IBT Staff Reporter

New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams, one of the brightest stars in the NBA, signed a contract to play for the Turkish professional basketball team Besiktas.

All those responsible for wrongdoing at the News of the World newspaper should be brought to justice, a spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said after Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation announced it would close the tabloid.

Legendary former Manhattan Prosecutor Robert Morgenthau came to the defense of his handpicked successor Cy Vance Jr.’s handling of the Dominique Strauss Kahn case in a statement Thursday, saying he was confident Vance will make a principled decision whether or not to proceed with the case.

EBay Inc said on Thursday it agreed to buy cellphone payments provider Zong for about $240 million in cash to help its PayPal unit push further into mobile commerce.

The number of Cubans using cellphones has risen sharply two years after the government lifted restrictions on mobile telephones, but few people have a personal computer or access to the Internet, according to a report released on Thursday.

ABC has announced that kidnapped victim Elizabeth Smart will be taken on as a news contributor.

Bear attacks like one in Yellowstone are extremely rare, but when it happens, what should you do to protect yourself?

Queens Democratic leaders on Thursday announced their nomination of State Assemblyman David I. Weprin to fill Anthony D. Weiner's position.

Amazon took a bite out of Apple Thursday as a federal judge ruled the online retailer is free to call its app store an app store.

Stocks rallied on Thursday, with the Nasdaq up for an eighth straight day, as strong labor market and retail sales data lifted optimism a day before the U.S. employment report for June.

Details on Verizon's latest smartphone: The Motorola Droid 3.

Keri Russesl is expecting a new baby.

A report released on Thursday showed that over the past 15 years, seven states have doubled their rate of obesity and ten states have doubled their rate of diabetes.

Companies hired four times more workers in June than in May, strengthening views the economy was starting to escape the doldrums of the first half of the year.

Apple Inc customers downloaded more than 15 billion applications in the past three years, the company said on Thursday, releasing figures that suggest the rate of downloads is sharply accelerating.

A-list celebrities receive exclusive invitations to party with the royal couple at this Saturday's 'Brits to Watch' dinner.

International bankers and European Union officials made no progress on Thursday in securing a private sector contribution for a second bailout of Greece and bond yields climbed on concern about the scheme.

Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, steals the spotlight with her on-point fashion sense, and we wonder who would play the beauty if Hollywood made a film about her life thus far.

The scandal rocking Rupert Murdoch's media empire deepened on Thursday with claims that his top-selling British Sunday tabloid hacked in to the phones of relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Lil Bow Wow has a baby girl. The rapper/actor came out with news yesterday that he is a father to a Shai Moss, who was born in June.

It's among the most terrifying and the most breathing natural phenomena.

Three PTA mothers at Diamond Bar's Armstrong Elementary have been arrested and charged with stealing millions from others in a fraudulent investment scheme.

The final space shuttle mission will have a first, the first iPhone in space.

Pimco chief Mohamed El-Erian on Thursday put low odds on a third round of U.S. monetary stimulus unless there is a major further deterioration in the U.S. economic outlook.

New York Attorney General Eric Schniederman on Thursday said JPMorgan Chase had reached a settlement with New York and 24 other states over anti-competitive conduct in municipal bond derivatives.

As 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2' has its London release today, we take a look at some of the sexiest fantasy hunks!

Wall Street jumped on Thursday after signs of life in the labor market and strong sales at some U.S. retailers lifted optimism in the economy ahead of Friday's key June jobs report.

News of the World, the 168 year old British tabloid will end it’s run on Sunday, the company said Thursday.

Casey Anthony, the Florida mother acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, will be released from jail Wednesday.