IBT Staff Reporter

Transit systems in the U.S. are beginning to adopt new payment technologies and saying goodbye to tokens, tickets and even fare cards.

Expressing severe discontent over the continuing settlement activity, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, stated that he might dissolve PA if a peace deal cannot be reached with Israel.

Google’s built in video chat and free calls to the U.S and Canada now can help keep friends and family stay in touch from every corner of the world.

Google Inc has agreed to buy Seattle-based anti-piracy software firm Widevine in a bid to boost its online video services, the world's dominant Internet search company said on its official blog.

US Administration, by all means, is trying to win over Wikileaks, firstly by ousting it from the servers and now by blocking its transaction by Paypal. But the whistle-blower group is highly unlikely to accept defeat. In possession of over 25,0000 United States diplomatic cables, the group would only force the Government worldwide into a war of attrition.

A group calling itself the Pakistani Cyber Army has hacked into the website of India's federal crime investigation bureau and left a warning message to Indian hackers, local media said Saturday.

Europe's sovereign debt crisis will still hang over global markets next week, but on Wall Street, investors will not be afraid to bet on stocks.

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Much delayed The Beaver of Mel Gibson will see a European release in January-February

President Nicolas Sarkozy urged India on Saturday to support France's agenda of reforming the global monetary system during its presidency of the G20 and hinted a nuclear deal could be signed on his trip.

Germany on Saturday categorically denied a British newspaper report that Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Berlin might leave the euro during a heated exchange at a summit of European Union leaders at the end of October.

Well-educated and well-off American drivers say they have suffered the consequences of distracted driving more than other motorists, according to an online poll.

Celebrity digital deaths were not able to garner $1 million for AIDS Charity

In an attempt to eliminate the blind zones behind vehicles that can hide the presence of pedestrians, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed a new safety regulation that would essentially require rearview back-up cameras in all new cars, pickups and SUVs by 2014.

Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School will launch a three-year joint JD/MBA degree in August 2011.

Victoria claims she would love to see Michelle Obama and Angelina in her clothes label

Led by strong demand in China, Japan and other Asian countries along with the various national-level initiatives and programs to promote the awareness on electric vehicles will help the Asia-Pacific region to surpass 1.4 million units in next five years, said a new report from Pike Research.

Football fans needs not worry about securing visas ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia as Moscow is planning to scrap the requirement all together for match ticket-holders as well as footballers from the European Union.

Increased broadband access worldwide has meant a rise in demand for online media services and this could have implications for a society that is living within environmental limits. The researchers found the current energy demand for bandwidth to be four watt-hours per MB.

LOS ANGELES - Reflecting the increased interest in virtual production following the success of Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, Universal Studios has opened Universal Virtual Stage 1 on its lot.

LimeWire, the music file-sharing service embroiled in a lengthy legal challenge from the music industry, said on Friday it would be shutting down by the end of the year and closing its sole office in New York.

A leader of a violent international street gang, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for murdering a fellow gang member in 2004.

A framework for a possible deal between the White House and congressional leaders to extend expiring tax cuts for millions of Americans is slowly being put together behind closed doors, aides said on Friday.

Ireland's tax take will rise by five percent next year, the country's finance department predicted on Saturday, just days before it will test a fragile economic recovery with the harshest budget on record.

More speculative traders are bearish on U.S. 10-year Treasury futures than bullish for the first time since August, data released on Friday showed.

A federal jury has found a 33-year-old Connecticut man guilty of conspiracy and firearms offenses stemming from an alleged attempt to sell firearms and grenades to what he believed was a white supremacist group.

General Electric Co , Eaton Corp and private equity firm Warburg Pincus remain in the race for BAE Systems Plc's Platform Solutions unit as the auction reaches the final stage, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

A report from market research firm Input says spending on cyber security will increase to $13.3 billion by 2015.

Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy and one of the most powerful U.S. coal industry leaders, said on Friday he would retire at the end of December, eight months after 29 miners died at one of Massey's mines.