IBT Staff Reporter

Brangelina wedding up on the cards?

State Street Corp , the world's third-largest institutional investor, reported on Tuesday stronger second quarter earnings as increased demand for its record keeping and investment services boosted revenue.

A rescue package for Greece could involve a short-term default without disastrous repercussions for the euro zone, Austria's central bank governor said, the first sign of a crack in the European Central Bank's hard line.

Chelsea have signed Thibaut Courtois and are reportedly interested in capturing Arturo Vidal, but will face a challenge to sign Romelu Lukaku from Manchester City and Arsenal.

A tax on euro zone banks and cheaper, longer-dated official loans are the least risky way to provide extra funding for debt-stricken Greece, a confidential paper drafted ahead of a European summit showed on Tuesday.

Stock index futures rose on Tuesday, indicating a rebound from a selloff in the previous session as strong results from IBM encouraged investors worried about macroeconomic uncertainties.

An FCC filing from HTC reveals that the rumored 10-inch Puccini tablet will be coming on AT&T 4G network.

Has the new man in Elin's life been with Rachel as well?

The infamous LulzSec members have emerged once again and this time the victim is the website of The Sun, the UK's best-selling daily newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International.

On Tuesday, LulzSec targeted Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid The Sun, hacking the website and putting a fake article with the headline Media moguls body discovered, claiming Murdoch had been found dead in his garden.

The deal brings to an end the litigation between recording companies and Baidu over piracy charges

World stocks clawed back some recent losses and the euro steadied on Tuesday as investors paused from selling riskier assets in the face of the euro zone debt crisis and worries about Washington's debt ceiling fight.

When Goldman Sachs Group Inc reports second-quarter earnings on Tuesday, investors will be keen to hear how the largest U.S. investment bank plans to make up for fast-fading fixed-income trading revenue.

A new research done by Australian scientists has shown that early signs of Alzheimer's can be detected by a simple eye test as well as falls. This study can prove to be a breakthrough in non-invasive method of Alzheimer's detection.

A compilation of all the actresses who have played Catwoman down the ages.

Euro zone officials examined three broad options for securing the private sector's involvement in a second bailout package for Greece during a teleconference last week, a document obtained by Reuters showed.

For Bank of America Corp, the mortgage issues never seem to end, which is the chief worry for investors and analysts.

Samsung is preparing to release another iPhone 5 competitor at the IFA event in Germany in September, Yahoo Korea reported.

Euro zone officials have outlined three basic options for private sector involvement in the second bailout package for Greece in a teleconference on last week, a document prepared on July 16 showed.

Equities stabilized on Tuesday, helped by technology shares ahead of Apple's earnings, though the euro sagged, suggesting investors may keep cutting their exposure to risks in the face of default threats in the United States and Europe.

Equities stabilized on Tuesday, helped by technology shares ahead of Apple's earnings, though the euro sagged, suggesting investors may keep cutting their exposure to risks in the face of default threats in the United States and Europe.

Lady Gaga angered handicapped advocacy groups by performing in a mermaid suit in a wheelchair at a recent concert in Sydney. But it wasn't Gaga who first conceived of a wheelchair-bound fish-woman.

Novartis expects volume growth at its pharma unit to more than offset the impact of generic competition, the Swiss drugmaker said after posting a 27 percent rise in second-quarter sales.

Baidu, China's largest search engine, signed an agreement with a joint venture owned by Universal Music, Warner Music and Sony Music to distribute songs through its mp3 search service, ending years of legal wrangling over charges that Baidu abetted piracy.

While rumors about the release date of iPhone 5 are discussed largely, a new report from BGR suggests Apple will launch a low cost pre-paid iPhone this year.

China's tax revenues in the first half of the year surged 29.6 percent from a year earlier to 5 trillion yuan ($773 billion), underscoring the government's ability to deal with any fallout from piles of local government debt.

Emma Watson plans to return to Brown University next year to complete her education.

The number of Chinese Internet users hit 485 million at the end of June, with microblogging and group-buying posting the highest user growth rates, a Chinese government Internet statistical body said on Tuesday.

Computer hackers broke into the website of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling British tabloid and altered the front page to show a fake report about the media mogul's death.