IBT Staff Reporter

U.S. policymakers may not be willing or able to wait for all global uncertainties to be resolved before they begin normalizing loose monetary policy, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Tuesday.

U.S. stock index futures were flat on Tuesday as investors looked ahead to a round of corporate results that could show the impact of overseas crises

Using data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, scientists have observed the decays of a rare particle - dubbed 'b-meson' - that could provide clues on why antimatter all but disappeared after the Big Bang.

'Femme Fatale' reviews may be ushering in the end of Britney Spears' career in music.

Amazon has launched a cloud-based music locker service called Cloud Drive, which gives the online books trader an early mover's advantage over Apple and Google.

Japan may nationalize Tokyo Electric Power <9501.T> as mounting costs and public anger threaten the future of the company at the center of the country's deepening nuclear crisis.

Japanese auto major Nissan Motors is committed to making all efforts to support the restoration of the areas impacted by the earthquake, with sincere hopes that relief and recovery progresses as quickly as possible, the carmaker said in a statement.

Twitter has rejigged its top guns to take on Facebook on online advertising with Jack Dorsey's return with his forte in product development.

U.S. policymakers may not be willing or able to wait for all global uncertainties to be resolved before they begin normalizing its loose monetary policy, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Tuesday.

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open, with futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq futures 0.1-0.4 percent higher at 0925 GMT (5:25 a.m. ET).

Live Update from IAEA on Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant

Amazon.com Inc has launched an online service that would enable its customers to securely store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, Android tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they are.

World stocks slipped on Tuesday, despite emerging market gains, while the euro recovered on expectations of higher interest rates.

Tests are more punitive than educational tools for both schools and students, feels the president.

The United States Army has offered an apology for any distress caused by recently published images of some of its soldiers posing with corpses of Afghan civilians they are accused of killing for sport.

China's share of global authorship went up from 4.4% to 10.2% between the periods studied, taking the country from sixth to second position globally. Whether it can match quantity with quality, however, remains to be seen.

World number one Rafael Nadal and number three Roger Federer cruised into the last-16 stage of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Miami.

President Barack Obama's speech on Libya, Gadhafi sparks off a wave of rhetoric from Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and other 2012 Presidential hopefuls ahead of the poll. Start slideshow to see quotes and photos:

Brent crude fell for a third day running on Tuesday as Libyan rebels gained ground against embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi, boosting expectations that supplies from the nation may be restored quicker than expected.

Global stocks rebounded on Tuesday from early losses tied to Japan's struggle to contain the world's worst nuclear crisis in decades, while the euro steadied after comments by the European Central Bank's chief bolstered the view it would raise interest rates soon.

Amazon.com Inc said it has unveiled an online service that would enable its customers to securely store and access music through their smartphones and computers.

Brent crude fell for a third day running on Tuesday as Libyan rebels gained ground against embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi, boosting expectations supplies from the nation may be restored quicker than expected.

News Corp has held talks to give control of Myspace to the music label-owned video site Vevo.com, but the likelihood of a deal being reached was slim, a person with knowledge of the talks said.

Work crews at Fukushima's Daiichi nuclear complex have found new pools of radioactive water at the complex and plutonium in the soil surrounding the complex.

If you are a fanatic fan of Apple's iPad 2 and you live in United States, be happy. Here, you can buy the new iPad for the lowest price in the world.

Chinese inflation will probably rise more than 5 percent in the year to March, pushing the central bank to raise interest rates, an official newspaper said on Tuesday.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc partners have sold $108 million in shares in recent months, cutting their total ownership stake to about 10 percent from 11.2 percent, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Stocks fell on Monday as the corporate outlook was clouded ahead of earnings and uncertainty continued to creep from abroad, while volume hit its lowest level of the year.

Reactions to President Barack Obama's speech on Monday varied broadly, from supporters calling it ambitious to concern that it was too vague, not clearly outlining when U.S. military force would be used in the future.