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Due to weak U. S. economic figures and dampened trader prospects for demand growth, U. S. crude oil futures fell on Thursday to settle below $77 a barrel.

Though, less than expected, natural gas prices were up on a government inventory report, showing a stockpile increase.

The troubled American pop singer and actress Lindsay Lohan has entered the rehab center for the fourth time on Wednesday.

For the next academic year, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) has been given the approval by Medical Council of India (MCI) to increase their medical seats from 100 to 150.

Before granting sanction for the augmentation of medical seats, MCI team has inspected KIMS on June 23 and 24, told by KIMS, director Dr M G Hiremath.

MCI has granted 430 seats in government colleges in Bidar, Raichur, Shimoga and KIMS in the state, and asked to fill the seats through CET counseling, reported by Dr Hiremath.

According to the sponsor of an ad, U. S. TV networks CBS and NBC rejected their ad urging Americans to oppose the building of a mosque two blocks from New York's Ground Zero.

Sponsored by the National Republican Trust political action group, the 60-second spot, mixes video and still images from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, including American Airlines Flight 11 hitting the World Trade Center and a man jumping from the building to his death, with sounds of Muslim prayer and images of presumed Muslim militants.

Two years in the making, Bipasha Basu's Lamhaa is finally up for release today. Though narrated as a thriller, at the core of it, the film carries an issue-based subject. Considering the fact that Kurbaan, which released last year, too was an issue-based film (despite the thriller treatment) and still didn't work at the box office, isn't Bipasha worried about the fate of Lamhaa?

A real estate data company said on Thursday that Banks repossessed a record number of U. S. homes in the second quarter, but defaults and auctions dropped.

RealtyTrac Inc. of Irvine, Calif., said in its midyear 2010 foreclosure report that Banks took back control of 269,962 properties in this year's second quarter, a new quarterly high, up 5 percent from the previous quarter and 38 percent higher than last year's second quarter.