IBT Staff Reporter

A finger bone found in Siberia shows Neanderthals weren't the only ones we shared the Earth with.

The arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia was approved by the U.S. Senate today, in a 71 to 26 vote.

Bed Bath & Beyond beat quarterly profit estimates and gave a strong outlook for the period covering the holidays as U.S. consumers spent more on their homes, sending its shares up.

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer, D-NY, have announced that the Senate has reached a deal to pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which will provide $6.2 billion for permanent healthcare and compensation for the approximately 20,000 Americans who are suffering from illnesses contracted while working at Ground Zero in the weeks following the terrorist attacks.

Six bank holding companies repaid a total of $2.7 billion in federal bailout funds they received during the financial crisis, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

Bed Bath & Beyond reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit as U.S. consumers spent more on their homes.

TerreStar Networks and its creditors have come to an agreement on the plan to get the company out of bankruptcy, though some obstacles remain.

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that implementation of a repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy would be a matter of months.

Stronger consumer appetites for clothes, cars and electronics should fuel higher profits among U.S. chemical makers next year, even as executives worry that regulations may hamper long-term growth.

The popular free web based voice service is down for most of its millions of users.

Stronger consumer appetites for clothes, cars and electronics should fuel higher profits among U.S. chemical makers next year, even as executives worry that regulations may hamper long-term growth.

France wants all 16 euro zone governments and any other interested European Union members to coordinate their economic policy more closely in the future, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde told a German newspaper.

Internet phone and video service Skype went down in a global service outage on Wednesday, underscoring a weakness of the free online communication tool.

Six financial firms that received capital injections as part of a broad-based bailout during the 2007-2009 financial crisis have repurchased the investments, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

Internet phone and video service Skype went down in a global service outage on Wednesday, underscoring a weakness of the free online communication tool.

IBM will provide cloud computing software that will consolidate and integrate technology capabilities for critical command and control programs at NATO.

Sales of previously owned homes rose in November, offering the latest sign the economy was ending the year on a more solid footing after a sluggish third-quarter.

Walgreen Co posted higher-than-expected earnings by keeping costs in check and better managing its discounting, and its shares rose as much as 9 percent to their highest level since last year.

The S&P 500 rose on Wednesday to its highest level since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, led by bank stocks that have leapfrogged other sectors in December.

A lawsuit filed against Philip Falcone charges that the investor took advantage of his position in engineering a stock swap between his hedge fund and a small publicly traded company that he also controls.

With the Great Recession continuing to take a toll on America’s middle class, it should come as no surprise that homelessness and hunger remain tough problems for America’s cities, as the annual report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors points out.

Data warehousing company Teradata announced its acquisition of cloud-based integrated marketing software maker Aprimo for $525 million to boost its analytics portfolio to counter Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose in November, offering the latest sign the economy was ending the year on a more solid footing after a sluggish third-quarter performance.

(In Dec 17 item, corrects Michael Gault's attribution to Weiser Capital Management in paragraph 9)

Existing home sales in the U.S. picked up again in November, after a surprising drop during October, according to a report by the National Association of Realtors.

Apple Inc has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's content.

Backdropped by the U.S. flag, and the flags of each military branch, President Barack Obama signed the repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell into law on Wednesday.

After Pennsylvania case, Google again stumbles over another privacy issue as it’s Street View cameras captured the image of a Japanese woman’s underwear, said a report in Mainichi Daily.

Researchers in Sweden have discovered a new molecule named Trinitramid that may be a component in future rocket fuel, which could be 20 percent to 30 percent more efficient than the ones currently available.