"The desire for gold fashion was born in the world's first grand civilization in Egypt where Tutankhamun wore linens embroidered with the precious metal. All great empires then followed in this tradition, from the Chinese dynasties to Russian Tsars to …

A gang of fraudsters who helped up to 250 Bangladeshi immigrants con their way towards British citizenship and a 'gold mine' of benefits was jailed for nearly 20 years yesterday. Charging a minimum of £10,000 per person, they provided each with bogus …

An employee of the German Federal Bank checks the core of a bar of gold during a press conference at the German Federal Bank in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. – AFP picTOKYO, Aug 2 — Stocks rallied in Europe and Asia, while oil touched a …

"There's a lot of very wealthy people that are going to own gold as a defensive hedge for what they're fearing is that whole Weimar Republic thing, where either the Europeans or the United States aggressively prints money, where the multiplier effect …

OIL has been around for a long time. Some 6,000 years ago it was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East. The Chinese refined it to use in lamps around 1,000 years ago. But the oil industry only got going in the 1860s after the first wells were …

Ryan Lochte of the United States, left, shows his gold medal as he squats alongside China's Sun Yang who holds his bronze medal after the medal ceremony for the men's 4×200 freestyle relay final at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, …

BARCELONA (AFP) – Australia's Cate Campbell won the women's 100m freestyle gold at the swimming world championships on Friday as US star Missy Franklin missed out on claiming a fifth medal in Barcelona. The 21-year-old Campbell earned her first …

Barcelona, Spain – American Ryan Lochte picked up a pair of gold medals Friday at the 2013 World Swimming Championships, while Missy Franklin was kept off the podium for the first time this week. Lochte won individual gold in the men's 200-meter …

Bullion still posted a near 2 percent loss for its biggest weekly drop in five weeks, weighed down by a dollar rally. Gold initially fell to a two-week low at $1,280 an ounce as encouraging U.S. gross domestic product and factory activity data earlier …