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Shares of silver mining companies Thursday extended the previous day's gains, many rising by more than the increasing value of silver itself.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cleared the way on Thursday for several dozen former doping offenders to compete at next year's Olympics after dismissing the validity of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) eligibility rule.

The Mongolian government, Ivanhoe Mines and partner Rio Tinto have agreed to back a 2009 investment agreement for the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold deposit, ending discussions over possible changes.

Gold prices rose nearly 1 percent Thursday on strong physical buying from Europe and Asia and diminished selling pressure that had arisen from the need to cover stock market losses.

Gold firmed in Europe on Thursday as a strong recovery in equity markets cut selling of the precious metal to cover losses elsewhere, and as physical buyers took advantage of lower prices to stock up.

Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday.

Players and owners are three percentage points away from a potential deal.

Gold rose on Wednesday after dipping below $1,600 an ounce as stock markets appeared to have found their footing, but traders said the metal's correlation with volatile equities could trigger more selling.

Gold prices hovered in a tight range Wednesday as strong physical buying offset renewed optimism among stock investors that Europe might yet avert a sovereign debt-induced recession.

Gold fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday, extending the previous day's hefty losses, as rising equities diverted some interest from the precious metal, and as investors remained wary of buying into the market after its recent sharp volatility.

The first two weeks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season will be canceled if the lockout is not resolved by October 10, league commissioner David Stern said Tuesday.

The hairy crazy ant is invading the southern states of the U.S. from Texas to Florida.

Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels struck at the heart of the capital on Tuesday, killing scores of people with a truck bomb in the group's most deadly attack in the country since launching an insurgency in 2007.

Uncertainty over Yahoo may have attracted interest from Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies as well as from China’s Alibaba Group and Silver Lake Partners.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: SunPower, SodaStream International, Yahoo, Netflix, and LM Ericsson Telephone. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Human Genome Sciences, Savient Pharmaceuticals, ATP Oil & Gas, Century Aluminum, and JDS Uniphase.

Gold prices fell Tuesday, weighed down by panicking investors preparing for the fallout of a Greek sovereign debt default -- damage to European banks and falling business activity on the continent and perhaps the U.S. -- by dumping stocks and abandoning the euro and buying dollars.

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American student Amanda Knox has been acquitted by an Italian appeals court of murdering and sexually assaulting her roommate Meredith Kercher.

Gold prices jumped Monday as growing pessimism over Europe's finance's drove investors out of stocks, the euro and industrial commodities and into the U.S. dollar and the yellow metal.

Gold headed for its largest one-day rise in nearly a month on Monday and silver climbed almost 5 percent after Greece warned it will miss deficit targets set to avoid bankruptcy, unleashing a sell-off in equities and commodities.

Gold retailers in the United Arab Emirates have to be more versatile with their products to avoid falling sales, a senior industry official said on Monday, defying retailers' complaints that the booming gold price has deterred customers.