IBT Staff Reporter

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - First it was chatting, then texts. Now apps are distracting young drivers, with more than a third of college students at a U.S. university saying they use them while behind the wheel.

The floodwaters, which reached a nearly record-breaking level of 1,561.7 feet above sea level, have been slowly receding, and the opening of three recovery centers in North Dakota were announced on Monday. Two centers will open in Minot, and one in Bismarck. Residents can register for disaster assistance online or by phone as well.

E-reader ownership has increased to 12 percent from 6 percent between November 2010 and May 2011, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.

Those topics, four titles on Moammar Gadhafi, a cool stop-motion animation short and more in today's blog report.

Ericsson, Refugees United, UNHCR & MTN have launched their multi-country campaign to help reconnect lost refugees.

The Supreme Court is to rule on whether a 220-year-old amendment to the Constitution prevents police from using 21st century tracking technology to keep tabs on criminal suspects.

Ever since the Royal Wedding on April 29, there was much speculation around whether Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton were dating.

TomTom, the Dutch technology company best known for personal navigation devices used by car and truck drivers, cut its 2011 outlook for the second time on Monday citing weak electronics markets.

China could order dozens of Airbus jetliners during a visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to Berlin according to sources, but the deals are clouded by a spat between Beijing and Europe over aviation carbon tariffs.

Space Bound deals with suicide.

A British teenager accused of attempting to hack the website of a national law enforcement agency and two music industry bodies was released on bail on Monday on the condition he does not try to access the internet.

Bank of Montreal's BMO Capital Markets, fresh from a two-year hiring spree, is further staffing up its U.S. investment bank to take advantage of a surging market for merger advisory.

Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services on Monday joined calls for Research In Motion management to step away from leading the BlackBerry maker's board.

Over 49,000 people were in Texas to kick off the Vans 'We Are Warped Tour' with performances in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was found guilty of corruption by a federal grand jury in Chicago

Two years after real-estate mogul Sam Zell's brief control of Tribune Co ended in bankruptcy, warring creditors made their final pitches on Monday for the best way to get the owner of the Los Angeles Times out of Chapter 11.

An asteroid, named 2011 MD, barely missed crashing on to the Earth's surface today, but the real danger awaits us in 2182 when a gigantic asteroid may be on a collision course with this planet, astronomers warn.

U.S. stocks rebounded from three days of losses on Monday, led by banks after regulators announced global capital rules that investors viewed as less as onerous as previously anticipated.

Stocks rebounded from three days of losses on Monday, led by banks after regulators announced global capital rules that investors viewed as less onerous than previously expected.

Monday morning, after Casey Anthony's adequate competency to proceed in trial was confirmed, the first-degree murder trial has resumed in the midst of national attention, or rather addiction, to the unfolding mystery of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony's death.

Militants mourning Osama bin Laden have stepped up threats against targets in the West, taking their cue from an al Qaeda statement that followers in the United States and Europe are perfectly placed to strike.

Green is back in venture capital circles -- but call it light green.

Fresh off his victory of passing same sex marriage, Governor Andrew Cuomo said he's concentrating on his job as governor but won't rule out a run for the White House in 2016.

Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda will not run in elections next month.

A former vice president of Citigroup Inc was charged on Monday with embezzling more than $19 million from the company's accounts.

Green is back in venture capital circles -- but call it light green.

With SummerFest only two days away and the hottest names like Katy Perry and Kanye West scheduled to perform, the countdown can't go fast enough.

Tencent Holdings Ltd, the world's third largest Internet firm, aims to be China's Facebook, Twitter and Google -- all rolled into one.

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