IBT Staff Reporter

Abu Dhabi's $10 billion move to help neighboring Dubai avoid default and a deal by Citigroup Inc to pay back U.S. government funds helped U.S. stocks rise in early Monday trading.

A family animated movie and two inspirational films took the top three spots at the U.S. box office over the weekend.

The EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is starting to influence power companies' investment decisions toward cleaner energy production, a survey by research group New Energy Finance shows.

Nike Inc Chairman and co-founder Phil Knight said the scandal surrounding Tiger Woods is part of the game in signing endorsement deals with athletes and did not back away from the athletic shoe and clothing maker's relationship with the golfer.

Malaysia's government will offer credible cuts in its emissions of carbon dioxide at the Copenhagen climate change summit in a bid to halt global warming, Prime Minister Najib Razak told Reuters on Sunday.

Disney's animated The Princess and the Frog hopped over feel-good football film The Blind Side, to take the top spot in North American box office sales in its first weekend in wide release.

The Philippines ordered the evacuation on Monday of thousands of people living near the most active volcano in the country, warning of a possible eruption within a week.

Thousands marched in ports and towns of southern Andhra Pradesh to protest plans to carve out a new state, as a backlash grew against demands for statehood in a challenge for the Congress party-led government.

The History cable network has cast its vote for The Kennedys, developing an eight-hour miniseries about the iconic American clan.

Oracle does not plan to offer any new remedies on top of proposals made earlier to EU competition regulators reviewing its plan to buy Sun Microsystems, a source close to Oracle said.

It's a good time to be Robert Downey Jr.

African nations agreed to resume U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen on Monday after a half-day suspension, accusing rich countries of trying to kill the existing Kyoto Protocol.

EU regulators signaled they could clear Oracle Corp's $7 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc, after the U.S. software company promised measures to ease competition concerns.

The Hurt Locker, an independent movie about a team of American bomb-disposal experts serving in Iraq, was named the year's best picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association on Sunday.

Austrian director Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, a chilling exploration of the roots of Nazi terror, dominated the European Film Awards on Saturday, winning three prizes including best film.

GBP: This week has a lighter slate of economic releases scheduled in the United Kingdom than the previous week. Look for the Rightmove House Price Index (last -1.6%) plus the BOE's quarterly bulletin on Monday, then CPI (1.8%Y/Y) and RPI (0.2%Y/Y) on Tuesday.

HTC's Nexus One, or the Google phone was approved on Monday by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission after HTC Corp., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of smartphones, filed for permission for the phone.

Citigroup has struck a deal with U.S. regulators to repay $20 billion of government bailout funds, allowing the bank to exit the TARP program in 2010.

President Barack Obama may have some tough words on Monday for executives of top U.S. banks as he pushes them to step up small-business lending and get behind legislation to overhaul Wall Street regulations.

The Hollywood studio behind the Twilight teen franchise said on Friday it has acquired North American rights to distribute jailed director Roman Polanski's latest film, The Ghost Writer.

President Barack Obama said he expects the U.S. Senate to pass by the end of next week legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, but the top Senate Republican scoffed on Sunday that Obama's Democrats were too divided to do so.

The top U.S. military officer warned on Monday the first U.S. troops headed to Afghanistan as part of President Barack Obama's surge can expect more fighting and casualties, hours after 15 Afghan police were killed.

New Moon actor Taylor Lautner hosted Saturday Night Live and showed his karate skills to reenact a scene at the MTV Video Music Awards 09 when singer Taylor Swift was infamously interrupted by rapper Kanye West.

Perhaps it's not surprising, but in the Air Force, combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan increases the risk of depression, according to a new study.

China's vaccination campaign against the H1N1 flu strain is not proceeding as fast as it should be partly because people are needlessly worried about the safety of the vaccine, officials said on Friday.

Three U.S. citizens detained in Iran and charged with espionage will stand trial, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday, in a case that could further strain relations between Tehran and Washington.

Democrats scrambled on Friday to resolve a stalemate over whether to permit imports of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and elsewhere as part of a larger effort to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system.

People who want to maintain a healthy weight over time shouldn't obsess about their fat intake, new research shows.

JP Morgan Securities raised its price target on Apple Inc by 4.5 percent, citing better-than-expected growth momentum for Mac, iPhone and iPod.