IBT Staff Reporter

The pace of growth in the services sector ticked down unexpectedly in July to the lowest level since February 2010, while the number of jobs created by the private sector also slowed, separate reports showed on Wednesday.

People who live long maybe simply be genetically gifted, a new study revealed. The study found that many nonagenarians smoke and don't exercise. The study overwhelmingly suggested that long life is enabled by genetic factors, not lifestyle choices,

The Sydney teenage girl named Madeleine Pulver has been reported to be safe and freed from the bomb device attached to her for 10 hours. A bomb collar device was attached onto her by an unidentified man who broke into her family's mansion. He forcibly locked the collar around her neck then fled the scene, allow the teenager to call police.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft snapped photos of the image and shows the stark difference between Vesta's day and night.

Actor James Earl Jones will receive an honorary Oscar this year and Oprah Winfrey will be presented with a humanitarian award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.

Four Latin jazz artists are suing the organizers of the Grammy Awards, alleging the elimination of their category from next year's competition has caused them irreparable harm.

Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world.

State parks, recreational areas and reserves around the United States are closing their doors as severe budget cuts leave little room for operational costs.

There is newfound media interest in the D.B. Cooper case as the FBI follow a "promising" lead to solve the 40-year mystery of the hijacker's true identity once and for all.

Private employers added 114,000 jobs in July, topping economists' expectations, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.

An 18 year old girl was forced to wear an elaborate and sophisticated bomb device around her neck after an assailant broke into the teenager's home. Police spent the next 10 hours working to free the Australian teen from the live device preventing detonation and perhaps saving hundreds of lives in the wealthy Sydney town.

Internet explorer users may not be dumber after all as a "study" from a research company named AptiQuant may have been an elaborate hoax.

Stocks fell on Wednesday, and the S&P 500 hit a new low for the year as the latest data triggered more pessimism about the economy's outlook.

A crop circle is a flattening of a crop, and another mysterious one has been found in England.

Wall Street stocks tumbled on Wednesday with the S&P falling to a new low for the year after another round of soft economic data.

New orders received by factories fell in June, pulled down by weak demand for transportation equipment, government data showed on Wednesday.

The number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms rose to a 16-month high in July as sectors which had been seeing fairly few layoffs unexpectedly bled jobs, a report on Wednesday showed.

As the FAA shuts down, ticket holders and prospective flyers could experience cheaper flights- for now.

Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock trigger dating rumors.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) continues to investigate the outbreak of Salmonella poisoning that spread across 26 states linked to ground turkey, as a new strain of salmonella highly resistant to the antibiotic Ciprofloxacin surfaces, scientists say.

Time Warner Inc posted better-than-expected quarterly results, helped by stronger advertising, and ratcheted up its full-year outlook.

The Swiss National Bank announced a shock cut in interest rates and threatened more action to cap a soaring Swiss franc, but the impact was expected to be short-lived given the currency's safe-haven appeal amid mounting concerns about global growth.

It was recently discovered that Alfred Hitchcock's earliest film has been found in New Zealand. It was produced in 1923 and called "The White Shadow." Hitchcock has credits as the assistant director, art director, editor, and writer of the film. His directorial debut would come two years later at age 25 on "The Pleasure Garden." Here are some of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films! Quotes below are from Hitchcock taken from Francois Truffaut's book of interviews.

A new Android trojan is in town, and it can steal your account passwords and social security numbers by recording your phone conversations, according to a report by CA Technologies' Dinesh Venkatesan. Here are five ways to stay safe.

NASA's Juno spacecraft will explore the magnetic field of Jupiter.

A comparison between the all-new BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860, which is an all-touch phone, with Samsung Galaxy S2 to gauge as to whether RIM has done enough to stay in the smartphone race.

A five-year campaign compromised networks in 72 major organizations around the world, including several governments, ASEAN, IOC and the world anti-doping agency. Government agencies in India, South Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S. were attacked, plus high-profile targets like the International Olympic Committee.

The pace of growth in the services sector ticked down unexpectedly in July to the lowest level since February 2010, while the number of jobs created by the private sector also slowed, separate reports showed on Wednesday.

Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world.