IBT Staff Reporter

Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion is all about owning a slew of patents to defend itself against its rivals -- Microsoft and Apple -- in the legal arena where patent licensing fees can be negotiated through lawsuits and countersuits.

Two men were shot in the parking lot of San Francisco's Candlestick Park and a third was brutally assaulted inside the stadium after a preseason National Football League game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders, police said on Sunday.

Brent crude dropped more than $3 on Monday to below $106 a barrel, while U.S. oil fell more than a dollar to below $82, on the potential for a resumption of exports from OPEC-member Libya as a six-month civil war there appeared close to an end.

World stocks fell toward a recent 11-month low on Monday while the euro and oil prices slipped as concerns about a global economic downturn prompted investors to sell risky assets.

Grieving parents, students and friends gathered at Mainland Regional High School in southern New Jersey on Sunday evening to mourn the deaths of four high school football players in a car crash.

European stocks extended four weeks of losses on Monday, tracking jittery Asian shares lower, while gold shot to new highs as investors worried about the sluggish U.S. economic outlook and Europe's festering debt crisis.

European stocks extended four weeks of losses on Monday, tracking jittery Asian shares lower, while gold shot to new highs as investors worried about the sluggish U.S. economic outlook and Europe's festering debt crisis.

It's not hard to come up with reasons for the euro zone's exasperating inability to get a grip on its debt crisis.

European Central Bank Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny is concerned that euro zone countries will not push through parliamentary approval of changes to their EFSF bailout fund as quickly as planned, an Austrian magazine quoted him as saying.

European stocks looked set to extend four weeks of losses Monday, tracking jittery Asian shares lower, while gold shot to new highs as investors worried about the sluggish U.S. economic outlook and Europe's festering debt crisis.

European stocks looked set to extend four weeks of losses on Monday, tracking jittery Asian shares lower, while gold shot to new highs as investors worried about the sluggish U.S. economic outlook and Europe's festering debt crisis.

Jittery Asian stocks surrendered early gains and turned lower on Monday, adding to last week's steep losses, while gold shot to new highs as investors worried about the sluggish U.S. economic outlook and Europe's festering debt crisis.

The union representing 62,000 grocery workers in southern California has received the go-ahead from members to call a strike if an acceptable contract deal cannot be reached with Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons supermarkets, officials said on Sunday.

Asian stocks turned positive on Monday, recovering a small portion of last week's steep losses, while gold shot to new highs as investors worried about the sluggish U.S. economic outlook and Europe's debt crisis.

The rupee is expected to inch up in early trade on Monday, tracking firm Asian peers, with the performance of local shares seen providing further direction during the day.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he expects to be judged in the 2012 election over his governance of the American economy, which he said was still not growing fast enough.

Asian stocks turned positive on Monday, recovering a small portion of last week's steep losses, while gold shot to new highs as investors worried about the sluggish U.S. economic outlook and Europe's debt crisis.

Nearly 300 students from Irene-Wakonda School District in southeastern South Dakota will no longer have Friday classes, as the schools here have adopted a four-day school week for reducing costs and dealing with state budget cuts to education.

Anna Hazare whose hunger strike has galvanised millions to hold the biggest protests in decades appeared on Sunday ready to end a standoff with the government, saying he was open to dialogue.

Researchers said that they have discovered how a human egg captures a human sperm for fertilization. The discovery may be the breakthrough that infertile couples have been searching for.

A study that evaluates sci-fi scenarios for extraterrestrial encounters, published in the journal Acta Astronautica, said that E.T. could decide whether we're a threat to intergalactic order and may try to kill us. At the heart of these scenarios is the possibility that intrinsic value may be more efficiently produced in our absence, the researchers wrote.

A microbial bacteria fossil may be proof of life before oxygen on Earth 3.4 billion years ago. The Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia was once a beach but is now more than 100 Km inland and houses stromatolites, which have been preserved there.

Seems like former Golden Girls actress Betty White really does have the Midas touch.

For about two dozen documentary filmmakers, the road to Oscar just might begin in a small West Hollywood multiplex and a downtown New York arthouse.

More misfortune has befallen the Real Housewives franchise.

Ray Bradbury's classic American novel Dandelion Wine is coming to the movies.

Ryan Reynolds' and Allan Loeb's new TV production company, DarkFire, has sold its first project -- a single-camera comedy -- to Fox.

When news came that the West Memphis Three would be freed on Friday, documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger and his collaborator Bruce Sinofsky dropped everything and flew down to Arkansas.

Atom Egoyan, the Egyptian-born director, plans to start shooting a movie based on convicted murderers the West Memphis Three - the subjects of the 1996 documentary Paradise Lost - in early spring 2012, TheWrap has confirmed.