IBT Staff Reporter

U.S. refiner Sunoco Inc said on Tuesday it is examining pipes and systems at its U.S. facilities in the wake of a May fire at its 178,000-barrel-per-day Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, refinery.

Frontier Oil's 130,000-barrel-per-day El Dorado, Kansas refinery will run below capacity in August and will continue to do so through September, the company said on its website Tuesday.

Food and household products makers are rethinking the way they work with suppliers to trim costs and get a first crack at new products, as they try to increase sales in mature industries.

U.S. player Melanie Oudin is generating media buzz after beating top-quality players including Elena Dementieva, Maria Sharapova and Nadia Petrova and advancing to the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open tournament.

All you have to do to feel the outrage over the continuing flow of bonuses on Wall Street is to take a walk down Main Street.

A gauge of the strength of the U.S. job market fell slightly in August and pointed to a flat employment market for the rest of the year, a research group said on Tuesday.

Exercise or physical activity should be on the top of everyone's daily 'to do list'. However a survey of the average person's list will reveal exercise is either excluded or so far down the list it never gets done.

Google, the Internet search group, defended its scanning and publishing of millions of books online on Monday by saying the project was making finding information on the Web more democratic.

A New York money manager has been arrested and charged with running a $40 million Ponzi scheme over three decades, diverting some investor money to a pornography mail-order business, investigators said.

Bernard Madoff's whistle-blower and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's top enforcer will testify before Congress this week on how the SEC failed to uncover Madoff's $65 billion fraud, a congressional panel said on Monday.

A U.S. trade panel said on Tuesday that it would investigate complaints that companies were violating its ban on imports of digital screens using patented Funai Electric Co technology.

The Hollywood studio behind a film based on The Hobbit and trustees for author J.R.R. Tolkien's estate said on Tuesday they had settled a lawsuit that clears the way for what is expected to be a blockbuster movie based on the book.

Kraft is the most logical buyer for British chocolate firm Cadbury , but the U.S. rival will remain financially disciplined, one of the company's executives said on Tuesday.

American International Group Inc is interviewing banks this week on managing a planned initial public offering of a life insurance unit, American Life Insurance Co, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

U.S. stocks advanced on Tuesday, led by gains from oil and materials companies, while an uptick in M&A activity spurred recovery hopes, making equities more appealing to investors.

The New Jersey Nets have signed a deal to make a manufacturer of computing and digital imaging products the sponsor for its practice jerseys, a first for a team in the National Basketball Association.

A social networking website for the elderly is helping Internet-savvy seniors in India battle loneliness and make new friends with the click of a mouse and in the comfort of their own homes.

Whether you're a recreational runner or someone who takes running more seriously, take a look at the ChiRunning technique.

Hedge fund returns rose for the sixth straight month in August but underperformed the broader stock market, where hopes of a quick economic recovery fueled strong gains last month, according to data released on Tuesday.

Oil prices rose 4.5 percent on Tuesday, their biggest gain in nearly three weeks, as weakness in the U.S. dollar fired up inflation fears and triggered a rush of buying across commodities markets.

Jay-Z fans were on Tuesday left furious after tickets for the upcoming charity show were snatched by scalpers.

Why aren't you exercising? If you fit into the category of sedentary individuals, you no doubt have a plethora of excuses for not exercising while increasing your risk for many health related maladies associated with this type of lifestyle.

Sprint Nextel Corp hopes to lure customers from rival service providers with a special $100 service credit for new subscribers who buy Palm Inc's Pre, essentially giving the device a 50 percent price cut a few months after it started selling the phone.

A United Nations special envoy to Niger who was kidnapped by al Qaeda operatives in the impoverished West African country says he was betrayed by someone who let his captors know where he would be.

Jon Gosselin spoke for the first time about his public divorce from wife and co-star of TLC's Jon & Kate Plus 8 in an interview with ABC's Good Morning America. He said their relationship will never be fixed and accuses Kate of verbally abusing him and beating him down.

American International Group Inc is interviewing banks this week to manage a planned initial public offering of life insurance unit American Life Insurance Co, sources familiar with the matter said.

A Thai man is keeping more than 4,600 scorpions as pets to atone for the years he spent cooking the arachnids to sell as snacks.

China faces a grim situation in containing the H1N1 strain of flu, as schools start up again and the number of domestic cases, as well as clusters of cases, rises, China's Minister of Health said on Tuesday.

The Telluride Film Festival, a Labor Day holiday weekend tradition in the mountains of Colorado, wrapped Monday after showering accolades on awards hopefuls starring the likes of George Clooney and Viggo Mortensen.