IBT Staff Reporter

Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) raised a cudgel against Anonymous, claiming that its website is under threat from the outfit known for taking down sites with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Only a few website owners are aware that obscure penalties applied by leading search engines cause unexplained falls in visitor traffic, according to a survey.

The report shows that while healthcare employment rose 6.3 percent, employment in other sectors fell by 6.8 percent cumulatively in the period from December 2007.

Barcelona thanked Lionel Messi after his late winner against Athletic Bilbao kept the Catalans' lead at the top at five points, after Real Madrid had cut it to two after their 2-0 victory over Levante on Saturday.

Exploring a few prominent occupations in the healthcare industry that are expected to grow at some of the fastest rates over the years leading up to 2018, as predicted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Lady Gaga added racy nun ensemble to her outrageous costume list with Atlantic City Monster Ball Tour. Slideshow recalls some of her outrageous and bizarre outfits.

Sony Computer Entertainment America won a preliminary injunction against a hacker who publicized a method for allowing Playstation 3 consoles to install non-Sony operating systems. But others might still tinker with their machines.

Apple has stopped selling MacBook Pro until Thursday as its online store states that MacBook Pro's will ship in 3-5 business days, giving credence to reports which say MacBook Pro lineup is due for a refresh.

Trevor Bayne won the season-opening Daytona 500 for Woods Brothers Racing and in the process became the youngest Daytona 500 winner.

E.Life, a social media monitoring and analysis vendor, used its Tweetmeter software to find out whether Twitter could predict the Academy Award winners.

China's Tunisia-style 'Jasmine Revolution' wilted within hours of mobilization after police descended on the protest areas and squashed the uprising. The slideshow go through how and why the protests failed.

On day three of the F1 pre-season testing at Barcelona, Nico Rosberg's late surge bettered Lewis Hamilton's time by 0.690 seconds, after the German clocked 1m: 23.168. Vitay Petrov was second for Renault, 0.395 seconds ahead of Hamilton.

China's Tunisia-inspired 'Jasmine Revolution' fizzled out in two hours. Protesters called for revolt at 2 p.m. Sunday in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities, but failed. Phone messaging services, Internet have been blocked in the communist nation.

Canada based rare earth mineral company Rare Element Resources is planning to open a strip mine inside a national forest in northeast Wyoming, the Associated Press reported.

Former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton will be heading a new center called the National Institute for Civil Discourse, launched at the University of Arizona in Tucson to promote civility in public discourse.

South Korean automaker Hyundai Motors is seeking to secure rare earth mineral supply, as the industry faces a possible shortage of minerals.

Sarah Ferguson, Obamas and Sarkozys will not be attending

He died of a drug overdose

Has created a detailed blog appealing for money

Gold inched up on Monday, adding to a weekly gain of nearly 3 percent last week as fears over a European debt crisis and growing unrest in the Middle East underpinned investor sentiment.

A potential FA Cup classic could emerge if Arsenal turn out victorious against Leyton Orient in the fifth-round replay, as the winner will face Manchester United at Old Trafford in the quarter-finals.

World number four Robin Soderling battled back from a set down to claim the 'ATP Open 13' title in Marseille against Marin Cilic.

Chinese President Hu Jintao said Saturday the nation needs a better social management system to ensure harmony and stability as the country is in a stage where many conflicts are likely to arise.

U.S. lawmakers took their first major formal step in the broader Congressional debate about the federal government's fiscal 2011 budget, as the House of Representatives approved what its Speaker John Boehner R-OH called one of the largest spending cuts in American history.

Automotive Insight's latest report 'Electric Vehicles: Energy, Infrastructure and the Mobility Market in the Real World', however, says that the proportion to be accounted for by electric vehicles remains unclear.

The trial of Mark Ciavarella, a former Pennsylvania judge who has been charged with racketeering, fraud, money laundering, extortion, bribery and federal tax violations, drew to a close on Friday with the jury returning a guilty verdict.

Though formerly dependent on entry-level feature phones, Chinese companies like ZTE and Huawei are moving towards establishing their own brands.

On the fall of UberTwitter, a popular phone application, SocialScope, the multi social network client for BlackBerry and other mobile phones, is quickly gaining mileage.

Reality TV, Facebook, Twitter, paid-for plastic bags were ranked among the Top 10 worst innovations of the decade by Britons in a survey.