IBT Staff Reporter

A Yemeni passenger, who tried to force his way into the cockpit of a San Francisco-bound plane while screaming Allah Ho Akbar (Allah is great), pleaded not guilty, Friday, to a charge that he had interfered with a flight crew.

May 28, 2011

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that the new Windows 8 Operating System will be coming out in 2012. Microsoft will be planning to showcase the new Windows 8 for tablets starting next week at the All Things Digital conference.

May 28, 2011

Celebrities and musicians influenced from Heron's work took to their Twitter pages to pay respects to the late Gil Scott Heron who died Friday night. The outpouring of condolences to the late pioneer of rap included tweets from leaders in the rap industry including Diddy, Ghost Face Killa, Talib Kweli, Usher Raymond, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Solange, and many others.

May 28, 2011

You’ve had a long hard winter and a very confused spring. It’s finally starting to look like summer so be sure to stop by the beach this Monday for your Memorial Day celebration. The weather will top 90°F (32.2°C), possibly with a thunderstorm early afternoon. But don’t let that rain on your beach parade.

May 28, 2011

Kevin Bacon and his cast of X-Men mutants are preparing for the film's opening next week June 3rd. The actor will play Sebastian Shaw, a wealthy businessman and member of the Hellfire Club who also possesses mutant abilities that can transform kinetic energy into human strength.

May 28, 2011

Being called the Fee Bad Movie of Christmas, the trailer for the anticipated movie The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is being show at selected films over this Memorial Day weekend. The main character Lisabeth Salander, played by The Social Network actress Rooney Mara, will be starring in the film adapted from the popular Millennium Trilogy.

May 28, 2011

The US federal government will stop using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20 year old food pyramid was a basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States.

May 28, 2011

Lockheed Martin Corp, the world's biggest aerospace company and the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier by sales, has been hit by an unspecified cyber incident, the government said on Saturday.

May 28, 2011

It was Lionel Messi again who shattered Manchester United’s dream of grabbing the Champions League trophy – he did it back in 2009 and he did it again today.

May 28, 2011

Greece's hopes of averting default dimmed on Saturday as fears grew the country may have missed fiscal targets set by its lenders while euro zone policymakers bickered on how to respond to the deepening crisis.

May 28, 2011

The spirit-filled final match of UEFA Champions League was over with Barcelona taking the trophy home and Manchester United was not able to revenge their defeat from two years ago , when they also lost by two points against Barcelona in the 2009's Champion's League final.

May 28, 2011

Delta officials have not determined if Saturday's engine fire incident on a plane making a hard landing in Atlanta will affect other flights, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported on Saturday.

May 28, 2011

Harold Camping's May 21 doomsday prediction prompted rash reactions from many around the world, with at least two suicides.

May 28, 2011

The death of 520 people from tornadoes in a year in 2011 has just surpassed the record for the deadliest year of tornadoes since record keeping began.

May 28, 2011

The equivocal, baby step rhetoric of the SNB - together with Swiss exporters' reluctance to give up the benefits of a weaker Swiss Franc - suggest that we shouldn't expect Switzerland either to race away from the bottom just yet.

May 28, 2011

An e-mail belonging to ChronoPay financial controller Alexandra Volkova has been traced to MacDefender and Mac Security Scareware incidents, according to a new web security report.

May 28, 2011

The spirit-filled final match of UEFA Champions League was over with Barcelona taking the trophy home and Manchester United was not able to revenge their defeat from two years ago , when they also lost by two points against Barcelona in the 2009’s Champion’s League final.

May 28, 2011

Researchers at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institue (NHLBI) say increasing the dose of niacin to patients with heart disease who are already taking a cholesterol-lowering statin does nothing more to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

May 28, 2011

The great Scottie Pippen voiced his thoughts after the Heat eliminated the Bulls to advance to the NBA finals.

May 28, 2011

The first half of the UEFA Champions League is over with Manchester United and Barcelona tied at 1-1.

May 28, 2011

Celebrities such as Spike Lee, Eli Manning and Paul Sorvino are drawn to a charity billiards tournament New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck holds each year in New York City.

May 28, 2011

The new minority owner of the New York Mets baseball team, David Einhorn, will own 33 percent of the team when the deal is done, and will have the option buy up to 60 percent of the team in three years, according to a report by ESPN.com.

May 28, 2011

The Mavericks and the Heat will have a rematch of the 2006 NBA Finals.

May 28, 2011

Egypt charged former Information Minister Anas el-Fekky on Saturday with deliberately causing financial harm to the state-run Radio and Television Union, the state prosecutor said.

May 28, 2011

Egypt charged former Information Minister Anas el-Fekky on Saturday with deliberately causing financial harm to the state-run Radio and Television Union, the state prosecutor said.

May 28, 2011

An Egyptian administrative court fined ousted President Hosni Mubarak and two former officials 540 million Egyptian pounds ($91 million) on Saturday for cutting mobile and Internet services during protests in January.

May 28, 2011

According to Joplin, Missouri city spokeswoman Lynn Onstot the death toll from last Sunday's massive tornado has risen to 139.

May 28, 2011

Some 2.2 million SoCal residents are heading for a Memorial weekend getaway on a road trip, up from last year, according to Automobile Club of Southern California.

May 28, 2011

North Korean food crisis is no longer news, but this year it has made unusual public pleas for food aid. Should North Korea get food aid or not? While the easy answer to the heartrending stories of North Korean's plights may be unconditional food aids, there are more significant factors, complex and indispensable for the ultimate well-being of the North Koreans in the long run, to be considered.

May 28, 2011