IBT Staff Reporter

French military barracks will be converted to mosques.

Google rolled out its Photovine app on iTunes Wednesday, spreading its wings in the social networking market through this free photo sharing app.

Nigeria Wednesday launched two satellites, NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X spacecraft, which have a variety of applications, including the monitoring of disaster-prone areas, into orbit from a launch pad based in Russia.

A New York City education panel should delay voting on a $120 million contract for Verizon Communications Inc until the telecommunications company settles a strike by 45,000 of its workers in a Northeast unit, the city comptroller said on Wednesday.

Dell Inc's shares fell 9 percent on Wednesday, a day after weak technology spending forced the world's second-largest PC maker to slash its full-year revenue forecast.

New evidence of hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World points to a four-year cover-up by the company, and intensifies focus on Prime Minister David Cameron's judgment in hiring an ex-editor who may now face criminal prosecution.

An Iraqi man is suing the country's leaders to demand his fair share of the Arab state's oil wealth.

Stocks slipped on Wednesday, reversing gains of more than 1 percent, as weak results from Dell dragged down the largest U.S. personal computer makers and offset recent upbeat earnings and outlooks from retailers, including Target Corp .

The White House on Wednesday said President Barack Obama would unveil fresh ideas to jump-start the economy and cut deficits, but details offered so far appeared to be a compilation of old proposals.

Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch saw its stock price drop nearly 10 percent Wednesday after it asked Michael Sorrentino, "The Situation," of "The Jersey Shore" not to wear its clothes. This was the first trading session after the company publicly offended the young man by offering him and his co-stars "substantial payment" to stop wearing Abercrombie & Fitch clothes.

When the leaders of the world's two biggest economies meet in Hawaii three months from now, U.S. President Barack Obama will still be able to brag to Chinese President Hu Jintao that the United States has more big companies than any other nation on the planet.

According to a new analysis of lunar rocks, the Moon may turn out to be 4.36 billion years old, up to 200 million years younger than previously thought.

A games company is accusing Zynga of infringing its patents and asking that it shut down its most popular games for the Facebook social network, including FarmVille and Mafia Wars.

Two former employees of the celebrity-owned Shin BBQ are suing the Hollywood restaurant, which is backed by several stars of the big and small screen. They are accusing the restaurant of failing to pay overtime, failing to pay for rest periods, failing to pay for meal periods and failing to pay minimum wage, as well as for unfair competition and violating the fair labor standards act.

He made his name on the quirky fast food documentary "Super Size Me," and recently peered inside the wacky world of product placement in movies.

Wholesale gasoline differentials jumped 9 cents on Wednesday after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a 1.78-million-barrel draw last week on West Coast gasoline stocks, traders said.

A giant South American rodent weighing at least 100 pounds (45 kgs) was spotted at a waste-water treatment facility in California recently before disappearing in the brush, according to a wildlife official.

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc said on Wednesday that William R. Hambrecht is leaving its board of directors immediately.

The Federal Reserve has no business easing monetary policy further when the real problem facing the economy is fiscal mismanagement in Washington, a top Fed official said on Wednesday.

For the second time, rumors on Twitter suggested that martial arts actor Jackie Chan is dead.

Core producer prices rose at their fastest pace in six months in July on strong tobacco and light truck costs, though weak domestic demand was seen keeping inflation pressures under control.

After a scintillating first leg, Real Madrid and Barcelona will fight out the second leg at the Camp Nou in a bid to claim the Spanish Super Cup.

Reports suggest that a "brain-eating" amoeba called Naegleria fowleri has claimed yet another life in the United States, this time a nine-year-old boy in Virginia.

Madrid police have arrested a Mexican chemistry student who allegedly planned to gas anti-Pope protesters at the 2011 World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain

Scientists dubbed a newly discovered species of eel living in an underwater cave off the Republic of Palau in the Pacific Ocean as a 'living fossil' because of its similarity to the first eels that swam about 200 million years ago.

British business software company Sage Group Plc has been picked as preferred bidder in the race to buy Australian peer MYOB Ltd, people familiar with matter said Wednesday.

New research from Global Web Index shows sharp declines among Facebook users in some of the world's biggest markets including the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Tough prison sentences such as four years for trying to organize a riot via Facebook have triggered alarm in Britain that the government's crackdown over last week's unrest may be too harsh.

Hazare, whose arrest a day earlier sparked protests across the country, rejected the government's offer for his release, choosing to remain in prison until he is permitted to go on a hunger strike.