IBT Staff Reporter

General Motors Chief Executive Frederick Fritz Henderson stepped down at the request of the company's board of directors on Tuesday and will be replaced by current Chairman Ed Whitacre.

Corrects month that Henderson was named CEO of GM, paragraph 4

President Barack Obama will unveil plans on Tuesday to send some 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan over six months, a senior administration official said, an escalation he hopes will permit a quicker U.S. exit.

President Barack Obama will unveil his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan in a prime-time televised speech on Tuesday. But in the hours beforehand, officials offered a preview of what he will tell Americans, who are sharply divided over the war.

President Barack Obama will say on Tuesday he is sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan by next summer to speed the battle against the Taliban and plans to bring some soldiers home in 19 months.

General Motors Co's board of directors, citing a need to chart a new course, dismissed Chief Executive Fritz Henderson on Tuesday, a person with direct knowledge of the proceedings said.

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it could find no evidence that recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some have dubbed the black screen of death.

Sweden said it was too early to say if loss-making Saab would survive after U.S. parent GM announced on Tuesday it would consider offers for the car firm until the end of the year.

Hackers are spreading a vicious computer virus through spam email messages that urge recipients to visit a bogus website offering vaccinations to protect them against another virus -- the one that causes swine flu.

If allegations are proven true, Tiger Woods may have had extra marital affairs with at least two women, Rachel Uchitel, 34 and Jamie Grubbs, 24, according to media reports.

Corrects paragraph 4 to show Henderson was named CEO of GM in March instead of April

The U.S. Federal Reserve must be prepared to raise interest rates if needed before the jobless rate has fallen to an acceptable level, or risk losing its inflation-fighting credibility, a senior Fed official said on Tuesday.

Iran warned Tuesday that it will prosecute five detained British sailors if it is proven they had intentions to violate the national security” of Iran.

CVS Caremark Corp has found a way to stop the Energizer bunny. It will discontinue sales of the company's alkaline batteries early next year.

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it had found no evidence that its recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some users said left them with a black screen of death. See full story.

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it had found no evidence that its recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some users said left them with a black screen of death.

A chill is in the air, and as the holiday season approaches, many travellers are starting to dream of their ideal winter ski holiday. Europe is a great choice, where you can get both stunning slopes and

Jamie Grubbs, a Los Angeles waitress who also appeared on VH1's Tool Academy, emerged to claim she dated golf champion Tiger Woods for 31 months.

General Motors Co's board of directors fired Chief Executive Fritz Henderson on Tuesday, saying it wanted to chart a new course as the top U.S. automaker pushes ahead with its restructuring.

Michael Jackson's surprising death made him the most searched term online in 2009. Michael Jackson is the only search term to appear on all three (Google, Bing and Yahoo) search engine's top 10 lists, and at the top of the three lists. On Yahoo, it ended singer Britney Spears' four-year reign as the most searched term.

The Dow Jones industrial average climbed to its highest close in 14 months on Tuesday as a weak dollar boosted natural resource companies' shares and economic data reinforced hopes for a sustainable recovery.

U.S. auto sales edged higher in November, led by an outsized gain for Hyundai Motor Co and mixed results for rivals in a trend automakers said pointed to a grudging recovery in the U.S. economy.

Solange Mangano's buttocks surgery was stupid for a woman who had everything in its place, designer Roberto Piazza told Argentinean media.

The RBA increased interest rates by 0.25% for the third consecutive month taking the official cash rate to 3.75% in a move that surprised some sections of the market.

It is a good sign that many of the Federal Reserve's emergency facilities are winding down organically as the economy recovers and markets are no longer reliant on them, a senior Fed official said on Tuesday.

Regional Federal Reserve banks favored keeping interest rates low in November because of the risk an economic pickup might falter on weakening consumer spending.

Egypt, which plans to start its first solar power unit in 2010, said on Tuesday it wanted to expand solar power production for export but that costs of the technology would need to fall first to make it feasible.

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest close in 14 months, as a weak dollar boosted natural resource companies' shares and housing data reassured investors about the recovery.

Defeat of Australia's emissions trading plans may temporarily dent political momentum ahead of next week's U.N. climate talks, but succeed or fail, the scheme is unlikely to affect global carbon prices until at least 2013.