IBT Staff Reporter

MTV is doing a slasher movie.

Labor group Actors' Equity said on Thursday an arbitrator has cleared actor Jeremy Piven of wrongdoing in a dispute with producers of Broadway play

AT&T Inc and the Communications Workers of America union have reached a tentative agreement covering some 7,000 to 8,000 of telecommunications company's the U.S. core wireline employees.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, 29, lived captive in a backyard for almost two decades, separated from her family and gave birth at age 14 to the first child with her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, 58.

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China Mobile is to release the closely-watched 3G Ophone next week, while rival China Unicom is to bring Apple's iPhone to China as soon as Friday, which may add fuel to the flames in the fiercely competitive Chinese market.

Chaperoned by a pack of mules and local Samburu warriors, take in the beauty of northern Kenya

Despite more strong local economic data in the form of CAPEX yesterday the Aussie dollar struggled during the majority of the Asian session drifting lower from the days open around 0.8280 to exchange as low as 0.8240.

At 5,895m, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the world's highest peak that you can climb without technical skills. But could a mountain novice climb it?

Edward M. Kennedy died of brain cancer at age 77 on late Tuesday at home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Wuhan Iron & Steel Co.(WISCO) plans to raise as much as 12 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) in a rights offer to buy factories and a stake in a construction-steel maker from its parent, after a plunge in net income of first-half 2009.

Dell Inc reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday, showing it was better able to cut costs and protect prices on its products than analysts, or its own executives, had predicted.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will not release its first expanded trader report by the end of August, as the regulator initially had planned, a CFTC source said on Thursday.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped for 18 years and was held isolated from the world by a stranger, Phillip Garrido, who also fathered two of her children, authorities revealed on Thursday during a press conference, according to the Associated Press.

U.S. stocks closed higher on Thursday as investors turned back an early sell-off, thanks to a rebound in oil prices.

NASA said Thursday it will attempt to launch space shuttle Discovery to the international space station late Friday night, after undergoing elays caused by bad weather and fuel valve trouble.

Kazakhmys PLC, the largest copper producer in Kazakhstan names Clinton Dines, former CEO of BHP Billiton China, as an additional independent non-executive director.

After months of speculation and rumors, reports surfaced on Thursday indicating that Apple will officially launch the iPhone 3G in China come October.

Two more U.S. pay-TV providers, Time Warner Cable Inc and Verizon Communications Inc, plan to test systems to offer shows on the Web to paying customers in a bid to protect their subscription revenue.

Accused swindler Allen Stanford was hospitalized with a high pulse rate on Thursday, hours before he was to appear at a court hearing where his former top aide entered the first guilty plea in a $7 billion fraud case.

Oscar nominee Laura Linney will star as a cancer-stricken woman in a new television series on cable network Showtime, playing a suburban mom whose life changes when she learns she has

Madonna on stage in Bucharest, Romania condemned the widespread discrimination that exists in Eastern Europe against the Gypsy people – prompting mixed reactions from 60,000 crowed with many responding with jeers.

Dell Inc.'s second-quarter profit was plunged 23 percent as the personal-computer industry's slump dragged on this summer. Dell said it earned $472 million, or 24 cents a share, on revenue of $12.76 billion.

Just two months out of bankruptcy, Chrysler Group has renewed the hunt for a manufacturing partner in China as it prepares to revamp its product lineup under the control of Italy's Fiat SpA (FIA.MI), three people with knowledge of the discussions said.

French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen (PEUP.PA) sees total car demand in Europe in the second half of the year falling less than expected, its head said on Wednesday.

Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T) and Chrysler Group LLC said on Wednesday they have abandoned vehicle-supply projects announced last year that would have provided Nissan with a Chrysler-produced pickup truck.

NEW YORK - Cash crude differentials mostly firmed for a second day on Thursday on renewed refinery buying, but pared gains late in trade as the discount narrowed for prompt crude on futures markets.

U.S. mortgage rates rose slightly in the latest week but still remained at historically low levels that should spur home loan demand and help the hard-hit U.S. housing market recover.

Anne Heche called his ex-husband Coley Laffoon a