Gold miners, however, are not participating in the rally today. Newmont Mining (NEM) has dropped 1.8% to $32.62, Goldcorp (GG) has gained 0.1% to $31.30 and Barrick Gold (ABX) has fallen 1.6% to $19.50. The Market Vectors Goldminers ETF (GDX) has …

Brianna Nelson of Victoria became Canada's latest gold-medal winner at the International Paralympic Committee swimming world championships in Montreal on Saturday, finishing first in the women's S7 50-metre butterfly. It was the first big international …

New Delhi: A man was arrested today for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country gold bars valued at about Rs 27 lakh by hiding it in his rectum at the airport in Delhi. Acting on a tip-off, the 30-year-old man was intercepted by custom officials …

Ugandan Stephen Kiprotich added the world marathon gold to his Olympic title on Saturday, again shutting out strong Ethiopian and Kenyan squads. The Ugandan prison warden clocked 2hr 09min 51sec around the streets of Moscow, with Ethiopian duo …

Hosts Russia cheered double gold from high jumper Svetlana Shkolina and the women's 4x400m relay for first place in the medal table with a 7-3-5 tally ahead of the US, who have however garnered more medals with a 6-11-3 haul. Olympic champion …

This easy win, coupled with another last weekend in the 100, gives him seven career gold medals at the worlds. He needs just one more to tie Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson for most among men. And Bolt will go for another in the 4×100 relay Sunday.

Evidence seems to be mounting that global economic activity seems finally to be accelerating-maybe even creating a more classically rapid recovery, as opposed to the rather anaemic variety we have so far enjoyed. UK economic data is already on a roll …

At the presentation titled: Africa as the Last Frontier: Why it Matters in the Global Economy, the CBN top official while speaking on globalization, said that it was not neutral, stressing that African countries could not assume that globalization was …

And given the logic of basic economics, which tells us a reduction in profit is usually a bad thing, the implication could be that successful efforts to eliminate slavery-derived profits will damage the global economy. But this is not the case, and the …