CARACAS, Venezuela – Oil slipped nearly $1 a barrel Thursday ahead of an OPEC meeting at which the cartel was expected to hold production near its full capacity. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Energy page. The 11-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the source of more than a third …

WIMBLEDON, England – The top women were in a big hurry at Wimbledon on Wednesday. So was Roger Federer. The three-time defending men’s champion routed Tim Henman 6-4, 6-0, 6-2, winning 11 straight games at one stretch to move into the third round and extend his record grass-court winning streak …

Arthur Widmer, who developed some of the most widely used special effects technology in films and earned an Academy Award last year for lifetime achievement, has died. He was 92. Widmer died of cancer on May 28, his publicist Jane Ayer told the Los Angeles Times for a story published …

NEW ORLEANS – Their faces glisten with sweat, their red-rimmed eyes stare ahead vacantly as they’re herded into the sweltering room where another day of court is about to begin. “Sorry you have to sit on the floor,” Commissioner Marie Bookman says to about 50 men and women in orange …

BOSTON – Boston Scientific Corp. on Monday said it is recalling some defibrillator and pacemaker models that could fail because of an electrical flaw. The recall is the latest in a string of product problems Boston Scientific inherited when it bought Guidant Corp. in April for $27 billion. Boston Scientific …

SAN MARTIN, Calif. – A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the south San Francisco Bay area early Thursday morning, but there were no reports of injuries or damage, authorities said. The quake struck at 5:24 a.m. PDT about 6 miles east of San Martin, a town of 4,200 people in a …

NEW YORK – With Wall Street sorely in need of a jump-start following a rocky beginning to June, investors will latch onto this week’s inflation data to gauge if the Federal Reserve can be dissuaded from raising interest rates again this month, as many fear. The latest reports on May …

VIENNA, Austria – Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and gained fame for his opera “Le Grand Macabre” and his work on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick‘s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” died Monday. He was 83. Ligeti, celebrated as one of the world’s leading 20th century …

MALVERN, Ark. – Authorities have charged a Malvern High School teacher for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student. Heather E. Carter, 30, of Alexander is accused of having sex with the female student in her home and in her automobile. Police say the girl has since graduated from the …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – A Namibian tourism official said Saturday he may have been duped into believing that Britney Spears was considering having her baby in Namibia. CountryWatch: Namibia Deputy Environment and Tourism Minister Leon Jooste said he made his original public statement after receiving a phone call from the …