IBT Staff Reporter

For its You Are What You Read campaign, Scholastic has just released Daniel Radcliffe's bookprint.

TURNING ON THE CHARMSolomon avoids the spotlight. Bald and paunchy, with a gravelly voice and a casual demeanor, he hardly radiates power. Described by friends as a family man close to his wife and two daughters, Solomon lives in an apartment on tony Central Park West in Manhattan, and is not known to flaunt his wealth.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is preparing to sell its stake in a Manhattan building that once housed the International Toy Center to JPMorgan Chase & Co for about $700 million, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration along with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health agencies are warning consumers not to eat Evergreen Produce brand alfalfa sprouts or spicy sprouts because they may be linked to 20 cases of salmonella poisoning.

U.S. consumer spending failed to rise in May, breaking 10 straight months of gains, as households struggled with rising prices and automakers could not deliver some popular models due to fallout from Japan's earthquake.

Stocks rose from three days of losses on Monday, led by banks after news of more favorable capital requirements and optimism over Greece's austerity plan, but investors cautioned against high hopes.

The Supreme Court rules the State of California can't restrict the sale of violent video games.

Smurf fans came out in support of the new film, 'The Smurfs,' and set a Guinness World Record.

Private equity and real estate firm Blackstone Group was recently asked by the Securities and Exchange Commission to provide extra information about how it remunerates its executives, according to regulatory filings made public on Monday.

Governments cannot ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors because it would violate free-speech rights, the U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday in its first ruling in a video game case.

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.