IBT Staff Reporter

NBC premiered two new sitcoms last night : one showed potential, the other did not.

Google Inc and authors and publishers groups have about nine more months to untangle their six-year-old legal dispute over plans to create the world's largest digital library, a federal judge said on Thursday.

University of California tuition may increase by up to 16 percent each year for the next four years if the system doesn't get more state funding, according to a long-term budget plan released Wednesday.

United Parcel Service Inc Chief Executive Scott Davis said the world's largest package delivery company is on track for record results this year in the face of the economy's bumpy ride and expectations for sluggish economic growth.

Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack, whose sharp elbows and aggressive cost-cutting tactics earned him the nickname Mack The Knife, will step down at the end of the year, fully handing the reins to Chief Executive James Gorman.

Encana Corp Chief Executive Randy Eresman did exactly what investors wanted when he created the quintessential pure play in North American natural gas. That's now his biggest problem.

JPMorgan Chase & Co was sued by Wells Fargo & Co , which seeks to force it to buy back more than 800 soured mortgage loans that it oversees as trustee.

Two bioethics professors are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who shows them medical records proving Michele Bachmann's claim that the HPV vaccine made a girl mentally retarded.

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is not counting on much love from the crowd when he visits his former Atlanta Falcons team for the first time as a starter in a matchup of two clubs with Super Bowl hopes.

Fifteen Democratic lawmakers asked the Obama administration on Thursday to approve AT&T Inc's proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA.

United Parcel Service Chief Executive Scott Davis said the world's largest package delivery company is on track for record results this year even in the face of the economy's bumpy ride.

A Mexican drug gang this week issued a threat to websites that cover the drug war in a message placed near two mutilated bodies suspended from an overpass near the U.S. border.

Internal strife at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over how to craft a workable rule to crack down on speculation in oil markets has prompted two internal whistleblowers to ask the agency's inspector general to step in.

A teen girl in Western Texas was charged Thursday by state authorities for faking leukemia, a terminal cancer, and collecting nearly $17,000 in donations.

The Canadian government declined to say on Wednesday whether it was preparing legislation to head off another strike at Air Canada, the country's biggest airline.

Bipartisan support is growing to allow private companies to quickly tap thousands of small investors through a strategy called crowdfunding.

Supermodel and TV host Heidi Klum was named on Thursday as the most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace, inviting malware and viruses to flourish on computers.

AT&T is launching its 4G LTE network in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio next week.

Morocco's trade deficit expanded 22.6 percent in the January-August period from a year ago to 122.2 billion dirhams due mainly to higher spending on energy imports, official data showed on Thursday.

The International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for growth in Ivory Coast on Thursday, citing a faster-than-expected rebound in industrial and agricultural production since the end of a post-election conflict.

South African energy minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday she had signed off on a proposal for new nuclear power plants, likely worth tens of billions of dollars, and said it would be presented to cabinet soon.

South Africa's government bonds reversed losses on Thursday and yields fell as investors drifted back into local debt to snap up bargains following a couple of days of heavy selling when risk aversion hit emerging markets.

South African President Jacob Zuma will appoint a commission to investigate a multi-billion dollar arms deal, his office said on Thursday, in a new probe into corruption allegations against several companies and top officials including Zuma himself.

Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron landed in Libya to a heroes' welcome on Wednesday, promising help for the new rulers that French and British air power helped to install and being told the favour may be repaid in business contracts.

New claims for jobless aid rose unexpectedly last week and factory activity along much of the Eastern seaboard contracted early this month, bolstering the case for more action to support the struggling economy.

The childhood friend of a slain NBC executive has agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter in connection to what has been described as an accidental shooting death in March.

At the Toronto International Film Festival Wednesday, IFC Films acquired North American and Latin American rights to Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister.

Not since Frank Sinatra was featured in a commercial sending the casino owner off to fetch him some towels has Las Vegas hotelier Steve Wynn suffered such a public embarrassment.

Sales jumped 2.7 percent in the month to C$46.7 billion ($46.7 billion) following three straight months of declines and beating estimates of a 1.3 percent gain, Statistics Canada said on Thursday.