IBT Staff Reporter

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.

Joran van der Sloot, the man accused of killing a Peruvian woman and main suspect in Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance, is believed to have impregnated his girlfriend while still behind bars, according to a reports.

Citigroup Inc said a cyber attack in May affected almost twice as many people as the bank's figures had initially suggested, as major U.S. lenders come under growing pressure from lawmakers to improve account security.

Western oil firms are unlikely to face widespread asset seizures or contract revisions as a result of Arab uprisings, thanks to deft diplomacy, legal protections and efforts to depict themselves as partners of the local citizenry.

Ford Motor Company's passenger car joint venture in China, Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), broke ground on Thursday on a $500 million engine factory in southwest China.

Six more employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. working at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were exposed to more radiation than allowed, the Japanese Newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported today.

Asian stocks slid to their lowest level in nearly three months on Thursday and the euro wobbled as Greece's debt troubles deepened and fresh U.S. data indicated its economic soft patch could drag on longer than expected.

Boston sports fans will remember June 15, 2011 for a long time. The Boston Bruins won Game 7 over the Vancouver Canucks 4-0. Not since 1972 have Bruins taken home a Stanley Cup.

Alibaba Group said on Thursday it has reorganized Taobao, China's largest e-commerce website, into three separate companies to better capture opportunities in the industry.

At least 41 Malaysian government websites were hacked into overnight but no personal or financial data were compromised, government officials said on Thursday, as the Southeast Asian nation becomes the latest target of a cyber-war waged by the activists.

Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Thursday that it and Hewlett Packard Co will tie up on cloud computing services to support public networks ranging from power, water and gas services to information technology systems.

Talks between the union representing 4,000 workers at four New York City area Macy's Inc stores, including its Herald Square flagship, and the company could continue past the midnight deadline on Wednesday to avert a strike at Macy's for the first time since 1972.