IBT Staff Reporter

Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah called for an early presidential elections, without mention anything about the GCC, Gulf Cooperation Council deal which had promised to end his three-decade rule.

The Uithof Campus of the Utrecht University.

Gold Prices broke back above $1500 on Friday morning, only to fall back to $1488 per ounce in early New York trading.

Many athletes have been accused of doping to cheat in their sport. The latest to be hit with the scandal is seven-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong.

Doomsday awaits tomorrow, but life goes on. Harold Camping will be watching the apocalypse on TV while his employees plan to work on Monday.

Nokia said on Friday it was negotiating with several chipset suppliers for its future Windows Phone models after deciding to use Qualcomm in its first smartphones using Microsoft's software.

Doomsday prophet Harold Camping who is confidently propagating May 21 as the judgment day or end of the world cites the success of Gay Pride and Same Sex Marriage Movement as one of the primary reasons for the apocalypse.

Oil steadied on Friday with U.S. light crude below $99 per barrel, as the dollar rose and investors worried about the outlook for global economic growth.

With Harold Camping's recent prediction about Doomsday being May 21, 2011, many people are being drawn to Doomsday theories. But as we'll see here, many Doomsday theories, nay, in fact, all Doomsday theories have failed.

CBS former new anchor, Katie Couric is in discussion with ABC for afternoon talk show.

Christine Lagarde, French Finance Minister emerged as the next IMF head on Thursday after Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned and vowed to fight charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

Apple and Sony Music Entertainment are nearing a deal that will allow licensed cloud-music services. Apple has made giant strides toward establishing their new music service by landing deals with major music labels. According to CNET, EMI Music and Warner Music Group has already signed on board the Apple cloud-music deal while Sony and Universal will be wrapping up soon.

Stock index futures fell on Friday as Wall Street faced technical resistance after shares rose two days in a row.

California-based Harold Camping, who heads the Family Radio Christian network, has predicted May 21, 2011 to be the Doomsday, or the Judgment Day, when around 200 million righteous will Rapture into heaven and the sinners will be left behind.

Stock index futures fell on Friday as Wall Street faced technical resistance after shares rose two days in a row.

The French Open draws are out and world number one Rafael Nadal has a tricky first round encounter against John Isner, while the irrepressible Novak Djokovic opens against Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker.

U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday as Wall Street faced technical resistance after shares rose two days in a row.

The New York Yankees scored 13 runs off 14 hits in their rout of the Baltimore Orioles last night at Camden Yards. CC Sabathia spread seven hits over eight innings for the win, and Nick Swisher drove in four runs as the Yanks won their third in a row.

My cab driver neighbor shares his predictions for this weekend's games and races, like he always does.

Tokyo Electric Power Co reported a $15 billion net loss on Friday to account for the disaster at its Fukushima nuclear plant, marking the biggest loss in Japan by a non-financial company and prompting the firm to warn its future was uncertain.

Doomsday prophet Harold Camping is claiming that the Second Coming of Jesus is destined to take place on May 21 which will be coupled with a destructive earthquake followed by the rapture of true Christians.

The peace-deal between Israel and Palestine will be achieved only if the 1967 borders are taken into consideration, says a report published by Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in February 2010.

MOEX, a unit of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co , and partner in BP Plc's doomed Macondo well has agreed to pay the UK oil major $1.1 billion toward the cost of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Japan's Panasonic Corp will have an extremely tough year, with the effects of the devastating March earthquake continuing to hamper sales through September, the head of the electronics giant said on Friday.

Stock index futures pointed to a flat opening on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.03 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.02 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.01 percent at 4 a.m. EDT.

China Telecom Corp Ltd, the smallest of the country's three wireless carriers, has contacted Apple Inc to introduce the popular iPhone based on CDMA technology, Chairman Wang Xiaochu said on Friday.

The New York Stock Exchange is working with China to launch the country's international board that will allow foreign firms to list on the mainland, in a move seen as a crucial step in developing its capital markets.

Some prominent Israeli reporters who are accompanying the Egyptian Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his trip to Washington, has predicted a stormy meeting between him and the US President. Netanyahu and Obama are scheduled for talks at the White House on Friday.

The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Friday in a sign that a first-quarter economic slump failed to undermine the central bank's confidence growth will pick up around autumn when the wounds from the devastating earthquake begin to heal.