IBT Staff Reporter

Uganda confirmed 101 suspected cases of Ebola fever and hundreds more people being closely monitored, officials said on Friday, with growing fears the lethal virus may spread to neighboring countries.

The Launching of Atlantis space shuttle was delayed until Saturday, on allegations of problems associated with fuel sensors.

Imax Corp. shares gained momentum on Friday following AMC Entertainment Inc.'s announcement to install 100 digital projection screens over the next three years.

Crude oil fell on Friday in New York, on a report of higher than expected fuel inventories this week.

Macrovision Corp announced on Friday it would buy Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc for $2.8 billion in cash and stock to form a broad video entertainment distributor as investor concern over the deal’s price caused both companies’ shares to drop.

U.S. stocks on Friday, finished with a 2 percent weekly gain although investors remained cautious about next week's policy-setting meeting by the Federal Reserve.

The dollar rose again versus the yen on Friday after a U.S. government report showed employers added more jobs than expected in November, easing concerns about a possible recession.

U.S. stocks ended nearly flat on Friday after the U.S. government reported slower job growth than expected and a boost in inflation.

A leftist farmers' group has asked the United Nations to send Hollywood star Angelina Jolie to visit the Philippines to check on the rising number of people displaced by army offensives in the countryside.

A federal appeals court on Friday let stand a 2006 action by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that lifted some regulations on Verizon Communications Inc's broadband business.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party will name its candidate for next year's presidential vote on December 17 when it could become clearer who Putin wants to be his successor.

A federal appeals court on Friday let stand a 2006 action by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that lifted some regulations on Verizon's broadband business.

Employers added 94,000 jobs in November, the Labor Department said on Friday in a report showing a slowdown in job creation in recent months that raises chances for a modest cut in interest rates next week. Analysts said continued gains in hiring showed the economy was not at immediate risk of crumbling onto recession but another report said consumers' moods grew darker in December.

Mike de la Cruz, a senior vice president with German software giant SAP AG, shows off the latest weapon of the corporate road warrior -- his iPhone.

At Apple Inc's new store in Manhattan, the smiling geniuses and concierges standing at attention are as important as the iPods and Mac computers on display.

United Airlines said on Friday that parent UAL Corp will pay shareholders $2.15 per share in a special payout totaling $250 million, marking a rare move by an airline to reward investors.

Few expected to see James Murdoch overtaking his elder brother Lachlan for their father's media empire.

Consider this scenario: In the week preceding the Academy Awards, the Academy president announces that if the strike is not settled by the time the Oscar broadcast is to air, then the show will not go on. Under no circumstances would we expect anyone to cross a picket line, the Academy president says.

Oil hovered near $90 a barrel on Friday, searching for direction amid conflicting concerns over supply tightness and weak demand growth from a slowing economy in the United States, the world's top oil consumer.

The chance that developing countries would accept firm emissions-cutting targets receded on Friday, as U.N.-led talks to launch negotiations on a climate pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol inched forwards.

A female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 16 people in Iraq on Friday in an attack on former Sunni Arab insurgents who have joined the security forces to fight al Qaeda, police said.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore urged governments on Friday to advance by two years a new treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions instead of waiting until the Kyoto pact expires in 2012.

A U.S. intelligence report claiming Iran halted a nuclear weapons program in 2003 has caught Washington's Gulf Arab allies off guard, analysts say, raising concern that U.S. pressure against Tehran could slacken.

The CIA acknowledged making videotapes to document interrogations of terrorism suspects that used techniques critics have denounced as torture, and said on Thursday it had destroyed the recordings.

The government's intervention to streamline the mortgage industry's process for evaluating struggling borrowers was a necessary step, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson says. No one should lose their home just because a complex, cumbersome process simply couldn't get to them in time to determine if there is another potential solution.

Jetblue Airways will provide email and instant-messaging services, as it tests the new products one of its flights this coming Tuesday, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Major League Baseball suspended two players for 15 days on Thursday over violations of the league’s drug policies.

A key product delay will mean lower sales for device maker Palm this holiday season during its second fiscal quarter of 2008, the company said Thursday.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s former CEO William W. McGuire agreed on Thursday to repay over $400 million in compensation -- in addition to $200 million he previously gave up -- as part of a settlement deal with the company and government regulators over an options backdating scandal.