IBT Staff Reporter

Shares of Verizon Communications were down 2.1 percent in early trading on Monday, a day after nearly half of its wireline business employees went on strike.

Revelers dressed in fur and face paint came out to re-enact Viking battles, remember the Viking influences on Spain, and drink lots of wine out of large horns!

Stink bugs did not get their names for no reason - they emit an unbearable smell similar to that of rotting garbage when squashed. And now these stink bugs, which caused $37 million worth of damage last year, are returning with a mission to invade, after waking up from hibernation.

Rapper Kanye West compares his reception to Adolf Hitler's.

Stocks plunged on Monday, with the S&P down more than 6 percent for its largest drop in nearly three years on rising fears of a recession exacerbated by the United States' loss of its triple-A credit rating.

U.S. stocks plunged on Monday and investors fled to the safety of gold and bonds after the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating by Standard & Poor's stoked fears the United States is slipping into recession.

The latest in a series of patent lawsuit against Apple has to do with the speed booting method of Mac OS X.Two weeks ago, Operating Systems Solutions, a company whose identity remains unknown, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the tech giant for Mac OS X startup process.

The American people just love their cell phones. According to a new survey from Telenav, a mobile applications company, one-third of Americans would rather do without sex than without their cell phone.

Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis believed Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination of her husband, according to tapes recorded by the former first lady just months after President John F. Kennedy's death, the Daily Mail reported.

The manufacturers set aside their differences and work together on 3D glasses for the good of the industry.

The growth of Google+ since its launch a month ago has been breathtaking. Swallowing up 20 million users in 3 weeks from the launch, Google's new social media site has now reportedly reached 2 5 million.

Wall Street underestimated the effect of cuts in government spending on the networking industry and may have to curtail its expectations again with growing fears of a global economic slowdown.

According to tapes recorded by Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, she believed Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.

Raymond Johnson, 26, was diagnosed with breast cancer about a month ago, after pain from a lump in his chest sent him to the emergency room, and then denied treatment. However, Johnson's job of laying tile down does not make enough to pay for treatment, amounting in $10,000 of medical costs.

Standard & Poor's cut its ratings outlook on Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway to negative from stable on Monday, part of a broad action on 10 insurers linked to last Friday's downgrade of the United States credit rating.

Investors are looking to a meeting of the Federal Reserve on Tuesday for signs of further support for reeling financial markets and the economy after the European Central Bank stepped in to buy Italian and Spanish government bonds in the latest attempt to deal with the euro zone debt crisis.

Oil plunged 6 percent on Monday, crashing below technical support levels as the reduction of the United States's top-tier credit rating hammered markets and stoked concerns of an economic slowdown.

Experts in food science at the University of Texas in Austin conducted tests of food temperature in more than 700 packed lunches of children ages three to five who attended day care. In 98 percent of the lunches, the food was not at the desired temperature for safe eating. These results appear in the current issue of the journal of Pediatrics.

U.S. airlines have begun rolling back fare increases initiated last month when a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration halted the collection of certain ticket taxes and allowed carriers to raise base fares without increasing prices paid for tickets.

Bank of America Corp was sued by American International Group Inc for more than $10 billion over an alleged massive fraud on mortgage debt, causing the bank's shares to tumble 22.8 percent amid worries it cannot manage a deepening litigation morass.

Stocks extended losses in heavy volume on Monday, with the S&P 500 down more than 6 percent, in the first session since Standard & Poor's cut the United States' top-tier AAA credit rating.

U.S. stocks plunged on Monday as investors fled to the safety of gold and bonds the first trading day after Standard & Poor's downgraded the United States.

Scientists have long suspected icebergs to have a link with earthquakes. Just 18 hours after the tsunami, a foot-high wave struck the ice shelf in Antarctica and broke off giant pieces. The Sulzberger ice shelf is a sheet of ice 260 feet thick, and extends towards New Zealand.

The fallout from Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States pushed world stocks to their lowest level in nearly a year on Monday and drove investors to the safety of gold and bonds.

While news of missing children seems to be unceasing and often end in the worst tragedy, the FBI rolled out its first mobile application this past weekend, aiming to be the aid of parents before and when children go missing.

Since the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, the market share of Windows-powered smartphones has fallen 38 percent, something unusual to happen following the debut of a new product.

From the United States and Italy to Japan and Greece, slow growth is hobbling the capacity of governments to service their debts, spooking markets and sapping confidence and so further darkening the economic outlook.

The stock market today show sharp drops, following a downgrade by S&P from a stellar AAA to AA+, including all sectors in the S&P 500. On the other hand, investors are rushing into buying bonds rather than stock.

France and Britain are most vulnerable within Europe to a rating review following the U.S. downgrade, with anemic growth and hefty borrowing placing them among the shakiest of the world's triple-A rated lenders.