IBT Staff Reporter

According to a recent release by the Kinsey Institute, men just want to cuddle and woman have sex on the brain.

Betty Ford, the widow of late President Gerald Ford and a trailblazing co-founder of an addiction center in California that bears her name, has died at the age of 93, according to the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

Emma Watson is not engaged although she was spotted wearing a diamond engagement ring on the red carpet at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Police arrested David Cameron's former spokesman on Friday over the scandal that has shut down Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, forcing the prime minister to defend his judgment while promising new controls on the British press.

Wall Street heads into earnings season next week playing a typical game: Worrying about results a lot, and then rallying on pleasant surprises.

IBTimes World correspondent Michael Martin talked to Mosa'ab El-Shamy, renowned blogger and democracy activist. El-Shamy was not only present at today's protest, but was arrested and tried at an Egyptian military court after participating in a May 15 protest to commemorate the 1948 loss of Palestine to Israeli forces.

The accounting board for U.S. state and local governments is set to propose on Friday radical reforms to the disclosure practices of public pension systems.

Casey Anthony, the young woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter using chloroform and duct tape has prompted lawmakers to push for Caylee's Law, which will make it a felony to let a missing child under the age of 12 go unreported after 48 hours. It will also make it a felony not to report a child's death or the location of a child's corpse to police without two hours of the child's demise.

NBC's America's Got Talent topped the ratings on Wednesday night despite a marked drop from last week, according to preliminary numbers.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost a financial lifeline. Since December, bans by the world's major credit card networks, it has been difficult for supporters of the controversial whistleblower to send him donations. But this week, WikiLeaks gained a brief respite with the unwitting help of an Icelandic bank.

Biomedical Gerontologist and Chief Scientist of Strategies for the Engineered Negligible Senescence Foundation said that scientists have nearly all of the necessary tools to cure aging, Reuters reported on July 4.

Economists at top financial institutions expect the U.S. unemployment rate to fall in 2011 and 2012 despite a surprisingly weak jobs report on Friday, a Reuters poll found on Friday.

BP Plc wants to limit future claims related to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster as the region's economy recovers, the oil company said in a document made public on Friday.

Police arrested David Cameron's former spokesman on Friday over the scandal that has shut down Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, forcing the prime minister to defend his judgment while promising new controls on the British press.

LivingSocial has picked Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank to lead-underwrite an IPO that could value the daily deals site at $10 billion to $15 billion, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Call it a lost two years, and counting.The economic malaise afflicting industrialized economies on both sides of the Atlantic isn't as long-lived as Japan's lost decade yet. But as a distressingly weak June jobs report made clear on Friday, two years after a deep recession ended, central bankers have yet to engineer convincing recoveries.

Zynga Inc, the top social games publisher on Facebook, is buying a Toronto-based mobile applications developer, in a move that could help it expand beyond the social network.

Forest Laboratories Inc chief Howard Solomon will likely have to cede some control over the drugmaker he has stewarded for over three decades to resolve a showdown with billionaire Carl Icahn.

The U.S. Supreme Court's dismissal of a massive sex-bias case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc may have handed Wall Street a new weapon in its battle against angry investors who lost billions on securitized home loans.

Hedge funds eked out tiny gains during the first half of the year but lagged far behind the broader stock market, data released on Friday show.

A private investigator used by News of the World who allegedly paid police for information regarding stories, was arrested in Surrey Friday.

I received a Google+ invite last night and I was so excited to start using it, only to find the exclusive social network is a load of bull.

Aren't Kate Middleton's dresses a bit much?

Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed off its seaside launch pad on Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on the final flight of the U.S. space shuttle program.

Casey Anthony, the young woman who was acquitted Tuesday on charges of murdering her 2-year-old daughter using chloroform and duct tape, refused a jail visit from her mother today, reported Reuters. The visit was scheduled for Friday evening.

Former hedge fund manager Forrest Fontana, who once worked for industry titan Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors, will pay nearly $1 million to resolve claims that he violated a short-selling rule, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday.

In NASA's 50-year history, it has not only advanced space research but also benefited all people with its space technology. Even though most people today will never set foot on the moon, nearly everybody today comes into contact with a NASA technology-derived product on a daily basis. Here are the top 10 NASA inventions you might use everyday.

Greenlight Capital chief David Einhorn unloaded his stake in Yahoo Inc just months after building a sizable position, swallowing a modest loss after an ownership dispute tarnished the Internet company's prized Chinese assets.

This month marks the 100 year anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu. To celebrate, we're looking at some of the most fascinating lost civilizations of the world and giving you all the info you need to get there yourself.