IBT Staff Reporter

Brittney Bergeron, a handicapped teenager with aspirations to be a Paralympian for the 2012 London Paralympics shared her story last night with 20/20 after surviving 27 stabs.

Revenue is growing at the News Corp division which includes social networking site Myspace despite the economic downturn but measuring the value of online friends has let to setbacks in growth.

Manufacturers have been using touch screen technology to make products from calculators to computers but some of the gadgets are not friendly the blind people, say blind advocates.

The first full week of Wall Street in 2009 is Colorless,no huge shocks or happiness.

Researchers are attempting to discover the chemical processes that allow people to experience emotions, including what people describe as love.

On Friday British-based Lloyds TSB Bank agreed to pay a 350 million dollar penalty to settle an investigation for illegally authorizing access by Iran and Sudan in to the US financial system.

Rebels in Congo fought pro-government militiamen in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday in a gunbattle that left six people dead.

Talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials continued late into Friday with both sides failing to agree on the resumed gas supply to Europe via Ukraine.

Patrick Swayze, the Dirty Dancing star, who is battling pancreatic cancer checked himself into hospital after contracting pneumonia, A&E President Abbe Raven announced Friday at the Television Critics Association.

The Illinois House of Representatives impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Friday 114-1. After the decision, he sustained that he is not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing.

Citigroup announced that Robert Rubin has retired as Senior Counselor effective Friday and will finish out his term as a director on the company's board.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich who was arrested and accused of scheming to sell off Illinois' vacant Senate seat said the decision to impeach him was not a surprise for him.

News program 60 Minutes is presenting a special edition disc covering the president-elect's path to the White House.

President-elect Barack Obama's mother in law will be living with the first family in the White House after he takes office.

Ryan O'Neal pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony charge of drug possession for his September arrest and agreed to enter an 18-month drug deferment program.

The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards viewer ratings this year will surely beat last year's.

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Chairman Ramalinga Raju was arrested on Friday by Indian authorities, two days after he resigned admitting he falsified the company's profits for several years for up to $1 billion fraud.

U.S. homebuilder Lennar Corp. responded to an accusation from the Fraud Discovery Institute Inc. lead by Barry Minkow calling him a convicted felon and saying his claims are false.

An estimated 50,000 people in Alexandria, Egypt and thousands in more than a dozen Middle Eastern cities have taken to the streets protesting against Israel.

After receiving a $3 million ransom, Somali pirates released an oil-laden Saudi supertanker.

The Illinois House of Representatives voted on Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, which sets up a Senate trial to decide whether he should be thrown out of office on charges of abuse of power, including attempting to sell the senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

The severe drought in Kenya may result in ten million people going hungry in Kenya the government said on Friday.

Airstrikes and rockets continue to be fired as both Israel and Hamas reject the U.N. call for an immediate cease fire.

Russian state controlled oil firm OAO Gazprom could unblock its gas shipments to Europe Friday on the condition that a monitoring mission led by the EU tracks the gas flow through Ukrainian pipelines.

U.S. stocks opened mixed on Friday after a report that the U.S. unemployment rate climbed in December and that the jobs lost total in 2008 was the most since the end of World War II.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. -- currently under bankruptcy court protection -- has reached a deal to sell its private equity unit to spin off into an independent firm, a source closed to the matter informed according to Reuters, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.

The solution to the current dispute between Russia and Ukraine that has resulted in the worst halt in gas supplies to Europe in years may rely on an intermediate company called RosUkrEnergo AG, according to analysts.

Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas continued to fight for a second week in the Gaza Strip on Friday despite a call by the U.N. Security Council resolution to stop. The Israeli air force bombarded Gaza while Hamas attacked with rockets.

Experts forecast that the U.S. jobless rate likely climbed ranging from 6.9 to 7 percent in December, the highest level since 1993. Predictions estimate non-farm payrolls fell by 525,000 in December.