IBT Staff Reporter

The main stage collapsed at Ottawa's Bluesfest Sunday during a Cheap Trick performance after a severe thunderstorm struck the area. It was not raining at the time.

Jul 17, 2011

Borders Group Inc inched closer to liquidation on Sunday after a bidding deadline passed without offers, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Jul 17, 2011

Japan equalized twice before taking charge of a shootout to triumph in their Fifa Women's World Cup campaign against traditional superpowers - the United States - in the final.

Jul 17, 2011

Allegations of fraud and accounting irregularities at Chinese companies are likely to continue for at least the near term and the accusations may hamper the firms' access to funds regardless of the claims' merit, Fitch Ratings said.

Jul 17, 2011

Boutique financial advisory firm Greenhill & Co posted better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Sunday, rushing the results out after reports on departures at the firm hit the company's stock.

Jul 17, 2011

Brazil went crashing out of the Copa America 2011 after failing to find the net in a dismal shootout against Paraguay, who made it into the semi-finals.

Jul 17, 2011

The Dark Knight Rises Trailer 'Copyright Infringement': Warner Brothers

Jul 17, 2011

Older people whose brain scans detected signs of brain amyloid but were otherwise healthy had a doubled risk of falling as people without brain amyloid, said a study at the Alzheimer's Association's annual International Conference in Paris Sunday. Brain amyloid foreshadows Alzheimier's disease.

Jul 17, 2011

Reinsurer Validus Holdings Ltd defended its $3.25 billion bid for Transatlantic Holdings Inc , saying a deal would create more than $1 billion of earnings power that it could put toward more share repurchases.

Jul 17, 2011

Treasury bonds could soon lose the privilege of being the only debt securities in the world whose value actually rises on the threat of a ratings downgrade.

Jul 17, 2011

Japan won the Women's World Cup in stunning fashion on Sunday, outshooting the US Women 3-1 on penalty kicks, after a two surprising comebacks.

Jul 17, 2011

The Senate will likely begin consideration this week of a bipartisan fallback plan to avert an unprecedented U.S. default of its debt, senior Democratic aides said on Sunday.

Jul 17, 2011

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson resigned on Sunday following criticism of the handling by police of a phone hacking scandal that has rocked British politics and shaken Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media empire.

Jul 17, 2011

Banks that scraped through the European Union's stress test of 90 lenders will start feeling the heat Monday from investors to beef up capital buffers.

Jul 17, 2011

David Beckham took to Facebook on Sunday to introduce to the world his new baby daughter, Harper Seven Beckham, the latest addition to his growing brood.

Jul 17, 2011

Ivanka Trump gave birth this morning to a baby girl. Ivanka married Jared Kushner in October of 2009 and the little girl is their first child.

Jul 17, 2011

Britain's top police chief resigned and the former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper business was arrested on Sunday over a phone-hacking scandal that is lapping at Prime Minister David Cameron's door.

Jul 17, 2011

Casey Anthony was released from prison at 12:09 a.m. Sunday. Television footage showed that Anthony walked out through the front entrance of the jail.

Jul 17, 2011

Women's World Cup Final: Japan takes the prize.

Jul 17, 2011

Britain's top police chief resigned and the former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper business was arrested on Sunday over a phone-hacking scandal that is lapping at Prime Minister David Cameron's door.

Jul 17, 2011

A special committee formed to oversee the integrity of Dow Jones & Co under parent News Corp is very concerned about the British phone hacking scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Jul 17, 2011

Mac OS X Lion 10.7 is coming this July.

Jul 17, 2011

Emergency rooms have been seeing a whole new kind of addict lately. Abusers of bath salts become agitated, violent, and psychotic and require, as one might expect, a whole new kind of care.

Jul 17, 2011

Soccer fans from all of the world will focus on Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday July 17 to watch the final match of the women’s World Cup fought between U.S. and Japan.

Jul 17, 2011

The Google+ (or Google Plus) fan page on Facebook says Facebook bans Google Plus Sponsored ads. A man recently ran an advertisement campaign for his Google+ profile and his account was suspended. Looks like facebook is scared to lose its throne - is Facebook really scared of Google+?

Jul 17, 2011

People are using Twitter to express racist thoughts on the Japanese.

Jul 17, 2011

,Britain's senior police chief, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson, resigned on Sunday over allegations that the police mishandled investigations of phone-hacking by the News of the World newspaper and took money from journalists.

Jul 17, 2011

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she was not aiming for a forced restructuring of Greek sovereign debt, but wanted private sector investors to make a major contribution to a voluntary scheme to rescue Greece.

Jul 17, 2011

Bath salts, laced with a dangerous chemical, are becoming the latest drug threat according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

Jul 17, 2011