IBT Staff Reporter

NASA's space shuttle program comes to an end with the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis.

A top Federal Reserve official said on Thursday large-scale bond buying can be an effective monetary policy substitute when the central bank runs out of room to cut interest rates.

The Federal Reserve should be prepared to act to support the economic recovery again if growth disappoints, a top official said on Thursday, the day the central bank's latest bond buying round ended.

TAG Heuer,a Swiss luxury watchmaker, has launched a luxurious $6,700 Smartphone called 'TAG Heuer LINK'.

The National Basketball Association said Thursday it will begin a lockout of its players at 12:01 a.m. EDT on July 1 until it reaches a collective bargaining agreement with the league's players association.

The following is George Anthony's suicide note to his wife, Cindy Anthony as shown in court on June 30, 2011, according to a transcription of a handwritten note in media reports.

The aeronautics unit of Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier by sales, said on Thursday that it plans to cut about 1,500 jobs to reduce costs in response to a flattening of U.S. defense spending.

A U.S. trade body declined to fully reverse a ruling that Apple and Research in Motion Apple did not infringe Kodak's patented technology for digital cameras in cellphones, sending Kodak shares down 17 percent in extended trading.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is considering stepping down later this year, but will not make any decision until after until after debt limit negotiations conclude, people familiar with his thinking said on Thursday.

Citigroup Inc has entered into exclusive talks with a bidding group to sell its OneMain consumer lending unit formerly known as CitiFinancial, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Research In Motion succumbed to rising shareholder pressure on Thursday, agreeing to study a split of its co-chair and co-chief executive roles and dodging a showdown at its annual meeting.

A new research has discovered that smokers who receive encouraging text messages are more likely to be successful in quitting smoking. They study was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is considering stepping down later this year, but will not make any decision until after until after debt limit negotiations conclude, people familiar with his thinking said on Thursday.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will not make any decision about leaving the Obama administration while focused on striking a deal to raise the U.S. debt limit, a U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday.

Two murderers jailed in an Orange County prison tied the knot June 27 inside a jail visiting area. The couple apparently met in January when the future bride sent the future groom a letter.

The Apple iPad 2 continues to steam through competitors to uphold its top position in the tablet market by achieving an unprecedented milestone of 100,000 available applications specifically developed for iPad. Apps for iPad and iPad 2 utilize the large 9.7 inch touchscreen display and A5 dual processor to run more intensive functions.

There are now more than 100,000 applications made for the iPad. To be more specific, there are 100,159 iPad apps as of Thursday afternoon.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is considering stepping down later this year, but will not make any decision until after debt limit negotiations conclude, people familiar with his thinking said on Thursday.

Social network is preparing to launch something great according to its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

While Japan's 'Levitating Girl' Natsumi Hayashi has become an Internet sensation, China has also come up with three levitating government officials.

While Japan's 'Levitating Girl' Natsumi Hayashi has become an Internet sensation, China has also come up with three levitating government officials.

American media has largely forgotten Khaled Said's face in its retelling of the Arab Spring narrative.But Said's face-- pictures of it before and after it was bashed in by Egyptian police-- spurred on the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

Opel Chairman Nick Reilly said General Motors was very satisfied with progress at Opel, but stopped short of commenting on whether the U.S. auto maker had put the European unit up for sale.

A dispute between Harbinger Capital's telecom start-up LightSquared and GPS makers flared on Thursday with each side blaming the other for interference between systems like aviation navigation and a high-speed wireless network that LightSquared wants to build.

BART has agreed to pay $1.3 million Tuesday to Wanda Johnson, the mother of victim Oscar Grant III, who was shot in the back by a transit agency police officer two and a half years ago, to settle her civil case against it and the officers involved.

Recent numbers from Nielsen may be suggesting Google's Android isn't growing at same pace it once was.

Convicted Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam will be sentenced on September 27, a federal judge ordered on Thursday, postponing the proceeding from July 29 in the biggest insider trading case of a generation.

Hedge fund manager John Paulson, a long-term investor in Bank of America , said on Thursday he welcomed the settlement reached between the lender and mortgage bond investors.

Giant online retailer Amazon.com has ended its relationship with some 10,000 internet business partners while Overstock also severed a couple hundred business relationship in California, in order to avoid state taxes that Gov. Jerry Brown signed.