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The solid demand for gold is not supported just by private individuals and panicky investors, but countries like China, India and Russia are ramping up investment in the yellow metal.

The backlash is complete, almost, for failed doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping. Even as the world is waiting to hear from the false prophet, a member of his inner circle has fired the first salvo, saying Camping owes an apology to the public. For Harold Camping, the moment of truth is even more embarrassing and potentially destabilizing. Followers will desert, his movement could break up into smithereens and he will be called upon to answer possible financial irregularities surrounding what is ...

Christian preacher Harold Camping's laughable attempt to upstage the Mayans, and predict the end of the world a year before the ancient Americans' billing, has gone horribly wrong, leaving his followers devastated, both financially and psychologically. Some people, reacting on Twitter, reserved the harshest comments for Harold Camping and his failed prophesy. Others have ruminated over the possible legal implications Camping will face.

Iceland’s Grimsvotn volcano has started erupting, emitting plumes of smoke 18,000 foot, according to reports. According to Iceland’s Meteorological Office, the volcanic eruption was accompanied by a series of small earthquakes.

May 21 Doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping's prediction has bombed, expectedly so. New Zealand’s Christmas Island was not hit by any earthquake even after the appointed time of the apocalypse passed the region.

The Doomsday clock is ticking away! If Harold Camping's prediction turns true, the rumblings of a gigantic earthquake will be felt in New Zealand in less than two hours from now! And then, the Armageddon will roll over to the other regions of the world and engulf them in the biggest catastrophe ever! A live poll on the IB Times website shows 3.36 percent of voters are convinced that the world will end on May 21, 2011. A poll on Slashdot shows 3 percent of the people subscribe to Harold Campi...

History will remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a man who put the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the road to decline, and that the new leadership should bring about a fundamental rethink of the fund's economic programs for the European periphery, leading think tank American Enterprise Institute has said.

Doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping insists that the world will end in a few hours from now, with a destructive earthquake pulverizing each region of the world at 6 P.M. local time. The vast majority see the end of the world prediction as farcical and hallucinatory talk of someone who thinks so highly about himself that he can't imagine a world that outlives him. However there is a minority who get jitters as the appointed time of the apocalypse nears.

The million-dollar question surrounding the killing of terror master mind Osama Bin Laden seems to have been answered. According to reports, the U.S. government will not pay out the $25 million reward the Department of State had announced years ago for anyone giving clues leading to his capture.

President Barack Obama has said Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi will either leave power soon or be forced out. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Gaddafi's wife and daughter Aisha have fled to Tunisia.

A Senate panel reserved angry words for Facebook executives for the social networking giant’s apparent failure in preventing under-age people from having access to the network.

If Oakland preacher Harold Camping's doomsday prediction comes true on May 21, 2011, what is left on the terra firma will be a handful of dust and splinters of bones. But the moot question is, how FAR from truth is the musings of the 88-year-old minister?

Days after restoring the PlayStation Network that had been taken down after a massive hacker attack, Sony faced niggling issues with some features on the PlayStation website and had to temporarily take it off.

Beleaguered IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has said he is quitting as Managing Director of the Fund with immediate effect. Strauss-Kahn, who is facing sexual assault charges in New York and is in jail currently, issued a statement saying he has informed the IMF executive board of his intention to step down with immediate effect, BBC reported.

President Barack Obama's handling of the economy remains a concern for Americans, though the killing of Bin Laden has boosted his overall poll ratings, according to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

A bill to repeal a $21 billion tax breaks to the oil industry failed in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, despite both the Republicans and the Democrats being focused on reducing the federal deficit.

A new study has revealed that Netflix movies account for a lion's share of peak hour Internet traffic within the United States. The Sandvine Inc study shows that web browsing now accounts for only less than 17 percent of peak hour traffic, with Netflix movies and TV shows shattering the lead held by web browsing and peer-to-peer file sharing even late into the last year.

Sony chief executive Howard Stringer apparently downplayed the severity and gravity of the massive hacker attack on the company’s PlayStation Network, saying the security breach and the subsequent service outage were a hiccup and that no networks are 100 percent secure.

A mass grave has been found in the Syrian city of Deraa, the epicenter of the recent bout of anti-government protests in the country, according to the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria, a Syrian rights group.

The French media is actively discussing whether Dominique Strauss-Kahn has an alibi in the sexual assault case even as it emerged that more women had called him a sexual predator.

Apple has given more stuff to rumor mills to chew on. If tech enthusiasts are tired of reading up the latest rumored iPhone 5 feature, they can now ruminate over the possible ways in which the tech giant is going to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its retails store opening.

Improvised explosive devices were found on a Dublin-bound bus and at a tram stop near Dublin hours before the British Queen was to land in the city, the first time in 100 years for a British monarch to visit the Republic of Ireland.

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak will apologize to the nation and plead for amnesty, the Muslim Brotherhood has said in a report published in its site, even as prosecutors tightened the noose around the 82-year old former dictator and his family.

After enlivening the U.S. presidential campaign scene for three months billionaire businessman Donald Trump said on Monday he will not be running for the top political office.

Skeletons kept tumbling out of disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn even as his defenders maintained his adversaries framed him in the sex assault case in New York. Close on the heels of his fall from grace, a Paris woman said Strauss-Kahn had tried to rape her ten years ago. The 31-year-old woman, Tristane Banon, Strauss-Kahn's latest accuser, is the god-daughter of his second wife.

While some economists consider the very idea of a debt ceiling as strange, public opinion is sharply divided over whether the Congress should raise the limit or let the government default.

An Israeli war ship has attacked a vessel carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza in the international waters, the Centre for Research and Globalization said in a repot posted in its website.

Almost 24 hours after Sony restored the PlayStation Network and Qriocity in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, there was no word on the restoration of the services in Japan and the rest of Asia. Meanwhile, there have been reports that the PSN restoration in the U.S. and Europe was far from being a smooth affair, with occasional server glitches slowing down the process much to the disappointment of avid fans who skipped sleep to lay hands on favored games.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who has been charged with a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, will be arraigned on Monday.