IBT Staff Reporter

Kate will only bring her hair stylist on her trip abroad.

New claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, while housing starts and permits for future construction rose in May, signs that offered some hope the economy could soon pull out of its soft patch.

Housing starts rose more than expected and permits for future construction touched a five month high in May, a government report showed on Thursday, but any recovery will be hampered by a glut of pre-owned homes.

Jose Mourinho has made signing Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko his top priority, according to reports, as he seeks to shore up his forward line in a bid to get the better of arch-rivals Barcelona.

The IMF will release crucial loans to save Greece from default despite a likely delay by the European Union in agreeing a second bailout for the heavily indebted state, euro zone sources said on Thursday.

After MacMaster's apology, Orientalism became a hot button word online, especially in the Arab-American Web community. Najla Said, daughter of the founder of the term Orientalism talks to IBTimes in an exclusive interview.

New cancer medicines typically reach the U.S. market several months before they go on sale in Europe, according to a study published amid a debate about access to new drugs.

Google, which makes most of its revenue from search-based advertisements, is coming up with new ways to search faster.

World stocks hit a three-month low on Thursday, the euro tumbled and top-rated government bonds rose as investors began to price in a possibility of disorderly default in Greek sovereign debt.

Stock index futures dipped on Thursday as global equities tumbled on worries that the lack of a deal on how to handle the Greek debt crisis could trigger disorderly market moves and crimp liquidity.

The European bail-out fund should be doubled to 1.5 trillion euros ($2.15 trillion) if politicians want private sector investors to participate in a second bail-out package for Greece, a European Central Bank governing council member said.

Like many young people hungry for change in the Middle East, 21-year-old student Meran Mubarak is embracing social media as fast as telecommunications advances allow in his Iraqi Kurdistan homeland.

The red glow of the lunar eclipse in the sky captured sky-watchers for the longest time in 11 years.

Stock index futures dipped on Thursday as global equities tumbled on worries that the lack of a deal on how to handle the Greek debt crisis could trigger disorderly market moves and crimp liquidity.

New cancer medicines typically reach the U.S. market several months before they go on sale in Europe, according to a study published amid a debate about access to new drugs.

Vancouver crowds turn ugly after the final game 7 loss to the Bruins, hockey fans erupts in riots overturning and burning cars, downtwon Vancouver turns into a sea of sorrow and anger.

Mexican Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens, who is contending to lead the International Monetary Fund, said on Thursday that he held fruitful talks with Chinese officials over his candidacy.

The China units of HSBC Holdings and Citigroup Inc have won initial approval to underwrite corporate debt in China, paving the way for them to be the first foreign banks to win the coveted licenses, sources told Reuters on Thursday.

A string of parliamentary resignations threw Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's plan to reshuffle his cabinet and seek support for a crucial austerity package into disarray on Thursday.

Facebook is launching a new HTML5-based platform, Project Spartan, with the target of mobile Safari to work on the iPhone and iPad.

Sections of Liverpool fans are in uproar after their new third kit had a tinge of blue on it, with comments on the club's official website indicating certain displeasure at the 'Reds' having to wear blue.

Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Thursday following the previous session's sharp losses, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.21 percent and Dow Jones futures down 0.24 percent, while Nasdaq 100 futures were up 0.08 percent at 0941 GMT (5:41 a.m. ET).

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou prepared to reshuffle his cabinet on Thursday and press ahead with a new round of austerity measures demanded by Greece's international lenders for the country to avoid default.

The public website of the Central Intelligence Agency went down on Wednesday evening as the hacker group Lulz Security said it had launched an attack.

Manchester United have loaned out probably their worst ever signing, Bebe, to Turkish side Besiktas in a season-long deal.

A lunar eclipse occurred on June 15, 2011 visible throughout the world and one of the longest viewable in over a decade. A unique photo was taken in Malaga, Spain, one of the southern most cities in the country. The photo was taken using long exposure to trace the movement of the lunar eclipse over time.

If you want to take down a company’s website, Lulzsec, the hackers of Sony, PBS, FBI, the US senate, CIA, pornography and gaming websites, are taking up hack requests to help you.

With the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles having just passed last week, the gaming community is still in an uproar but not over new games or consoles. It's currently caught in the crossfire of a hacker civil war between two prominent hacker groups, Lulzsec and Anonymous. A conflict that is almost beginning to look like a story straight out of a Scorsese film.

Germany is no longer insisting on a bond swap that would extend Greek debt maturities by seven years as it pushes for a contribution from private bondholders to a new aid deal for Athens, the Financial Times reported.