IBT Staff Reporter

Japan's Canon Inc raised its annual outlook closer to market expectations on Monday after robust demand for digital cameras and printers powered up its quarterly profit by more than fourfold.

New surgical technique for bowel cancer patients involves less pain and reduces time spent in hospitals.

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.16 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.16 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.1 percent at 5:06 a.m. ET.

Scientists recently found out in their genetic studies that smoking and nicotine addiction may be found in ones genetic make-up.

After a missing man died at Nambour hospital, police are now searching for another missing man at Gold Coast.

Best Buy , the world's No.1 electricals retailer, will do whatever it takes to succeed in the UK, joint venture partner Carphone Warehouse said as it raised profit expectations for the third time in six months.

World stocks bounced sharply higher on Monday as a raft of U.S. data showed economic recovery was gathering strength, but investors remained wary over Greece's debt bailout plans.

Japan's Canon Inc raised its annual outlook closer to market expectations on Monday after posting a more than fourfold jump in quarterly profit on brisk demand for digital cameras and printers.

The euro stabilized on Monday and Asian share markets rose after Greece requested emergency aid and as a raft of U.S. data showed its economic recovery was gathering strength.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition will back Greek aid because the euro's future is at stake, but Greece must first prove it is tackling its budget deficit, a senior official in her party said.

Some of the biggest players in U.S. energy markets have told the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that its proposal to curb speculation is misguided and will drive investors to overseas and unregulated markets.

LOS ANGELES - NBC and the producers of America's Got Talent are partnering with YouTube to put the show's audition process online.

President Barack Obama launches a new effort on Monday to build business and social ties to the Muslim world, but analysts say the need for progress on big issues like Middle East peace will overshadow the initiative.

The six-meter high red, blue and gold ball recently painted on the side of the Alwyn alpha rig is the largest Total logo in the world -- a sign of Big Oil's growing focus on its heartlands.

Venezuela's economy could shrink for the second consecutive year in 2010, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday, reversing an earlier forecast of growth in a sign the OPEC nation is struggling to recover from recession.

Nielsen, the world's largest TV and consumer measurement company, plans to begin hiring bankers for its initial public offering, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

The People's Bank of China must choose between preserving domestic price stability and defending the yuan's fixed exchange rate as it is not possible to hit both targets at once, an adviser to the central bank said on Sunday.

Researchers warned that by listening to your iPods and MP3 players at high volume for several hours a day may risk yourself of deafness in your later years.

Researchers found that among 54 low- to middle-income countries, a mother's shorter height is associated with a higher rate of death for her children and a greater likelihood of these children being underweight and having a reduced rate of growth.

A computerised diagnostic model developed by a group of specialists in Australia have shown to be more accurate than a doctor's clinical judgement.

Many would have thought that by playing computer games will improve memory and other skills because it stimulates brain activity.

The International Monetary Fund pledged on Sunday to keep working on plans to make bankers bear the burden of their own bad behavior and not to lose heart over opposition to their first ideas for a global bank tax.

With official interest rates near zero and the Federal Reserve unable to cut them any further, every policy meeting by definition brings the central bank one step closer to an eventual monetary tightening.

China overtook large European nations in a shift in voting power at the World Bank on Sunday that was designed to give emerging economies greater influence in the global development institution.

Wall Street expects Comcast Corp to post another solid quarter of customer additions and financials, but investors increasingly worry that the No. 1 U.S. cable company could pay a price for its various ongoing regulatory run-ins.

Greece's finance minister said on Sunday that aid will arrive in time to avert the euro zone's first sovereign debt default as signs grew that a 45 billion-euro ($60.49 billion) rescue would have to be bigger.

Young models in the international modeling arena are frequently pressured to starve themselves, offered to take drugs and exposed to seedy sex trade, says Tione Hawkin, Australian model.

Two year-old Ashlee Epapara was found dead in her cot on April 9, the morning after she and her twin sister received the seasonal flu vaccination from their family GP in Brisbane.

Greece's finance minister said Sunday aid will arrive in time to avert the euro zone's first sovereign debt default as signs grew that a 45 billion-euro ($60.49 billion) rescue would have to be bigger.