IBT Staff Reporter

Jennifer Lopez is returning to the judge?s chair in American Idol for the upcoming season with a huge raise to $20 million.

The former estate of legendary actress Katharine Hepburn? who died in 2003, is up for sale with a $28 million asking price.

Tea Party conservatives scored their biggest political triumph with a debt-ceiling deal that cuts federal spending, but their hardline tactics could risk a voter backlash in the 2012 elections.

Jennifer Lopez's divorce from Marc Anthony isn't stopping her from continuing her life; the actress says she feels 'strong.'

Italian authorities will meet on Tuesday to discuss growing market turmoil that has sent borrowing costs spiraling to dangerous levels and threatened to drag Italy into full-scale crisis.

Following Prince William and Kate Middleton's high-profile wedding on April 29, the British royal member Princess Zara Philips, the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, and Mike Tindall, captain of England?s rugby team, emerged as husband and wife, after tying the knot on July 30th in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Researchers in Japan unveiled a robot on Tuesday that can lift a patient weighing up to 80 kg (176 lbs) off the floor and onto a wheelchair, an innovation they say will free healthcare workers from the back-breaking task.

A Michigan public school teacher caught with pornography on his school issued laptop allegedly used the machine to search for braless photo of Miley Cyrus, according to an FBI search warrant affidavit.

Rumors spread like wild fire over this past weekend suggesting that teen power couple Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez experienced a break up.

British police arrested a former senior figure at Rupert Murdoch's News International group on Tuesday as part of their probe into phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid, media reports said.

While U.S. customers are still waiting for the upcoming iPhone 5 this fall, various types of fake iPhone 5 devices have been on sale in Chinese online store and offline markets. The Fake iPhone 5 is sold at $108 and features a similar design following the rumor of iPhone 5 specs. It is encased in a plastic body, two LED flash cameras and a label saying it has 64GB of storage. Also the fake device runs a JAVA-based OS, plays MP3?s and connects via WiFi.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, along with public health officials in many states and the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s Food Safety and Inspection Service are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella poisoning linked to ground turkey. One person has died from the outbreak and more than 75 have been sickened.

Stocks declined on Tuesday, putting the S&P 500 on track for its longest down streak since October 2008, on worries over the United States' debt and economic outlook.

The European Commission is now investigating a total of nine antitrust complaints against Internet search engine giant Google, two sources said on Tuesday.

British police arrested a former senior figure at Rupert Murdoch's News International group on Tuesday, the latest high-profile case by detectives investigating the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World tabloid.

Apple has launched iCloud for programmers, but the consumer version should launch in the Fall.

The defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants suffered a double injury blow on Monday with the loss of two key players set to hamper the team's chances of a title repeat.

NEW YORK For an extra $25 per year, fans of Electronic Arts sports titles will be able to download video games three days before they hit stores, a move that should boost EA's digital sales.

Congress was poised on Tuesday to grant final approval to a deficit-cutting package that will avert a debt default but may not be enough to prevent a damaging downgrade of the top-notch American credit rating.

No need to feel ashamed about having a glass of wine during dinner. While physicians deem red wine to be healthy for the heart, a recent study from the University of Barcelona and the Spanish National Research Council concludes that a compound found in grapes or grape derivatives may actually protect skin cells from skin-damaging ultraviolet radiation.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets a clear image of the Vesta asteroid.

Stocks fell on Tuesday as investors fretted about a possible credit downgrade amid concerns that economic growth could remain subdued.

Heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio struck gold at the box office last year, making him the highest-paid actor in Hollywood in 2010, according to Forbes.

"Finally, Skype for iPad is now available," tweeted Skype Tuesday morning, after the company's mysterious conduct of releasing and quickly pulling its "Skype for iPad" app on Monday.Now Skype for iPad has been re-added to the App Store, and hopefully will stay there permanently this time.

Broadband speeds are now significantly closer to what Internet service providers advertise than they were in 2009, a study to be released by U.S. communications regulators on Tuesday found.

Consumer spending unexpectedly fell in June to post the first decline in nearly two years as incomes barely rose, a government report showed, suggesting economic growth could remain subdued in the third quarter.

Anders Behring Breivik, the man who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway has made a list of "unrealistic, far, far from the real world" demands, his lawyer said. Anders Behring Breivik said that he wanted the government to resign and for Japanese specialists to assess his mental health, Nowegian lawyer Geir Lippestad told reporters.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he is not sure whether the bitterly fought debt agreement to be considered Tuesday by the Senate will avoid a downgrade of the U.S. top-tier credit rating.

Representative Gabrielle Giffords returned to the U.S. House on Monday night for the first time since an assassination attempt, drawing thunderous applause in a rare moment of unity during a contentious vote to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.