IBT Staff Reporter

Russia edged closer on Thursday to an elusive 30-year gas supply deal with China that could be worth up to $1 trillion to help power Beijing's booming economy and allow Moscow to diversify its exports away from Europe.

Mark Cuban, the flamboyant billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was elated following his Mavericks' win over the Miami Heat in six games to take the franchise's first NBA Title.

Anthony Weiner is set to resign Thursday afternoon, ending his career as a seven-term Democratic congressman from New York.

Millionaires are less optimistic about the U.S. economy's prospects than their wealth advisers and are taking a cautious approach in their investments, according to a new data analysis released on Thursday from Fidelity Investments.

Millionaires are less optimistic about the U.S. economy than their financial advisers and are taking a more cautious approach in their investments, Fidelity Investments said on Thursday.

Two investors who say they have been making big money shorting Chinese stocks listed in the United States, fronted up to their adversaries this week -- in a mood to swagger.

Contrary to popular fears that cultivating Facebook friends will harm people's ability to make friends offline, research suggests that users of social networking sites have higher measures of social well-being.

SummerStage provides free concerts, classes, shows, and poetry readings across New York city throughout the summer.

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has launched a new website called Pottermore, but fans of the boy wizard will have to wait to see what it entails as the entry page says simply Coming Soon....

Harry Potter fans are abuzz today over one word J.K. Rowling has posted on a website: Pottermore.

The Green Lantern held its premiere in Hollywood on June 15. The film, which is out on Friday, June 17, is about a test pilot who is granted a mysterious green ring that gives him super powers.

Research In Motion will struggle to give investors good news when it reports results after markets close on Thursday, but details on when new BlackBerry devices will hit shelves might help.

The G20 group of large economies will jointly monitor world supplies of key grains to help prevent speculation from driving up food prices, according to a draft statement of a ministerial meeting next week.

The two couldn't be more different but there is something they have in common.

New applications for U.S. jobless benefits dipped in the latest week but remained at levels that were too high to put a dent in the unemployment rate.

How fashionistas dress for traveling in comfort and style.

Arsenal's want-away midfielder Samir Nasri has sent tremors through the club with an ultimatum stating they are to make him the highest paid player at the club if they want to keep him.

Alibaba Group said on Thursday it has reorganized Taobao, China's largest e-commerce website, into three separate companies, squashing any chance of a Taobao public offering.

Bankrupt Nortel Networks said it is delaying its patents sale by a week, even as big technology companies look to get a share of the prized patents.

A look at Miley's worst looks.

A juror who contacted a defendant through the Facebook social networking website, causing a multi-million pound trial to collapse, was jailed for eight months on Thursday in a British legal first.

Boston goaltender Tim Thomas' Stanley Cup performance throughout the playoffs was not just crucial to the Bruins, it was record-breaking.

Continuing his suspected policy of snatching anyone his Liverpool counterpart, Kenny Dalglish, shows an interest in, Sir Alex Ferguson is reportedly plotting a £12m bid to sign Charlie Adam from Blackpool.

A once promising political career torn apart by scandal will finally come to an end today as Rep. Anthony Weiner will resign in his Sheepshead Bay office where he first launched his campaign for City Council in 1992.

The 2011 lunar eclipse-- believed to bring some of the darkest nights in roughly a century yesterday-- was not visible in North America, but it still seems to have ushered in Anthony Weiners darkest hour.

Stocks rose on Thursday as a mixed batch of data failed to deter buyers looking for bargains after a more than 7 percent selloff in the last few weeks.

A gauge of regional manufacturing activity slumped to a near two-year low in June, suggesting U.S. factories were faltering, overshadowing better than expected readings on the labor and housing markets.

International lenders scrambled to save Greece from default as Prime Minister George Papandreou struggled to quell a revolt in his socialist party against EU/IMF-ordained austerity measures.

On June 15, the State Assembly passed a gay marriage bill by an 80-63 vote.The passage of the bill marks the fourth time in two years, and same-sex marriage is now just one vote away from legalization in New York. The same day, former Giants receiver David Tyree voiced his warning for same-sex marriage bill leading to anarchy.