IBT Staff Reporter

Barnes & Noble Inc forecast sales of its Nook e-reader and e-books would more than double this fiscal year to $1.8 billion and said book sales would get a lift from the demise of rival Borders, sending its shares up 8 percent

George Clooney kicks off the 2011 Venice film festival on Wednesday with the world premiere of his political drama The Ides of March, setting the tone for a star-studded 11 days on the Lido waterfront.

Actress and environmental activist Daryl Hannah was briefly arrested outside the White House on Tuesday during a protest against a proposed $7 billion oil pipeline, police said.

Lucas Brody was just 10 years-old when he watched the Twin Towers fall to the ground one block from his New York home on September 11, 2001; Caitlin Langone was 12 when her police officer dad died that day trying to rescue people from the scene.

Angelina Jolie has dismissed ongoing speculation about marriage and more kids with her partner Brad Pitt, telling Vanity Fair in an interview published on Tuesday that there are no secret wedding plans.

An unprecedented evacuation of the International Space Station could occur if Russian spacecraft do not return by November, a senior NASA official said. There is a greater risk of losing the ISS when it's unmanned than if it were manned, ISS program manager Michael Suffredini said in a conference call.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said on Tuesday his nominees for Clorox Co's board would try to sell the bleach maker if elected, with him backstopping an auction with a $10.26 billion bid.

The Bank of Italy warned on Tuesday that government plans to cut debt were at risk from weak growth as a lukewarm bond sale threatened to drag the euro zone's third-biggest economy back to the center of the debt crisis.

eBay Inc expects sales from greater China to grow 30-40 percent annually from about $4 billion in 2010, with the e-commerce giant seeking acquisition opportunities as part of efforts to expand its footprint in the fast-growing market.

Pockets of the fixed income and money markets are starting to reflect concern that recent volatility will extend past August, and that growing risk aversion may again roil banks and funding markets.

The U.S. Federal Reserve considered a range of actions to help a struggling economy at its August meeting, including the unprecedented step of tying the interest rate policy outlook to a specific unemployment level.

An adult actor who contracted HIV through unprotected sex shut down Los Angeles' adult film industry Monday night. An involuntary sexual health database was established less than a month ago in order to curtail the spread of sexually transmitted disease within the notoriously promiscuous community.

Creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc were granted approval on Tuesday to vote on the failed bank's $65 billion payback plan, clearing a major hurdle in the path to ending the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Warrior may have a hot young rising star in Tom Hardy, but Lionsgate knows that for the UFC drama to be a hit it will need strong word of mouth support.

Consumer confidence plunged in August to its lowest since the 2007-2009 recession, after a bruising battle over the budget slammed stock prices and pushed the nation to the brink of default.

Google Inc's board of directors faces a lawsuit for previously allowing Canadian pharmacies to advertise prescription drugs to U.S. customers via the Web search leader.

The real-life pursuits of the Hollywood star stand in stark contrast to one of her most enduring characters on the silver screen: the decidedly pro-business Darien Taylor in the movie “Wall Street.”

Nuclear energy could find a second life on the moon and Mars.

by Andrea JohnsonNEW YORK, Aug 30 - US insurer USAA Capital Corp on Tuesday sold $250 million of 3-year medium-term notes at the lowest ever coupon for an insurer and for a Financial Institutions Group deal, according to Thomson Reuters/IFR data.

The former finance chief of Beazer Homes USA has agreed to reimburse the company for over $1.4 million that he earned in bonus payments and stock sale profits when the Atlanta-based homebuilder was committing accounting fraud, the SEC announced on Tuesday.

A judge on Tuesday gave creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc the green light to vote on the failed bank's $65 billion payback proposal, clearing a major hurdle in Lehman's path toward ending the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Content delivery network provider Limelight Networks Inc sold its EyeWonder rich media advertising unit to DG Fastchannel Inc for about $66 million in cash, sending its shares up 8 percent in pre-market trading.

Texas Governor Rick Perry continues to win over supporters that Michele Bachmann's needs to court.

Starting Wednesday, three data points coming out this week on jobs in August will help Treasury traders predict the direction the economy could take, but they probably won't move prices drastically themselves, analysts said on Tuesday.

Exxon Mobil can look for oil in Russian territory in the Arctic Ocean under an agreement made Tuesday with Rosneft, the Russian state oil company. The deal is huge for Exxon Mobil, which beat BP for access to a region in which oil drilling is largely prohibited.

National Guard and firefighters rescued hundreds people from record flooding in New Jersey on Tuesday and Vermont planned to airlift food and water to inland towns cut off by Hurricane Irene after its paralyzing rampage through the U.S. northeast.

Wendy’s is moving its corporate offices to Dublin, Ohio, from Atlanta, where it has been headquartered since the merger with Arby’s in September 2008.

Local and state governments axed more than 200,000 jobs in 2010, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday that showed the growing threat of public employee layoffs to the economic recovery.

The Passaic River in northern New Jersey crested Tuesday morning and forced mandatory evacuations.