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Gold prices jumped two percent to hit their highest point in six weeks and regain, at least for now, its traditional role as a safe-haven investment.

Modern Warfare 3, the latest in the Call of Duty video game series, launches next week. Already, though, versions of the game are popping up on auction sites and clips are leaking onto the internet.

The phone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. threatened to spread to other titles on Friday, as sources said a journalist at the Sun newspaper had been arrested over allegations of police bribery.

Gunmen attacked a church in Nigeria late Thursday, killing at least two people.

The European Central Bank cut interest rates by a quarter point to 1.25 percent in a surprise move Thursday, acting boldly to support the ailing euro zone economy at President Mario Draghi's first policy meeting in charge.

Mario Draghi faces a storm at his first policy meeting as European Central Bank president on Thursday but is unlikely to be pushed into a dramatic ramping up the bank's response to the escalating euro zone crisis.

AT&T has announced the release date and price of its HTC Vivid smartphone, one of the long-awaited 4G LTE smartphone models to storm the carrier.

Appcelerator raised $15 million in its latest round of funding, making the developer the largest third-party app publisher for both iOS and Android platforms.

To say that the bankruptcy filing of MF Global and a Greek referendum on its bailout package have unnerved institutional investors would be an understatement. Where's the Dow headed in the next 3-6 months?

Millions of people are still out of power following Saturday's east coast snow storm that swept the Northeast, leaving more people in the dark than Hurricane Irene.

Scientists hypothesize that unseasonably warm temperature spikes during the past two winters may be the result of global warming.

As the situation in Syria continues to deteriorate, President al-Assad warns the Middle East will burn with Western interference.

The Japanese intervention took the forex market by storm late Sunday, sending the Japanese yen over 5 percent lower against the U.S. dollar in a little over one hour.

Nobody dreams of a white Halloween, but millions of people throughout the Northeast got that and more on Saturday when a northeaster dumped several inches of snow and toppled trees and power lines throughout the region.

The 30-year-old funny woman is perhaps best known for her recent Comedy Central Roast controversy.

Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys continue to struggle, Tim Tebow completely disappoints against the Lions, the Cincinnati Bengals continue to fly under the radar, and more in this week's NFL Roundup.

Lady Gaga has taken India by storm, as Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan join local newspapers, business moguls and fans in adoration after the singer's performance at the F1 after-party, her words of praise for the Indian people, and her unexpected skill with the sitar. Gaga's experience touring Indian orphanages, meanwhile, may have inspired her to form a charity for disadvantaged children.

Fueled by wider Eurozone summit rally, industry-specific news out of Germany and a trader-driven assessment that share prices might have reached technical bottoms, shares in various solar panel manufacturers surged Thursday and Friday. Disappointing industry developments, the possibility of negative surprises coming out of China, and the increasingly unforgiving economics of the business, however, mean the industry could face a very stormy fourth quarter.

Decorative displays of pumpkins in New York and New Hampshire lay covered in snow, as a rare and late October winter storm struck the U.S. Northeastern region on Saturday and Sunday. The snow storm also led to power outages.

While some rejoice at the unexpected snow over Halloween weekend, many others in the Northeast face power outages, mass delays, and dangerous driving conditions as the rare snow storm travels up the East Coast. See footage of the storm, including New York' Occupy Wall Street, and view photos of the massive snowfall at MetLife Stadium and across Connecticut and Massachusetts.

After a nor'easter pummeled the area on Saturday, Oct. 29, the Northeast is now clambering to clean up the aftermath. More than 2.3 million customers, stretching from Maryland to New England, lost power on Saturday and early Sunday morning, due to the storm.