IBT Staff Reporter

A spokesman for the U.S. State Department denied on Monday that his agency's diplomats were spies, after the release of hundreds of thousands of secret and unclassified cables by the Wikileaks organization.

The FBI is offering a reward for information leading to the person or persons who set fire to a mosque in Corvallis, Oregon on Sunday.

Japan on Monday dismissed immediate return to the table on Korea tensions as proposed by China. Officials in Tokyo maintained that the focus currently is on working 'closely' with South Korea and the United States.

The Obama administration has been left red-faced by disclosures made by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks pertaining to French president Nicholas Sarkozy that describes him as an “emperor without clothes”, Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as ‘Hitler’ and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin as an “Alpha Dog”.

Harry Potter rakes in good box office returns over the Thanksgiving weekend. Tangled, a 3D fairy story does well too

Wikileaks' latest spill, dubbed the 'Cablegate', shows that the world, especially the MIddle East fears Iran. But there are very strong strategic factors that help the country survive.

The Denial of Service (DoS) attack against whistle-blower site Wikileaks on Sunday was not a state-sponsored attack but was courtesy a patriot hacker called The Jester.

The Indian economy is expected to have grown a little slower in the September quarter than the previous quarter, mainly due to a drop in capital goods production.

Now institutional investors in China can join the gold buying frenzy as well, which retail investors and the Chinese central bank are already engaged in. China approved the country's first mutual fund that bets on gold prices, as inflation fears fuel demand for the precious metal.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that the documents published by whistle-blower website Wikileaks were released intentionally by the U.S. administration. In an interview to the state-run Press TV Ahmadinejad maintained that the documents would not impact the country's relations with other Arab governments.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is not guilty of inaction but was misguided by the Law Ministry and the bureaucrats and hence delayed in filing replies to the complaints of an opposition lawmaker who sought sanction to prosecute 2G spectrum scam accused Andimuthu Raja, the Attorney General of India has submitted before the Supreme Court.

Wikileaks, the website that was responsible for leaking thousands of documents related to U.S. diplomacy, should be classified as a terrorist organization, according to U.S. Representative Peter King, CNet News reported.

Justin Bieber employs voice coach to combat voice break due to puberty

There are credible reports of civil unrest in North Korea, security officials of South Korea told the United States in a recent conversation.

Celebrities are all set to say a final good bye to their millions of fans on Facebook and Twitter. They will only return when $1 million will be raised.

It's 209th Classico on Monday, when Real Madrid travel to the Nou Camp to face Barcelona in a potentially explosive thriller.

According to the latest spill on WIkileaks called 'cablegate', UAE, which was increasingly nervous about Iran, wanted weapons, specifically the Predator B aircraft, from US to protect itself.

In a deal worth $2.5 billion Google is rumored to have acquired the collective daily deal provider Groupon, beating Yahoo, to capture the hottest company on the web.

Twin blasts in Tehran killed a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist while another sustained injuries on Monday. In separate assassination attempts, bombs were placed under their cars. State media held Israeli intelligence agents for their death.

A new survey shows shoppers are aware of security issues, but keep shopping online anyway.

Shoppers who use credit and debit cards should beware the skimmers -- devices that are fitted onto an ATM machine and steal your credit card number and PIN.

India had been deliberately kept out of the Turkey-sponsored meet on Afghanistan earlier this year to address the sensitivities of Pakistan, according to documents released by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.

Over 106 million Americans plan to shop on Cyber Monday, the ceremonial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season, up significantly from the estimated 96.5 million who shopped last year, a survey showed.

The U.S. has many doubts about its long-term ally Turkey's dependability as a partner, according to diplomatic cables that were leaked by WikiLeaks on Sunday evening.

As a dossier of 2251,287 U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks tumbles out, bygone issues will be interpreted in a new light as raw details of closed-door diplomatic haggling reveal.

The U.S. online retail sector delivered double digit growth on Black Friday 2010 compared with the year-ago levels, according to a report from IBM. The findings showed that online sales rose 15.9 percent, with consumers pushing the average order value up 12.1 percent to $190.80.

Mark Ruffalo has been put on the terror list for his protest against natural gas drilling

Barbara Streisand writes design book based on her experiences building her Malibu home

Roger Federer won his fifth season-ending title when he sailed past a seemingly tired Rafael Nadal 6-3 3-6 6-1 in the ATP World Tour Final at the O2 Arena, London on Sunday.