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Canadian gold miner Northgate Minerals said it agreed to be bought by peer AuRico Gold for C$1.46 billion ($1.48 billion), and ended a deal with Primero Mining .

Gold prices eased a touch in holiday-thinned trade on Monday as investors took bets on higher prices off the table, disappointed by a lack of clear guidance from the Federal Reserve on Friday on the options for U.S. economic stimulus.

Korean electronics giant Samsung has released a LTE version of Samsung Galaxy Tab, which may give touch competition to Apple's iPad 2 when launched in U.S.

Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday it would delay the launch of its latest Galaxy tablet computer in Australia until after a court ruling in late September on its ongoing global patent dispute with Apple.

Astronomers have discovered the densest extrasolar planet made up of diamonds, lying 4000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Serpens (the Snake).

In a discovery bound to make many women happy, astronomers have found the single largest discovery of diamonds on a planet 4,000 light-years away, as part of the Milky Way's plane of stars.

A drive to benefit from record bullion prices lifted Australian gold production by 10 percent, or 24 metric tons, to 270 metric tons in the 2010/11 financial year, maintaining Australia's No. 2 ranking behind China, a sector survey released on Sunday showed.

Astronomers at the University of Manchester have found an exotic planet made completely of diamond, which orbits a pulsar about 4,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens.

Google has confirmed that the company is set to try and get into the TV market with a new version of Google TV.

An exotic planet made of diamond? Yes, that's what the astronomers at the University of Manchester claimed to have spotted in the Milky Way Galaxy.

A planet made entirely of diamond was newly discovered orbiting around a tiny star, lying around 4,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Serpens.

AntiGravity Yoga is a form combining traditional yoga, poses with aerial arts, pilates and dance. This technique is the first in a new genre known as suspension fitness.

Astronomers at the University of Manchester have spotted something unusual in the Milky Way Galaxy, an exotic planet seemingly made of diamond.

A jury found movie producer Jon Peters was guilty on Friday of sexual harassment and ordered the man behind films such as Batman to pay more than $3 million to a former personal assistant.

Astronomers have discovered a dense extrasolar planet that they believe is composed of ultradense diamond.

El Nino is not only responsible for creating an abnormal warming of ocean waters in the tropical Pacific but it has also influenced ancient civil wars, a new study has found.

Listen up ladies (and any gentlemen with a spaceship), astronomers say they have discovered an exotic planet seemingly made of diamonds that's five times the size of Earth and with more mass than Jupiter. And get this, the diamond-crystal planet was discovered in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers are debating the validity of a study that links El Niño to civil strife.

On the grounds of the Bodyworks weight loss campus in Beijing, 30 tubby men and women sweat profusely, gasping for air as they pound the treadmills in an exercise room.

Researchers have found an exotic planet made completely of diamond, orbiting an even more exotic star relatively close to Earth.

Workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold's Grasberg mine in Indonesia plan to stage a strike in coming days after talks with the company failed to resolve a pay dispute , a move that could tighten global copper supplies and lift prices.