie scored his 99th and 100th goals for the club in a 3-0 win at the Emirates.

Berlin, under pressure to beef up its response to Europe's debt crisis, wants the region's permanent rescue fund to come into force a year early in 2012, media reported, a move a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's party said he backed.

Debt-laden Greece must push forward with reforms prescribed by its international lenders or face dramatic consequences, the country's central banker said in an interview.

The United States, China and other countries piled pressure on Europe on Saturday to comes to grips with its debt crisis before it risks causing bank runs and pushing the global economy into ruinous recession.

Oswald Gruebel resigned on Saturday as chief executive of troubled Swiss bank UBS, saying he took the blame for the $2.3 billion loss run up in alleged rogue trading in its investment banking division.

A senior lawmaker from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives said on Saturday the euro zone's permanent rescue mechanism should be introduced sooner than mid-2013 to beef up private creditors' response to the Greek debt crisis.