Demand for gold by central banks and official sector institutions were more than double the level reported a year ago, as emerging market central banks continue to gobble up gold due to concerns about fiat currencies, such as the U.S. dollar and especially the euro, according to World Gold Council data released Thursday.
Demonoid is one of the most popular torrent sites, but its massive base of subscribers is without service after what originally appeared to be a DDoS attack has turned out to be a move by the Ukrainian government, possibly to appease the U.S. in its campaign against online piracy.
Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt helped make the 2012 Olympics one of the most memorable games in history. Here is a list of the best moments from London.
Kevin Durant and LeBron James were on their game on Sunday against Spain.
The men's basketball team earned a trip to the gold-medal match.
The 2012 Olympics medal count of shame is a list curated by the Wall Street Journal during the London Games which shows that though Britain has done stunningly well when it comes to bringing home gold, silver and bronze medals, its athletes have also had by far the most last, second-to-last and third-to-last performances of any nation this year.
Russia's food security commission on Wednesday ruled out imposing a ban on grain exports, saying -- for now -- concerns that a serious drought will not cause one of the world's largest wheat producers to deliver a worldwide blow to the price of bread.
Ukrainian synchronized swimmers Daria Iushko And Kysenia Sydorenko caused quite a stir on Twitter Tuesday when the females engaged in a kiss after their finals routine at the London Olympics.
The 27-year-old leapt to a mark of 14.98 meters.
Even though Carmelita Jeter is an Olympic athlete who won a silver medal Saturday, she might never shake the questions about the athlete with whom she shares a last name: superstar New York Yankee Derek Jeter.
South Korean fencer Shin Lam got denied an advance to the Olympic final of the women's epee after she misinterpreted a clock re-setting.
The wheat production downgrade, made after corn and soybean prices reached fresh, all-time highs, is a blow for global wheat suppliers, especially those in Canada and the Black Sea, which includes Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, Barclays PLC said on Monday.
China took home the gold in a controversial finish that left the Ukraine without a medal.
Speaking on the first day of the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., chief executives from over 20 leading multinational corporations called upon 46 countries to lift travel restrictions on HIV-positive individuals.
Poles have streamed into Northern Ireland by the thousands since Poland joined the European Union in 2004.
The Grum botnet, which experts believe is responsible for about 18 percent of the world's spam email traffic, has been shut down, according to security company FireEye, based in Milpitas, Calif. According to M86Security, Grum was responsible for roughly 17.4 percent of the worldwide spam email traffic, which made it officially the third largest active botnet in the world, after Cutwail and Lethic, respectively. In January 2012, however, Grum became the No. 1 spam botnet in the world, accounti...
Japan's female Olympic athletes haven't been treated quite as well as their male counterparts, occasioning new scrutiny into gender equality issues in Japan.
A Jewish human rights group has provided information to Hungarian authorities about a suspected Nazi war criminal, who is currently being investigated for his role in facilitating the murder of hundreds of interned Jews during the World War II.
Laszlo Csatary,who is responsible for the deportation of almost 16,000 Jews during WWII, has been located in Budapest, Hungary although officials are concerned he won't be prosecuted in the notoriously anti-Semitic country.
The Nigerian Supreme Court ruled that the sale of a Nigerian aluminum enterprise to Russian conglomerate RUSAL was in fact illegal. Instead, Nigeria's ALSCON should have gone to the original highest bidder: a U.S. firm called BFI.
Wednesday's protests against a Russian language bill belie a central conflict: Should Ukraine prioritize Russia or the West in diplomatic alliances going forward?
Arsenal continue to be heavily involved in this summer's transfer speculation.
