IBT Staff Reporter

A group of private equity firms is expected to progress to the second round of the sale of second-hand car dealership British Car Auctions, people familiar with the matter said.

Instead of just hanging around at airports while waiting for your flight, Google said it will be offering free Wi-Fi to travelers across the United States starting Tuesday at 47 airports.

Honda Motor Co is not betting on an immediate recovery in traditional markets and will focus on bright spots China and India, although it will not build an ultra low-cost car to take on Tata Motor's Nano.

Geithner's Strong Dollar; Pay Caps Questioned at AIG; GM Seeks Leniency on Pay Rules

Production of H1N1 swine flu vaccine at two U.S. facilities is working optimally with output on the rise, the chief executive of Sanofi-Aventis said on Tuesday.

The employment rate for July to September 2009 was 72.5 per cent, a fall of 0.1 percentage point on the quarter. There was a small increase of 6,000 in the number of people in employment to 28.93 million, the first quarterly increase since May-July 2008.

The dollar fell to a new 15-month low against major currencies on Wednesday, hurt by downbeat official views on the U.S. economy and bullish economic data from China that bolstered risk appetite.

In a study of Danish women who had surgery for breast cancer, nearly half still reported pain 2 to 3 years later, according to a report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.

Cancer patients who took drugs to cut the risk of anemia were twice as likely to develop blood clots in the lungs or legs as other patients, a decade-long study of more than 55,000 cancer patients has found.

Dutch market regulator AFM has fined GMAC Nederland NV, the local unit of bailed-out U.S. auto and home lender GMAC Financial Services, for not meeting rules on tighter standards for consumer credit and lending.

When Desiree Rosado's daughter got the flu last month, she took a week off without pay; just an hour after finally returning to work Rosado had to leave again to take her feverish son home.

The state of US emergency departments has been called a growing national crisis, and a report out today shows the situation is only getting worse.

General Motors Co Chairman Ed Whitacre on Tuesday urged the Obama administration to give the automaker less restrictive pay caps and said it was too early to discuss the timing for the automaker to become a public company again.

Africa faces a surge in cancer deaths unless action is taken in the next decade to stem rising smoking levels in a continent where anti-tobacco laws remain rare, U.S. scientists said Wednesday.

Simon Cowell, the acerbic American Idol judge, creator of America's Got Talent an record producer, is the top earning man on prime-time U.S. television with an estimated haul of $75 million, Forbes.com said on Tuesday.

Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood was divorced by his wife Jo on Wednesday on the grounds of his admitted adultery.

A judge made Michael Jackson's longtime attorney and a music executive the executors of his estate on Tuesday, giving them broad powers to run the late pop star's affairs despite objections from his father.

United Parcel Service Inc , the world's largest package delivery service, expects growth in its volumes next year as the global economy gradually recovers, its chief said on Wednesday.

Private equity firm TPG could partner with American Airlines on a minority investment in Japan Airlines to prevent its defection to a rival airline group, the chief financial officer of American parent AMR Corp said.

Twilight shone at the nominations for the People's Choice Awards on Tuesday, with its three stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner each in the running for a trophy at the event celebrating the most popular stars of film, TV and music.

The legal fight over rights to comic legend Dick Tracy is back on.

With little prospect of any new climate change initiatives emerging at an APEC meeting in Singapore this weekend, the climate agenda might instead focus on liberalizing trade in green goods and services.

George Lopez's new late-night talk show drew 3.2 million viewers during its cross-network premiere on TNT, TBS and TruTv.

The European carbon market is bracing itself for a storm as another wave of selling by industrial companies is anticipated at the end of December or early January.

TBS made TV history on Monday with the premiere of Lopez Tonight, a late-night talkfest with a Chicano host. And just in case you didn't realize it, George Lopez hit you over the head with that information roughly every 90 seconds.

A Massachusetts man is pursuing a $400 billion lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Time Warner and Major League Baseball, among others, against all odds.

Wall Street was set to open higher on Wednesday as better-than-expected economic data from China and comments from Federal Reserve officials on continued low interest rates buoyed investors' appetite for riskier investments.

Wall Street was set to open higher on Wednesday as better-than-expected economic data from China and comments from Federal Reserve officials on continued low interest rates buoyed investors' appetite for riskier investments.

Immediate economic prospects for Ukraine will be extremely difficult without a fourth $3.8 billion tranche of funds from the International Monetary Fund, Ukraine's prime minister said on Wednesday.