IBT Staff Reporter

Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co plans to present a detailed bid for General Motors Corp's Opel unit in Europe within the next few days, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The U.S. Justice Department delayed again the release of an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program during the Bush Administration.

Stocks in Hong Kong and Taiwan rose on Thursday, bolstered by bets China's recovery will continue, while the U.S. dollar recovered from a three-week low against the euro ahead of the latest U.S. labor market report.

The sole survivor of the crashed Yemeni Airbus, a 14-year-old girl was rescued 10 hours later after the Yemeni Airbus crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday with 153 people on board.

A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer warned about irregularities at Bernard Madoff's financial management firm as far back as 2004, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing agency documents and sources familiar with the investigation.

Asian stocks were largely unchanged on Thursday ahead of the latest U.S. payrolls report, while the U.S. dollar remained near a three-week low against the euro, sensitive to lingering doubts about its reserve status.

A will signed by Michael Jackson putting his multimillion-dollar estate in a trust for his children and mother was filed in court on Wednesday, as details of his highly-anticipated funeral remained sketchy.

Abandoned by Michael Jackson after a humiliating child molestation trial in 2005, the late singer's Neverland Ranch could now become one of the biggest draws in the world as a memorial to the King of Pop.

Karl Malden, the bulbous-nosed actor who won an Academy Award for his supporting role in Streetcar Named Desire and became a fixture in American Express Co. advertising died today at 97.

The family of Michael Jackson on Wednesday announced that contrary to previous reports, the singers body will not be available for public viewing at the starts Neverland home.

Rio Tinto Ltd's $15.2 billion rights offer, the fifth-biggest on record, generated strong demand from UK investors, putting the world's top iron ore miner back into growth mode after a debt-funded purchase of Alcan had brought it to its knees.

As the worldwide IT markets took a major plunge in the current downturn, markets for Green computers and servers will grow $190 billion in 2013, according to analyst.

Sony Corp's Sony Music Entertainment, the second largest music company in world, said on Wednesday it made a strategic investment in IODA, a digital distributor of independent music.

Layoffs for the month of June exceeded the expectations, China on Tuesday delayed implementation of a controversial rule that requires all manufacturers to install Internet filtering software, California state resorts to issuing IOU's after the governor and lawmakers failed to reach a budget agreement.

General Motors Corp has no choice but to sell its assets to a group led by the U.S. government if it is to survive, a lawyer for the bankrupt carmaker argued in bankruptcy court in Manhattan on Wednesday

The U.S. government will soon release $4 billion of loans and grants aimed at expanding broadband access to underserved areas across the United States, officials said on Wednesday.

Total U.S. new light vehicle sales in June were down 27.7 percent to 859,847, according to Autodata Corp, which compiled results released today by automakers. Ford Motor Corp fell the least with a 10.7 pct decline.

Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion filed late on Tuesday.

Chinalco decided to participate in the $15.2-billion rights issue of global miner Rio Tinto with the financial support from the Agricultural Bank of China and China Development Bank, Caijing Magazine reported on Tuesday.

It was a strategic move to announce the discovery of a three-billion-ton iron ore deposit in Liaoning province, said an analyst who preferred not to be named, to help Chinese negotiators gain a bigger say at this year's iron ore price negotiations.

Mozilla has officially released the latest version of its Firefox browser bringing not only cutting-edge features, but new prospects of stripping away market share from rival browsers.

Auto seating supplier Lear Corp said on Wednesday it would file for Chapter 11 in a reorganization supported by key secured lenders and bondholders and had obtained $500 million in bankruptcy financing.

Xinhua, China's state news agency, said on Wednesday it had launched a trial run for an international English-language television news service as part of a drive to boost the country's image and global media influence.

The U.S. will give $408 million in federal funds to develop two new carbon capture and sequestration projects in coal fired power plants, Energy Sec. Steven Chu announced on Wednesday. The projects aim to achieve at least 90 percent carbon dioxide capture efficiency, Chu said.

A year-old website, inspired by the use of Twitter and Internet media reporting out of Iran, hopes to become the go-to forum for citizen journalists everywhere as traditional media pulls back.

U.S. auto sales tumbled 28 percent in June, the narrowest decline in nine months, as Ford Motor Co stole market share from its rivals.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported gasoline stockpiles rose by 2.3 million barrels last week, surpassing analysts' forecasts and showing the economic crisis has hit fuel demand hard. Distillate inventories jumped by 2.9 million barrels and crude stockpiles fell by 3.7 million barrels.

Two losing contenders in Iran's presidential election denounced the result on Wednesday in clear defiance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's next cabinet would be illegitimate.

Actor Karl Malden, who won an Oscar for his role in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire, died Wednesday at age 97 as he slept in his Brentwood, Calif., home, his manager Bud Ross said according to Reuters.