IBT Staff Reporter

The growth outlook for major industrialized economies is improving with Germany and the United States leading the recovery, the OECD's leading indicator for February showed on Monday.

Britain's top banks should shield retail operations from riskier investment banking activities and boost capital levels to protect taxpayers from future crises, a government-commissioned report said.

Wall Street stocks were set for a slightly higher open on Monday on hopes of strong corporate earnings.

Charlie Sheen's Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is not an Option tour made two stops in New York City over the weekend.

Google mystifies with decision to halt Street View photography in Germany for no obvious reasons despite a recent legal victory.

Apple's iPad will continue to dominate the surging media tablet market for years, with Google playing catch-up, research firm Gartner said on Monday.

A Swedish firm has become the first known foreign company to use Russian positioning technology GLONASS, in a sign that the system could become a credible challenge to established U.S. rival GPS.

Stock index futures edged up on Monday as hopes for a strong earnings season offset some concerns about another earthquake in Japan.

Simon Murray, the South Pole adventurer and former Vodafone Group Plc board member, told Reuters on Monday that he's in the running for the chairman role at Glencore International AG, the commodities trading giant planning a roughly $10 billion dual listing in London and Hong Kong.

As Texas battles what has come to be dubbed as the worst wildfires in recent history, shocking visuals of the fire engulfing the region have surfaced from media outlets, besides amateur footage on YouTube.

The impact of last month's earthquake in Japan on the $214 billion cellphone industry will be under the spotlight when the world's top phonemakers report their quarterly earnings from next week.

Stock index futures edged up on Monday as hopes for a strong earnings season offset some concerns about another earthquake in Japan.

Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy has promised himself not to fall apart after a horrendous Masters experience when he threw away a four-shot lead in the final round.

It is important that the United States begin to live within its means and address the federal deficit. But the American Physical Society (APS) believes that as a nation we need to be smart about how we do it. Cutting spending across the board without a clear understanding of what it means for America's future jeopardizes the very future we want to secure for our children.

In Pulse, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has introduced a wrist watch that has computing and phone operations. The bluetooth-enabled watch can also display all email alerts, SMS messages.

While Microsoft's Bing struggles to equal Google in terms of search ads, Facebook is slowly catching up in the race.

Toshiba has put a “coming soon” on its website detailing the features of the new tablet it is goin to launch. The market is getting over crowded with players like Motorola, Samsung, Acer with Apple as the king ruling them. Acer is to launch its tablet, Iconia, on 24 April.

The UK government has announced more than £46 million (US$75.3 million) in funding to help put 542 new low carbon buses on roads across England by March 2012, the UK government said in a statement.

Commodities prices rose on Monday, pushing the Reuters-Jefferies CRB index to a fresh two-and-a-half year high on a weaker dollar and strong trade data from China.

Endo Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ENDP) announced an agreement to acquire American Medical Systems (AMS) (Nasdaq: AMMD), a maker of medical devices to treat pelvic conditions, for $30 per share or $2.9 billion in cash, to boost its core urology franchise.

Bahrain accused a prominent activist on Monday of publishing fabricated images on the Internet and summoned him for questioning in an ongoing crackdown following pro-democracy protests the state put down by force. The official Bahrain News Agency said Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, had published doctored images with links to social media site Twitter of one of two men ...

Sharp Corp has suspended production at two Japanese liquid crystal display panel plants until early May as it confronts slumping domestic demand for televisions and shortages of a gas used in panel production, the company said on Monday.

A study has found that many Americans had inflated views of minority students' opportunities to attend college, yet a large contingent - around 43 percent of people surveyed - believed that low income students had fewer opportunities for college access.

Arsenal stakeholder Stan Kroenke is set to takeover the club after it was confirmed that he had increased his stake to 62.89% and will make the mandatory offer in an attempt to acquire the remaining shares in the club.

Interesting moments and snippets related to the iconic Yuri Gagarin - linked to his successful mission aboard the Vostok 50 years ago...

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 up 0.1 to 0.3 percent.

Two of the world's largest concrete pumps - normally used for concrete in construction projects - departed from the United States on Saturday morning to Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant to help contain the damaged nuclear reactors there.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved molecular diagnostics company Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD)'s test designed to detect the toxin associated with a common bacterial infection that can cause diarrhea and other serious intestinal conditions and death in severe cases.

Britain and the Netherlands plan to sue Iceland in a potentially drawn-out legal battle to recover $5 billion lost in a bank crash after Icelandic voters rejected a plan to repay the money.