IBT Staff Reporter

A woman from Cameroon has been found to be infected with an AIDS-like virus that came from gorillas, French researchers reported Sunday.

China has sealed off a remote far-western town of 10,000 people after two people died of pneumonic plague, state media said Monday, but the World Health Organization said such outbreaks were nothing new.

Scientists have identified a class of immune cells that floods the brain soon after a stroke, causing inflammation and more neurological damage.

One of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer may originate in the cells lining the mammary ducts, which can be targeted in the fight against the disease, experts in Australia say.

A widely followed nationwide index on U.S. manufacturing could show the sector back on a growth path when the next report comes out in early September.

Japan's Panasonic Corp reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and sharply lifted its half-year outlook as it cuts costs to cope with a firmer yen and steep price falls in flat TVs.

General Motors Co said on Monday its China vehicles sales in July jumped 77.7 percent from a year earlier, extending an uninterrupted series of single month sales records since January.

The Australian Dollar opens higher on Monday at 0.8355 after signs emerged on Friday night that the economic decline in the United States is moderating therefore reducing the allure of the greenback as a safe haven.

China ratcheted up pressure on exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer on Monday, saying two of her children and her brother had written letters condemning their mother for orchestrating last month's ethnic riots.

Microsoft's offer to settle a decade-long battle with EU antitrust regulators cements the European Commission's reputation as one of the world's toughest watchdogs and could force other firms to follow its example.

Somali pirates have released a Malaysian-owned tugboat that had been held for more than seven months and its 11 Indonesian crew after a ransom was paid, a maritime official said.

India's third-largest steel maker JSW Steel has raised flat steel prices, but lowered prices of long products, a senior company official said on Monday.

A roadside bomb attack claimed by the Taliban killed at least 12 people in a key commercial city in western Afghanistan Monday, officials said, amid worsening security before a presidential poll this month.

Some of the workers at the Voisey's Bay nickel mine in Canada, run by Brazilian mining company Vale, began planned strike action on Saturday over work conditions, the company said on Monday.

The Obama administration was optimistic on Sunday that the U.S. Senate would extend the federal cash for clunkers auto sales program, but warned the incentive would be suspended at midweek without new funding.

Nigeria's top fuel retailer and gas distributor Oando Plc plans to raise 200 billion naira ($1.3 billion) through debt and equity over the next two years to expand its business, a senior executive said on Monday.

Shares of Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc fell 36 percent on Monday, a day after U.S. regulators declined to approve its experimental gout drug Krystexxa.

Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said Israel should be wiped off the map and described the Jewish state as a crime against Muslims.

Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said an offer the militant group made to the previous U.S. administration of a conditional truce is still on the table for President Barack Obama.

Asian corporate earnings have shown signs of improvement, stock markets have rallied hard and fund raising activity has picked up, but the tone from company executives remains cautious.

China has sealed off a remote western town of 10,000 people after two people died of pneumonic plague.

U.S. stocks extended gains on Monday, pushing major indexes up 1 percent as investors snapped up shares of natural resource companies and banks after fresh data pointed to signs of economic stabilization.

Guo Yonggang from Xian in western China suffered serious spinal injuries last year in an accident while driving an agricultural vehicle.

India's Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN Group extended talks to combine their operations to create the world's third-largest mobile operator and analysts said Bharti might need to sweeten its offer to clinch the deal.

Suncor Energy Inc, which completed its C$22.5 billion ($20.8 billion) acquisition of Petro-Canada on Saturday said on Monday the deal was expected to reduce annual capital expenditures by C$1 billion.

Iran's Supreme Leader endorsed the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a ceremony boycotted by leading moderates in protest at a disputed poll that plunged Iran into its worst crisis since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Hicks Acquisition Co will buy Resolute Natural Resources Co and take the oil and natural gas producer public in a deal worth about $582 million, the companies said on Monday.

Health insurer Humana Inc posted a 34 percent rise in second-quarter profit on Monday, topping estimates, as an improved performance in its Medicare plans for the elderly offset a decline in earnings from its commercial business serving employers.

Merck & Co's vaccines chief, Margie McGlynn, who oversaw the launch of its Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine among other products, will step down on November 1, a company spokeswoman said on Monday.