IBT Staff Reporter

China has erupted into the deadliest ethnic riots Sunday since the 1989 military crackdown on the Tiananmen pro-democracy demonstrations.

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Michael Jackson will be buried on Tuesday at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills following a private family ceremony hours ahead of the public memorial which will be held at the Staples Center.

Visiting President Barack Obama and Kremlin leader Dmitry Medvedev agreed a target for cuts in nuclear arms and a deal to let U.S. troops fly across Russia at the start of a trip intended to mend strained ties.

A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programer accused of stealing secret trading codes from the financial firm has been released from federal custody after posting bail, authorities said on Monday.

Michael Jackson crossed swords with a lot of people when he was alive, but perhaps none more important than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

The leading auction website EBay said Monday that it is cracking down on those trying to sell tickets for Michael Jackson's memorial service.

Maurice Hank Greenberg, former chief executive of American International Group Inc , fabricated documents and lied under oath in a bid to rewrite history and cloud who is the rightful beneficiary of a valuable block of AIG stock, AIG lawyer Ted Wells told a federal jury on Monday.

The United States on Monday condemned violence against protesters in Honduras and called for President Manuel Zelaya's reinstatement as the Central American country faced growing isolation over last week's coup.

Audi AG, a German subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, said on Monday it sold 67,000 cars in the January-June period, the best first-half result ever in the country.

U.S. tax authorities have discovered far fewer than the 52,000 accounts with Swiss bank UBS AG suspected of being used by Americans to avoid taxes, the U.S. government said in a court filing on Monday.

The Treasury Department is warning the financial services industry that it will not back down from its proposal to create a new consumer protection agency, even while lobbyists build a warchest and strategy to defeat the plan.

Two Chinese writers slaved for 48 hours straight to produce an instant biography of late singer Michael Jackson, despite having never met him, a state-run newspaper said on Monday.

National Semiconductor Corp on Monday introduced its Powerwise LMX2541 chip, equipped with integrated VCO, the industry's fully integrated lowest –noise frequency synthesizer.

Exiled Uighur businesswoman and activist Rebiya Kadeer rejected on Monday Chinese allegations that she was behind rioting in China's northwestern Xinjiang region that left at least 156 people dead.

The Ricketts family has reached a deal to buy the storied Chicago Cubs baseball team from bankrupt media company Tribune Co for slightly less than the original $900 million bid, a source familiar with the deal said on Monday.

More mortgage losses expected Standard & Poor's Monday boosted its expectations for losses on risky loans backing U.S. mortgage securities to as much as 40 percent, suggesting a darkened outlook for the troubled housing market. According to a S&P report the more dire assessment is likely to significantly impact bonds originally carrying AAA ratings.

The American Institute of Architects recently released a study, AIA Home Design Trends Survey, showing there is a growing demand away from McMansions and towards homes that are smaller.

Singers Mariah Carey, Usher and Stevie Wonder are among those scheduled to participate on Michael Jackson's memorial service on Tuesday, according to CNN, citing a statement from the Jackson family.

It was a good kick-off for the summer season. The pending home sales index figure that was released earlier this month marked a third straight month of rising pending sales. That is certainly welcome and encouraging news.

Toyota to mass produce plug-in electric cars by 2012, EU pushes U.S., Japan to a climate change limit, China to build its biggest wind power facility

Emissions from U.S.power plants drop in 1Q, U.S. to deploy officials to China to highlight clean energy, Toyota's hybrid tops best-selling cars in Japan in June

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen said in an interview that he expects Facebook's revenue to be in excess of $500 million in 2009, and estimates that in five years, it'll be well into the billions.

Global miner Rio Tinto further improved its cash position on Monday by selling a part of its food packaging business to Bemis Co for $1.2 billion in a deal that makes Bemis by far the largest North American player in a still fragmented industry.

The home remodeling history has taken a hit in recent months but finally may be starting to show signs of picking up, according to the Web site www.remodelormove.com and its latest Remodeling Permit Activity Report.

Glimmers of hope could not arrive soon enough for America's largest real estate businesses.

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A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programer accused of stealing secret trading codes from the financial firm was being held in federal custody on Monday, pending the posting of $750,000 bail.

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