IBT Staff Reporter

The Tour de France moves into one of its hardest stages of the race as the peloton goes from St. Gaudens to Plateau de Beille in Stage 14.

Do you have astraphobia when Lightning Strikes?

Speculations around Mac OS X 10.7 Lion's release date have overflown and then ebbed. July 14, the date which most tech sites predicted as Lion's release date, came and went with no one hearing Lion's roar.

Rachel Uchitel apparently went out with Jamie Dingman

Stocks will be hard pressed to turn the tide of recent selling next week as political jousting over raising the United States' debt ceiling intensifies.

We are sorry, Rupert Murdoch said in British newspapers on Saturday, as News Corp tried to quell the uproar over a phone-hacking scandal that has shaken the company and claimed its top two newspaper executives.

A study conducted by New York researchers have found that grape seed polyphenols an antioxidant may help prevent the development or delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

The handwritten manuscript is an unfinished novel by the author.

Games continue to be the most popular app category

The Los Angeles Police Department made a wise choice. Over 30 celebrities responded to their earnest plea to send out Twitter messages urging Californians to avoid the 405 Freeway when Carmageddon dooms this weekend

President Barack Obama will decide on Saturday whether to summon lawmakers for a new round of debt and deficit talks, weighing the chances of progress as both sides stick to their positions on spending and taxes.

Casey Anthony, the most hated woman in America, or the world, will be released from the Orange County Jail on Sunday, July 17. To the most hated woman in America, hundreds of death threats were sent to her via Facebook and Twitter.

A National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration revealed that a strong EL Nino in future could imperil the US east coast with rising sea levels and more destructive storm surges.

Google continues to wow the world, this time with some real pluses. In its Q2 earnings announcement, the search engine giant revealed that its revenue grew 30 percent year-on-year in the second quarter to $9.03 billion, according to the company's report released on Thursday. Google+ has gathered 10 million users in its first two weeks of beta test.

The US Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico issued a warning on Friday of a possible violence outbreak in the city by drug cartels that could be targeting US interests.

Not long after Rebekah Brooks resigned as CEO of News International, the British newspaper arm of News Corp., Dow Jones & Co. CEO Les Hinton offered his resignation to Rupert Murdoch on Friday.

A Florida woman was accused of burning her 18-month-old son with bleach and was arrested on Wednesday and charged with three felony charges of aggravated child abuse.

Three months after Kate Hudson (32) and Matt Bellamy(33) got engaged in April, Kate has given birth to a bonny baby boy and has named him Bingham Hawn Bellamy.

The protests of the Syrian civilians against President Bashar Assad is facing more brutal side. With the inclination of more protesters on the streets, the Syrian security forces opened fired on huge protests across the country killing at least 19 people on Friday.

Robert Blossom, who died at the age of 87 is one of the most well-loved Hollywood actors.

This October the tablet market will have one more important member: Amazon’s own tablet. According to analysts and investors, Amazon plans to release a tablet computer by October. It will solidify Amazon’s position as the world’s largest Internet retailer.

The United Nations has reported that measles outbreaks in Ethiopia and Kenya have killed dozens of children and sickened thousands of others. UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado said today that at least 17,584 measles cases were reported by Ethiopian officials in the first half of the year. The outbreaks have results in 114 deaths.

With Apple's iPad dominating the tablet market, expectations of the iPad 3 release is considered to cement its position at the top. Sony, Samsung, and Hewlett Packard have all released their latest tablets in hopes of eating away at Apple's 82% hold over the US tablet market. The iPad 2 now have seen threats but can the new line of competitive tablets be enough to counter Apple's upcoming iPad 3?

Starbucks Corp has been hit with its first strike at a company-operated cafe in Chile, where some workers are seeking pay and benefit increases, union and company representatives told Reuters on Friday.

Panasonic may build homes with energy enhancing devices on its former factory sites post the devastating Japan quake that cut power supplies and wreaked widespread havoc in the nation.

Kate Middleton's recent trip to North America has catapulted the commoner-cum-duchess to global stardom. She's a fashionista and a role model to young girls. But according to one anorexia expert, that's not a good thing.

Prompted by the death of Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter, two new bills were introduced in California today that would have put Casey Anthony in jail for 15 years. Caylee's Law has been introduced in at least 18 other states.

Levi Aaron has confessed to killing 8-year-old Hasidic child Leiby Kletzky, in what is one of the most grisly murders to hit the greater New York area in a while.

Legionnaires' disease shook the luxurious Aria Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.