IBT Staff Reporter

Reality star Kim Kardashian married basketball player Kris Humphries on Saturday in a lavish made-for-TV wedding following a whirlwind courtship.

Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering after being shot in the head during the January shooting rampage in Tucson, has been given the details of those who died in the shooting, her spokesman said.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Wednesday approved the Roche-manufactured drug Zelboraf, for the first-line treatment of both metastatic and unresectable types of melanoma, reportedly the most dangerous type of skin cancer.

For the first time, NASA researchers have mapped the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica.

The head of French bank Societe Generale said in a newspaper interview released on Saturday that markets could remain nervous until third-quarter earnings are published at the end of October.

About 45,000 Verizon Communications employees are set to end a two-week strike and return to work by Tuesday after the telephone company and unions said they reached an agreement to resume bargaining.

In the face of a lawsuit, a Missouri state senator defended on Saturday a new state law that will prohibit teachers from communicating privately with students over the Internet.

Germany on Saturday rebuffed renewed calls that euro zone countries should issue joint euro-denominated bonds and have a joint finance minister, arguing that would only be possible if fiscal policy were collective already.

Chris Drury retired from the National Hockey League (NHL) on Friday after a 12-season career where he earned a reputation as a solid two-way player and won a Stanley Cup championship.

Germany's SAP , the world's biggest maker of business software, said confidence among its clients in no way reflected reported fears of a looming economic downturn.

A federal judge in Manhattan overseeing a $1 billion suit against the owners of the New York Mets baseball team by the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's firm said on Friday he would decide whether to allow the case to go forward by the end of September.

One or more healthy lifestyles and behaviors may postpone mortality, says researchers who analyzed data from a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III Mortality Study, a mortality survey published online by the American Journal of Public Health.

Tolls on major New York City crossings and commuter train fares will rise starting in September under a plan approved on Friday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, but increases will be smaller than first proposed by the agency.

Scientists from the University of Birmingham found that a modified form of Ecstasy (MDMA) could be used in treating myeloma, lymphoma, and leukemia, after scientists modified the drug to increase its tumour-killing properties.

Anderson Cooper, whose Wednesday night laughing mess over his own puns over French actor Gerald Depardieu's incontinence went viral on the Internet, has put himself on RidicuList the next day.

Humans aren't just threatening the earthly inhabitants, but we may have become a threat to the entire universe, possibly prompting aliens to destroy humanity in order to end global warming.

Gold buyers in India, the world's largest consumer of the yellow metal, are investing in it on expectations prices may rise, but imports are likely to fall as limited budgets buy less gold, the head of India's biggest importing bank told Reuters on Saturday.

Multiple UFOs were spotted and filmed in a video across the sky over a motorway near Stansted Airport in Essex, England. The location of the allged UFO discovery is close to where BBC Radio 5 Live sports journalist Mike Sewell told listeners he saw a disc-shaped aircraft just five days later.

A European finance minister with sway over member states' taxes and budgets is needed to lead the euro zone out of its debt crisis, says the Chief Executive of Germany's second-largest lender, Commerzbank.

Pastor Zachery Tims' funeral arrangements are set for Saturday 11 a.m., at First Baptist church of Orlando, but the ceremony will be held privately and will not stream live online.

The overall economy may be struggling against a double-dip recession but in farm country the boom times have rarely been better.

Planking, a game between friends to have fun that involves simply lying down with face and feet straight down and arm by side, is viral on the Internet.

An increase in the number of people playing free games is providing the gaming industry with an additional source of revenue as gamers shell out millions for virtual goods and add-ons.

Just a day after, HP announced that it would discontinue with the webOS smartphone and tablet business, the company is selling its Wi-Fi only HP Touchpad 16 GB for $99 and 32 GB version for $149.

Big spending Liverpool travel to the Emirates Stadium to face big sellers Arsenal in Saturday's early kick-off, in what promises to be an early-season Premiership blockbuster.

While rumors are still in the air about the release date of iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S II is yet to come to the U.S market, Microsoft comes with a “Hey! We’re ahead of schedule!”

Pressure on Germany and France to take radical action on the euro zone debt crisis mounted on Friday, as financial markets sagged further and Belgium added its support to calls for the region to issue debt jointly.

The German State of Schleswig-Holstein has imposed a ban on clicking the Facebook “Like” button and has said state institutions should remove it from their Web sites or face a fine.

Hearing on Microsoft’s claims that the Google’s Android run devices infringed on its patents will begin at the U.S. International Trade Commission will begin on Monday.