India has buried a shame in gold, but reaped a worry in grains. (The Telegraph) In a stunning turnaround in fortune from 1991 when, in order to avoid defaults in...

The gold miners gather in front of the old Crown Gold Mines and begin a peculiarly South African form of protest. They dance, hoot horns, wave knob-kerry sticks, and...

The Saudis have simply too much oil money and too much time and too much religious fanaticism with too little education. This can be since in many arenas of Saudi...

The stock-market panic is not the only reason for rising investment demand. Also Read News Now Paper Specials - Sensex cuts losses on late buying; Tata Steel,...

Why is gold dropping right now when anyone in their sane mind would expect it to rise? The simple answer to this question is, “because Comex-gold isn’t gold”...

In Japan’s landfills, there is enough gold, silver and platinum to propel the country into the top tier of resource-producing countries - along with Australia,...

The sewers of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s overcrowded and polluted capital city, are as unpleasant as you could imagine.

Although “Participating matters more than winning the Olympics” had been around since the time ancient, I share more pragmatic modern notion that “Victory...

Shawn Johnson won the balance-beam gold Tuesday night in the final event of women’s gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Nastia Liukin took silver.

Michael Phelps locked arms with his three teammates, as though they were in a football huddle calling a play, then hugged each one of them. It took a team to make him...

Jamaican Usain Bolt left his rivals trailing to win gold in the Olympic 100m final with a new world record.

With the pressure of the host country weighing heavily upon them, the Chinese men’s gymnastics team came into the Beijing Games knowing full well what was expected of...

India’s Bindra wins gold medal! Abhinav Bindra won the first individual gold medal for India ever on Monday with a thrilling come-from-behind victory in the...

President George W. Bush delivered an encouraging motivational message to Beijing-bound Olympians Monday, urging them to

The fall in crude oil prices over the last couple of weeks has been attributed to changes in demand-supply conditions, but there is much more to this slide.

Heavy bets in deep out-of-the-money calls and other bullish plays in the gold options market indicate bullion has a shot at rallying to an all-time peak of $1,200 an...

Australian scientists have for the first time unearthed hard evidence of the discovery of natural gold nano particles

Scientists have for the first time discovered gold nanoparticles, setting to rest speculation about whether they existed at all. Scientists of the Commonwealth...

The price of gold continues to hit record highs, with futures trading at $1,000 an ounce this morning. Gold crossed the $900 level in January. The recent rise comes...

Its creators admit it is the ultimate in decadence: a $175 hamburger. The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised its price from $150 to assure its designation as the...