IBT Staff Reporter

The speculation that Casey Anthony could be in Southern California is true, according to a television producer's claim that he met Anthony at an unnamed Palms Springs hotel.

NASA moved on to a new chapter in space exploration on Friday, a day after the end of its shuttle program, by announcing details of plans to determine if Mars has or ever had the ingredients for life.

American businesses, from Wall Street banks to major industrial corporations, are preparing contingency plans for a pair of once-unthinkable events: the United States defaulting on its debt and the loss of the nation's top AAA credit rating.

Apple is in the early stages of considering buying online video site Hulu, LLC according to reports.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that brine-injected meat is composed of 40 percent salt water and proposed a rule that would require companies to disclose this information. Currently, raw meat and poultry products that contain added solutions such as water, teriyaki sauce, salt, or a mixture thereof may have the same name on their labels as products that do not contain added solutions, said a USDA statement Friday.

Verizon Communications may have the iPhone, but the blockbuster smartphone has yet to pay off in its battle against AT&T Inc.

It's not an easy job to get wine into a bottle. Yet as one Australian vintner was told in a difficult phone call, that hard work can quickly be undone by a malfunction.

Comic book legend Stan Lee on Friday revealed details of his new web-based, digital series The Seekers, saying it is set in modern times on an Earth in danger of imminent destruction.

Apple has perfected the art of maintaining silence over product release dates even when it is in duress from guessed dates provided by media and analysts who toy with customer expectations.

Reasons why merely comparing iPhone on the basis of specifications with Android superphones is myopic.

Russia, which boycotted the Nobel ceremony on Friday, suggested that the Norwegian Committee should award a peace prize to Julian Assange. In an unusual move, Moscow called upon Rights group to rally support for the whistle-blower. Meanwhile, snubbing the communist China, the Nobel Prize committee has called for the immediate release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

A bomb rocked downtown Oslo Friday and a gunman opened fire on a children's camp run by Norway's Labor Party. At least seventeen people were killed in the attacks.

Steven Spielberg on Friday announced at Comic-Con that Jurassic Park 4 could be ready in the next two or three years,

Thomson Reuters Corp said five more senior executives are leaving its Markets division in addition to its head Devin Wenig.

European astronomers have found the most distant and earliest quasar to date.

An appeals court has rejected a new Securities and Exchange Commission rule intended to make it easier for shareholders to nominate directors to corporate boards.

New York City may be frying in near record temperatures but Wall Street has been feeling the heat for months. Wrangling over the debt ceiling and questions marks over corporate earnings mean markets are unlikely to get a break any time soon.

Raquel Borges embraces her paralyzed lion Ariel at the living room of veterinarian Pereira's home in Sao Paulo July 20, 2011.

Each month, a dozen executives of General Motors Co gather on the 39th floor of their Detroit headquarters to survey the auto industry, the U.S. economy and how they will meet demand from customers.

Tour de France defending champion Alberto Contador, punched a fan on the climb to Alpe d' Huez, a day after losing significant time on the Galibier climb and the same day he lost the climb to Frenchman Pierre Rolland.

Facebook Inc won a dismissal of a second lawsuit by the Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss seeking to boost their $65 million settlement with the company and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

A hacker has breached several government, military and educational websites from across the globe, and put on sale the admin access to high-profile dot-gov, dot-mil, and dot-edu sites.

A massive search effort for the missing mother of triplets that disappeared almost two months ago took place Saturday. More than 200 people searched for 39-year-old Jacque Waller, who disappeared near her estranged husband's Jackson home. Her car was abandoned on Interstate 55 with a flat tire.

Investors poured into tech shares on Friday as promising chipmaker earnings and optimism that a solution was on the horizon for the U.S. debt stalemate triggered a move into growth-oriented shares.

The first trailer for the The Dark Knight Rises has been released.

Anonymous hackers say they've launched another attack, this time against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Anonymous hackers claim to have launched another attack. This time they've targeted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

A massive bombing attack has hit government buildings in central Oslo on Friday.

Anonymous hackers claim to have launched another attack. This time they've targeted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).