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Kate's ring made of rare Welsh gold

Prince William and Catherine Middleton continued the 88 year tradition of the British monarchy to use wedding ring made of rare Welsh gold. Ironically, it was May 1999 when Gordon Brown sold half of Britain's gold reserves at rock bottom prices, squandering many billions of the national wealth.

Royal Wedding with Royal Bridesmaids (Photos)

The Royal Wedding ended but people around the world especially England is still in a festival mode. The Royal Wedding was almost all smiles on Friday, but for one very unhappy bridesmaid. Grace van Cutsem - just three years old - seemed unhappy camper. There are some funny and cute moment pictures of bridesmaids and pageboys.
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Silver and gold near lifetime highs

Silver and gold were within sight of historic highs on Friday and could resume an uptrend as the U.S. dollar held near three-year lows against a basket of currencies on hopes U.S. monetary policy would stay ultra-loose, keeping inflationary price pressures high.
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Nokia axes 7,000 jobs to slash costs

Nokia will axe 7,000 jobs and outsource its legacy Symbian activities to slash 1 billion euros ($1.46 billion) of costs as it struggles to compete in the fierce smartphone market.
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We should have been safe with Sony, say gamers

Sony PlayStation gamers expressed shock and disappointment on Wednesday at a massive data hack in which their names, addresses and credit-card details might have been stolen from the PlayStation Network.
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U.S. buyout dominance likely to recede: Carlyle

America's global dominance of the private equity industry will likely remain for only a handful more years, as other geographies grow stronger and rival firms around the world flex their muscles, Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein predicted on Tuesday.

At Europe’s doorstep, Turkey’s role in Middle East changes and evolves

International Business Times spoke to Dilshod Achilov, a professor of political science at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, Tenn., to discuss Turkey’s evolving role in the Middle East, how it is handling the revolutions in the Arab world and its chances for accession into the EU.
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A fragile global recovery?

Data on how the U.S. and British economies fared in the first three months of the year due next week will likely highlight the tenuous nature of the recovery from recession in developed countries.

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