IBT Staff Reporter

New York City offers much to do including great bargains on spring outings.

The jury in Raj Rajaratnam's insider trading trial started to consider the case anew after one panelist was excused for medical reasons and replaced, while the ailing hedge fund founder was absent from court.

Renren's spectacular IPO could be the curtain raiser for what is to come if the world's No. 1 social networking site, Facebook, goes public next year.

Sony Corp blamed Internet vigilante group Anonymous for indirectly allowing a hacker to gain access to personal data of more than 100 million video game users.

While the Royal Wedding may be over, scandal struck the Middleton family Wednesday.

New studies show ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting even faster than first anticipated, raising sea levels as much as 1.6 meters (five feet) by the end of the century.

News Corp posted a lower quarterly profit on a weaker box office performance than a year ago, which was partly offset by strong performance at its cable television business.

The church overlooking the Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco that underwent a major transformation and became a modern family home has found a buyer.

Weak economic figures heightened stock investors' anxiety over the extended rally, knocking U.S. shares lower for a third day on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama on Thursday announced that the White House will not release photos the deceased Osama bin Laden, saying we don't trot out this stuff as trophies, saying that doing so would create a national security risk.

Intel Corp on Wednesday took the wraps off next-generation technology that crams more transistors onto microchips, betting it will help the chipmaker catch up in the red-hot tablet and smartphone market.

Sony Corp blamed the well-known Internet vigilante group Anonymous for indirectly allowing a hacker to gain access to personal data of more than 100 million video game users.

First Lady Michelle Obama paid a surprise visit to Alice Deal Middle School in Tenleytown and threw a little dance party.

The Byrds from Casper, Wyo. is suing Aaron's, a national rental chain, for spying on them using a webcam from a software installed on the computer they rented.

U.S. stocks fell for a third day on Wednesday as weaker-than-expected economic data and more losses in top-performing commodity sectors cast doubt on how much life a market rally had left.

The City of Los Angeles sued Deutsche Bank on Wednesday, claiming the global financial institution is one of the biggest slumlords in the second-largest U.S. city.

Commodity trader Glencore, set to list this month in one of London's largest-ever offerings, has detailed its involvement in a Belgian criminal probe as it outlines risks to investors, including fraud and corruption.

Osama bin Laden was declared dead by the US government on May 1st. A team of elite US soldiers flew to a city 30 miles outside the Pakistani capital, landed in a walled compound that harbored bin Laden, got off the helicopters, found Bin Laden, and shot him in the head.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon name twins Moroccan and Monroe

Apple's latest release of the iOS for the iPad and iPhone and iPod makes some changes to the location database that caused so much uproar in the past few weeks.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday that the U.S. Justice Department had an open investigation into the Sony Corp data breach.

Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday that the Justice Department had an open investigation into the Sony Corp data breach.

Chip tool maker Applied Materials will buy Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc for $4.9 billion in cash as it looks to meet rising demand from smartphone and solar equipment manufacturers.

Osama Bin Laden's wife, who was in the late Al-Qaeda leader's compound in northern Pakistan on Sunday when U.S. military personnel made a raid, has been identified.

Intel Corp on Wednesday took the wraps off next-generation technology that crams more transistors onto microchips, hoping it will help the chipmaker catch up in a red-hot tablet and smartphone market.

ST. LOUIS, May 4 - To combat money laundering and contain the drug war raging along the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. authorities are seeking technology to detect the hoards of cash that smugglers try to spirit abroad.

The pace of growth in the U.S. services sector unexpectedly eased in April, according to an industry report released on Wednesday.

Deutsche Bank said efforts by the City of Los Angeles to sue Germany's largest lender for its alleged role in loan foreclosures were misguided.

Signs of weakness in the U.S. economic recovery mounted as reports on Wednesday showed a sharp slowdown in the vast services sector and less hiring by private companies in April.