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India gold futures rose by more than half a percent on Wednesday to hit their highest level in two weeks on firm global leads fanned by a weaker rupee at home.

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Gold prices barely moved Tuesday as investors waited to see if Eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels will agree to strengthen the continent's bailout fund to insure sovereign debt.

French film and stage actor Alain Delon sold a thousand bottles of his wine collection on Saturday with a big Chinese buyer pushing the auction results well above pre-sale estimates.

Seabridge Gold Inc said drilling at its Courageous Lake project in Canada's Northwest Territories showed significant expansion of a gold zone that could more than quadruple the zone's contribution to measured and indicated resources.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered local governments to shut small gold mines with a daily ore processing capacity of less than 50 tonnes and is working on a plan to consolidate the sector, the Shanghai Securities News said on Tuesday.

The CT lottery jackpot win has resulted in Greenwich, Conn., wealth managers pocketing a $254 million prize.

Simone Bora is contemplating the unthinkable -- an Indian wedding without lavish amounts of gold after record high prices and a sinking rupee have dimmed her hopes of sparkling at the party.

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Gold prices barely moved Tuesday as investors awaited the outcome of a critical Eurozone meeting expected to approve a boost to the continent's bailout fund and OK the next tranche of aid to debt-choked Greece.

Simone Bora is contemplating the unthinkable - an Indian wedding without lavish amounts of gold - after record high prices and a sinking rupee dimmed her hopes of sparkling at the party.

Asian shares and the euro extended a rally into a second day Tuesday as investors were buoyed by expectations that European policy makers will outline details of how they will leverage a bailout fund to avert contagion in sovereign debt markets.

Gold rebounded to a one-week high following the substitution of last week's selling pressures with expectations of a stronger effort by euro-zone leaders to stem the spread of the sovereign-debt crisis. Spot gold held steady above $1,700 per ounce on Tuesday.

Olympic gold medalist and top American skier Lindsey Vonn is divorcing husband and chief adviser Thomas Vonn after four years of marriage.

A gay couple claims that a United Airlines manager used an antigay slur during an argument at Denver International Airport.

Two brave Bronx firefighters came to the rescue of a teenage girl on Saturday after a mugger robbed the girl of a gold chain.

Steven Spielberg's War Horse may be one of the final awards contenders to be unveiled this year, but after a month of sporadic screenings, DreamWorks unveiled it with a vengeance this weekend.

Gold prices surged Monday along with equities on hope that drastic action by France and Germany can save the Eurozone from its two-year-old sovereign debt crisis.

Stocks surged about three percent on Monday on hopes that fresh proposals may emerge out of Europe to help solve the region's debt crisis.

Silver mining company shares rocketed higher Monday as the price of the gray metal surged and the broader stock market indexes rose more than three percent.

Gold miner Polyus Gold's plans for a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange have been delayed, after an investment committee chaired by prime minister Vladimir Putin said it would not consider approval for the move until 2012.