More wild price swings will plague the gold market in coming weeks as bulls and bears grapple over direction, investors' faith in the metal starts to wobble above $1,800 an ounce and policymakers take

Gold slipped more than 1 per cent on Friday, heading for its biggest weekly drop since March 2009, as stock markets gained and the euro rose after major central banks around the world strived to fight

Private equity firm Silver Lake is considering a bid for Internet firm Yahoo Inc, according to media reports late on Thursday.

As part of a deal, Silver Lake would sell off Yahoo's Asian assets and t

The royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton this spring was one for the history books - and the record books, too.

According to the latest edition of the Guinness Book of World R

Columns of anti-Gaddafi forces sped towards Bani Walid on Friday after their position came under attack and one of their number said they were planning to take the town, one of the last bastions of su

Can a computer tell when it hurts? It can if you train it, US researchers said on Tuesday.

India may miss a $500 billion target for infrastructure investment for the five years through 2012, but will likely create at least two $10 billion debt funds for the sector in the next few months, Mo

Asia's emerging economies will grow robustly into 2012, led once again by China, although troubles in the United States, Europe and Japan will clip their momentum, the Asian Development Bank said in a

Suzuki Motor is likely to locate a planned $1.3 billion passenger car factory in Gujarat, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Wednesday, as the automaker looks to expand capacity in its key market.

The

A record 46 million Americans were living in poverty in 2010, pushing the U.S. poverty rate to its highest level since 1993, according to a government report on Tuesday on the grim effects of stubborn