IBT Staff Reporter

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.

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+?

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

,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.

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.

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

Britain's top police chief resigned and the former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper business was arrested Sunday over a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked pillars of the establishment.

Banks are making progress in talks to contribute to the rescue package for Greece, the lobby group heading the private sector's efforts said on Sunday.

Casey Anthony released from jail where she faces a hostile crowd.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick, in remarks released Sunday, said it was time for countries to get out of their defensive positions on trade and push for a broad agreement that could help the struggling global economy.

Cutting Greece's debt will not solve the country's problems, ECB policymaker Jens Weidmann was quoted as saying on Sunday, adding Athens needed to raise its productivity instead.

The credit ratings agencies are again angering governments, but this time they are taking on the big fish of the world economy. From Washington to Brussels, Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch have added to the intense pressure on governments trying to deal with crushing sovereign debt.

After stumbling into the quarterfinals, Brazil will take on Paraguay in a repeat of the group stage thriller, as the two battle for a spot in the semifinals of the Copa America 2011.

The antitrust probe into Google Inc could hem in its growth ambitions for years, even if regulators do not unleash their most formidable weapons: Seeking a breakup of the Internet giant or exerting control over its cherished search algorithm.

Victoria Beckham tweeted a picture of Harper Seven Saturday night.

A volcano in Indonesia has erupted and sent thousands fleeing for their lives.

Police have arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News Corps' British newspaper arm News International, sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday.

After stumbling into the quarterfinals, Brazil will take on Paraguay in a repeat of the group stage thriller, as the two battle for a spot in the semifinals of the Copa America 2011.

Southwest Airlines' pilots union has reached an agreement in principal with the pilots union for AirTran Airways, the low-cost airline it bought in May.

The once 53-hour halt will end early, the Los Angeles Times reports. Officials warned LA residents of the Carmageddon traffic jam - a 10-mile stretch of the I-405 Freeway - last week and announced that the freeway that has been closed since Friday evening will reopen earlier than expected.

Global consumer confidence fell in the second quarter to its lowest level in a year and a half as an uncertain economic outlook, a deepening euro zone debt crisis and rising inflation made people more cautious, a survey showed on Sunday.

The European Central Bank's chief said it could not accept defaulted bonds as collateral and that governments would have to intervene and correct things were Greece government debt to be rated as a default.

Police have arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News Corps' British newspaper arm News International, sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday.

Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper business, was arrested on Sunday in the latest twist of a phone-hacking scandal that has tainted British police and politicians and shaken the tycoon's global media empire.

Samsung LED Co. Ltd. said it had filed a complaint with the U.S. fair trade commission to ban imports of LED products from Siemens' (SIEGn.DE) light bulb unit Osram and affiliates Osram Opto Semiconductors and Osram Sylvania Inc.

Chelsea are set to make a final offer for Anderlecht's Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku, having seen their previous bid rejected.

Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is a film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for writing and directing such critically acclaimed films as Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), and rebooting the Batman film franchise, as well as directing the Hillary Seitz written Insomnia (2002).

Six former patrons of the Aria, people who stayed there between December 2009 and April, have come down with the disease. All have recovered. It wasn't until all six cases were linked that officials felt the need to test the hotel's water.

Ireland would like to see the euro zone issue common bonds as part of the solution to the bloc's debt crisis, the Irish deputy prime minister said on Sunday.