IBT Staff Reporter

Euro zone finance ministers and officials were meeting on Monday to discuss a second bailout package for Greece and the financial situation in Italy.

Today at 4:30pm (EST), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 will heat up New York City's Lincoln Center with its red-carpet premiere. Hundreds of fans have already lined up - and slept out - outside the venue with the wish for a glimpse of the stars.

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Shares in UniCredit SpA and other Italian banks extended losses on Monday after a sell-off last week due to concerns Italy could be drawn into the euro zone debt crisis and worries about the strength of their capital.

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EU finance officials discussed options for resolving Greece's intractable debt crisis on Monday, galvanized by the growing threat of contagion to Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy.

A core of large investors in BSkyB is planning to stick with it regardless of the outcome of a bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to take it over -- now hanging in the balance -- and as others dumped the shares on Monday.

President Barack Obama pushed congressional leaders for the largest possible deficit-reduction deal on Monday that would involve changes to popular entitlement programs, asking: If not now, when?

The Google+ invitation button has been available for more than a day now, suggesting Google is loosening up and is more confident about expanding its social network's population.

Britain was looking for a way out of approving media baron Rupert Murdoch's multi-billion dollar deal to buy broadcaster BSkyB amid a phone-hacking scandal that has damaged the prime minister and raised broader questions about politicians' relations with the media.

Wall Street fell more than 1 percent on Monday as fears over the U.S. budget and European debt crises sent a shudder through markets and overshadowed the start of corporate earnings reports.

American International Group plans to replace one or more Wall Street banks in its next sale of shares from the U.S. government, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

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Prince William of Wales, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, partied with Hollywood's finest such as Jennifer Lopez and Nicole Kidman at the BAFTA Gala.

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Germany's cartel office said on Monday it would closely examine any investment by Gazprom in RWE after reports the weakened German utility was open to an investment by the Russian gas monopoly.

A deeper-than-expected recession caused Greece's central government deficit to widen by almost one third in the first half of the year, widely missing an interim budget target under the country's bailout plan, the finance ministry said on Monday.

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Wall Street stocks sank on Monday as fears about Europe's debt crisis and the global economy sent a shudder through markets and overshadowed the start of the U.S. earnings season.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that Italy must demonstrate it is undertaking the budget reforms required to restore confidence in the euro zone, and she was confident that it would do so.

Space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday to deliver a last batch of supplies to the orbiting outpost on the final flight of the U.S. shuttle program.