IBT Staff Reporter

Euro zone finance ministers applied intense pressure on Greece on Monday, saying it had to approve stricter austerity measures before a final decision is made on a further 12 billion euros in loans.

Alyssa Campanella will represent the U.S. at the Miss Universe pageant.

When Apple arrives in September at the iPod refresh event, or as some tech websites surmise that September 7 could be the day, Apple will meet a band of five stellar Android smartphones - Samsung Galaxy S 2, HTC Sensation, EVO 3D, Motorola Photon and Atrix.

World number one Rafael Nadal will open his campaign against American Micahel Russell to start off the Centre court action at Wimbledon 2011.

Stock index futures fell on Monday as a delay in emergency loans to Greece and a possible downgrade of Italy's credit rating rekindled fears about the euro zone debt crisis, pushing investors out of riskier assets.

good.food, learnto.salsa, glossy.lipstick -- people and companies will be able to set up a website with almost any address by the end of next year if they have a legitimate claim to the domain name and can pay a hefty fee.

Japan's Panasonic Corp forecast on Monday its full-year operating profit would drop 11 percent to 270 billion yen ($3.4 billion) in the year to March 2012, after the earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan hit production and sales.

The New York Knicks may like Jimmer Fredette's scoring prowess, but the team is more likely to end up with Marshon Brooks or Klay Thompson.

World number one Rafael Nadal will open his Wimbledon campaign against American Micahel Russell at the Centre court.

Boeing booked the first big order on day one of a rain-sodden Paris Air Show, while arch-rival Airbus was left red-faced after pulling two flagship planes from flying displays.

Stock index futures fell on Monday after euro zone finance ministers postponed a final decision on extending emergency loans to debt-stricken Greece.

In the wake of the revelation that both the U.S. Senate and CIA's websites were hacked, the White House has called for stricter sentences for any hacker caught breaking into a government's private computer networks.

China's Huawei Technologies unveiled a new tablet computer called the MediaPad on Monday that it hopes could take on market leaders Apple and Samsung Electronics.

The world economy is slowing down due to a combination of factors such as the euro zone's debt problems and a weak U.S. housing sector, but it is not headed for a double-dip slump, the head of the OECD said on Monday.

Greece's debt crisis may be contagious and poses one of the biggest risks to global financial markets alongside Middle East uprisings, Citigroup's Chief Risk Officer told Reuters.

World stocks, the euro and crude prices fell on Monday and bond yields in heavily indebted euro zone countries jumped after the region's finance ministers delayed a final decision on extending emergency loans to Greece.

Hard-pressed for liquidity, Tunisia's interim government, along with Cherif, are ready to shock Europe-- once the primary market for Tunisian tourism-- into returning to its sun-kissed Mediterranean beaches.

Moody's Investors Service cut its credit rating on Tokyo Electric Power Co to junk status on Monday and kept the operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant on review for possible further downgrade, citing uncertainty over the fate of its bailout plan.

Charlotte Bloomberg, the determined and hard working matriarch of the Bloomberg family and mother of Mayor Michael Bloomberg died today at the age of 102, the mayor said tonight.

Euro zone finance ministers kept up intense pressure on Greece on Monday, saying it had to approve tougher austerity measures before a final decision is made on a further 12 billion euros ($17 billion) in loans.

World stocks, the euro and crude prices fell on Monday and bond yields in heavily indebted euro zone countries jumped after the region's finance ministers delayed a final decision on extending emergency loans to Greece.

The Japanese government upgraded its view of the economy's performance and outlook for the first time in four months on Monday, but disappointing export data showed that the recovery from the March earthquake and tsunami would be anything but smooth.

Dutch financial services group ING said on Monday it has put its car leasing business up for sale, in a deal Dutch media reported may be worth 4 billion euros ($5.7 billion).

It's better than anything that's ever been done, by me at least... It's the most original concept I've ever come up with. It's taken me four years to sort out.

Airbus and Boeing were set to announce several billion dollars' worth of plane orders on Monday as industry heavyweight Qatar Airways leaped in to kickstart a rain-sodden opening to the Paris Air Show.

Users of Netflix have been complaining for the past few hours on Twitter about the discontinuation of its online services, which include the $7.99 a month streaming feature and the service to order DVDs.

European aircraft maker Airbus will fly from London to Tokyo in flat two hours! Yes, you heard it right! It will take only two hours to fly from London to Tokyo and be virtually pollution free.

Google’s cloud-based Chromebook comes with a lot of promises as it has started to ship, but the Chrome OS vision leaves a lot to be desired in reality.

Adele, the Grammy award winner singer and song writer, has been advised by doctors to stop singing and talking for at least a month in order to recover from acute laryngitis.