Todmorden youngster Lewis Kipping returned from last weekend's Irish Open Artificial Slope Ski Championships with gold and silver medals. The 12-year-old, who attends Calder High School, was among around 100 racers from Ireland, England, Scotland …

Kholodenko is the first gold-medal winner of the Cliburn competition to perform with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, although a dozen or so years ago, the symphony hosted Israel's Aviram Reichert, third-place winner of the 1997 Cliburn Competition.

Rising star Myles Brown won his second gold medal of the gala for a comfortable win his specialist 1500m event, while four-time Olympian Roland Schoeman grabbed silver in the 50m freestyle. Le Clos first underpinned that he is the dominant force in the …

Dubai: The year-to-date volumes on the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) registered a growth of 69 percent over last year, with a total of 11,357,329 contracts traded until the end of the third quarter of 2013. The growth was supported by a 2 …

"You would think," offers John Waggoner in USA Today, "that the threat of a government default would send gold soaring. In default, after all, those who normally buy government debt would flee, driving down the value of US currency on foreign markets.

Protesters marched past government headquarters yelling, "Your treason is measured in gold!" Demonstrations also took place in other cities, including the city of Cluj, where thousands called for the 2,000 year-old site where the open-cast mine will be …

Edinburgh won gold in the large city category of the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain in Bloom Awards last night. Edinburgh Council environment convener Lesley Hinds, said: “This is fantastic news, I am delighted that Edinburgh has won such a …

In London, gold was down 3.4 per cent to a weekly close below $1,270 an ounce, while platinum was down 1.2 per cent. Silver was a tad down (-0.6 per cent), but palladium bucked the trend by gaining 0.8 per cent. Oil WTI was down 1.9 per cent over the …

State regulators are investigating why air pollution control devices were not properly placed at ore-crushing facilities at a gold and silver mine outside Virginia City, while mine operators are awaiting a new permit they say could allow them to double …