IBT Staff Reporter

A NY auto mechanic survived for nearly 18 hours adrift Lake Huron without a life jacket after his small two-seat Cessna crashed 17 miles from the Michigan shoreline.

comScore Media Metrix released its list of top 50 web properties for June with Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft sites assuming top positions. However social networking sites like Facebook, online luxury magazines like Glam Media, sports and entertainment sites like Turner Digital and Viacom seem to be gaining in popularity. American web users show a marked trend towards networking, shopping, sports and entertainment.

French and Italian oil majors Total SA and Eni SpA reported lower second-quarter profits on Friday due to a weak dollar and the fighting in Libya which shut down fields.

Actor Christopher ?Chip? Mayer, who played Vance Duke on The Dukes Of Hazzard TV show, died July 23 in Sherman Oaks. He was 57.

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France's Total posted lower quarterly earnings on Friday as higher crude prices failed to make up for unfavorable exchange rates, production losses in the North Sea and Libya, and a weak refining business.

German auto parts and tire maker Continental AG raised its full-year sales forecast on Friday as price increases helped it offset a sharp rise in raw material costs.

Stock index futures pointed to a weaker opening for equities on Wall Street on Friday after U.S. lawmakers delayed a vote on a Republican proposal to raise the U.S. government's debt limit.

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Libyan Eman al-Obeidy, the alleged rape victim who grabbed worldwide media attention on March 26 after accusing Muammar Gaddafi's forces of gang-raping her, has come to the United States to stay for good.

Samsung Electronics Co is relying on the smartphone market to boost group profits after its flat screen unit reported a second quarter of losses and the mainstay chip business struggled.

Japan's biggest banks reported lackluster quarterly lending activity in the earthquake-ravaged economy, raising pressure on them to take more risks and find revenue sources overseas.

Nintendo Co Ltd's shares plunged as much as 20 percent after the company swung to a quarterly loss and slashed its annual profit target, hit by anemic sales of its five-month-old 3D capable games device.

Earlier this month, Glee creator Ryan Murphy revealed that three characters from the serial, Lea Michele , Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith would be leaving Glee after Season 3, only to have fellow executive producer, Brad Falchuk deny the same at the ComicCon.

Contrasting reports have emerged on Arsenal's pursuit of Valencia star Juan Mata.

French tire manufacturer Michelin hiked its 2011 sales volume target after a rise in sales and profitability in the first half, and said its price increases were offsetting raw material price rises. The group said it would target a 2011 increase in sales volumes of about 8 percent, versus an earlier target of at least 6.5 percent, with market growth in the second half set to return...

A new comic based on Prince Harry's life will be released in August.

All over the world Germany has been cited as the European country where elderly care is been taken very seriously.

As Norwegian police ended on Thursday a six-day search for bodies on Utoya island, they were increasingly convinced that Anders Behring Breivik alone was responsible for the terror attacks, leaving 76 dead. As a week has passed after the worst nightmare in the history of Norway since World War II, heartwrenching stories of victims are shared by friends and family of the victims.

South Korea forecasts even more rain as emergency workers are still entrenched in a battle against floods and landslides that have killed at least 41 people.

The Green Bay team was just coming off a Super Bowl win over the Pittsburgh Steelers when the contract dispute between National Football League owners and players resulted in a lockout, putting the start of the next season in question.

Chad Ochocinco was traded off from the Cincinnati Bengals to the New England Patriots, the National Football League's website reported on Thursday.

Nintendo Co Ltd's shares plunged on Friday, wiping off as much as $5 billion of the videogame maker's market value, after it slashed its full-year profit forecast to the lowest level in 27 years.

Japan on Friday escalated its warning to financial markets against testing the yen's upside further, with the finance ministry signaling that Tokyo may not wait for too long with action if the currency keeps climbing.

Astronomers discovered a twisted ring of gas that looks like an "infinity symbol", stretching past 600 light-years across the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

BSkyB will spend 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) to placate investors who lost out after News Corp bowed to public fury over a hacking scandal and dropped a bid to take full control of the satellite broadcaster.

Video technology start-up Vidyo unveiled on Friday a deal to supply its software to Ricoh's <7752.T> new small videoconferencing offering, which it expects to significantly disrupt the $3 billion equipment market.

European aerospace and defense group EADS forecast a significant improvement in operating profit next year after stable earnings this year as a pickup in demand leads to a surge in orders for Airbus planes.

Arsenal fans will be cautiously optimistic about their fortunes for next season, if they are the sort of people who believe daily rumours.