IBT Staff Reporter

J.D. Power and Associates forecast that June U.S. auto sales will rise 8 percent from a year ago and 2.6 percent from last month, in line with statements earlier this week from General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co executives.

The leading lady in hip-hop, Missy Misdemeanor Elliot recently announced that she has been battling with Graves' Disease, an ailment that affects the autoimmune system and thyroid gland. She was diagnosed three years ago.

The hacking group's latest victim is the state of Arizona's Department of Safety.

Stock index futures pared losses and were nearly flat on Friday after trading in some Italian banks was briefly suspended, raising new fears about the European debt crisis.

After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates.

Here is a line-up of top Motorola phones which Apple's iPhone 5 will meet when it comes in September.

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Missy Elliot recently told People magazine she suffers from an illness called Graves' disease. Graves' disease is an ailment that affects the autoimmune system and thyroid gland.

ARGENTINA -- Blogger Patricio Tarantino says that when Pottermore first emerged last week, he thought it would be something amazing and that it would change the Harry Potter fandom. Not so much.

Cameron Diaz is one of Hollywood's top actress, bringing in more than $20 million a film. She is also one of Hollywood's best comedic actresses, and has been rated at on of the sexiest women alive.

The US Federal Trade Commission confirmed on Thursday that it has accepted Apple’s plea to participate in the bidding for the assets of bankrupt Nortel Networks corp.

Fake it until you make it? Controversial NBA star Ron Artest seems to be saying change begins with him with his surprising legal name change.

Wall Street was set for a slightly higher open on Friday after data showed durable goods orders rose more than expected in May, a report that could allay fears of a sharp slowdown in factory activity.

The Duchess consults personal shoppers to get her looks

Oil's sharp sell-off paused on Friday as the impact of a surprise announcement of emergency fuel stocks from consumer nations faded.

The model and host bares it all in new ad campaign.

EU leaders appointed Italy's Mario Draghi as the next president of the European Central Bank on Friday but it was unclear whether another Italian on the ECB's Executive Board would step down to smooth the process.

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The string of accounting problems and stock plunges at publicly traded Chinese groups has sparked deep concerns across the world's biggest audit firms, putting the so-called Big Four on alert from worries that their reputation could be brought down along with a growing list of stricken companies.

Economic growth was revised modestly higher in the first quarter to account for a slightly faster pace of restocking by businesses and a smaller increase in imports, government data showed on Friday, but remained anemic.

Asian nations moved to release emergency oil stockpiles on Friday as part of a rare global coordinated action by consumer countries to prevent high energy prices from stunting a stuttering economic recovery.

Barcelona's long-standing pursuit of Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas is set to continue after the Catalan club had a reported bid rejected for the Span international.

Kings of Leon have been asked by Bond actor Daniel Craig to record the theme song for the latest Bond movie

European banks and finance officials are discussing a proposal to replace existing Greek debt with a different type of bond to get around ratings agencies' reservations about a planned rollover, two senior European banking sources said on Friday.

A no caps policy on political ads sees unprecedented rise in broadcast revenues.

Google Inc found itself at the center of multiple government investigations on Thursday into whether it is using its dominance in search advertising to scotch competition.

Usher wants Pippa the new hot media darling to model his designer underwear

Lulzsec.com, the notorious warship of the infamous Lulzsec had broken down for a while in this morning, after suffering from heavy DoS fire from unknown attackers.

Legislators left the Capitol late Thursday night with another day of inaction. The Senate's Republican majority is scheduled to meet behind closed doors at 10 a.m. on Friday, then go into open session