More than 60 miners were killed this week in the Darfur region when the gold mine they were working in collapsed, a police spokesman said Thursday. The mine in the Jebel Amir area of North Darfur had ... Read more
What do you get when you combine evangelical fervor with leverage and rising speculation? The gold market, circa 2013. In the more than four decades since President Richard M. Nixon ... Read more
Stocks on Wall Street rose Tuesday, bouncing back after their worst decline since early November, following solid earnings from Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson, and inflation data that reinforced ... Read more
Below the streets of Lower Manhattan, in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the world’s largest trove of gold — half a million bars — has lost about $75 billion of its value. ... Read more
LONDON, Ontario (AP) — Kim Yu-na was in a class all her own ahead of the Vancouver Olympics, so far superior there was no way anyone was going to steal that gold medal from her. Four years later, not much has ... Read more
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Even though he lived in the same quiet neighborhood for decades, no one seemed to know Walter Samaszko Jr. He was so unknown that weeks passed before authorities discovered he had died ... Read more
VAL DI FIEMME, Italy (AP) — Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins gave the United States its first world championship gold medal in cross-country skiing Sunday by winning the women's team sprint by nearly eight ... Read more
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Michael Phelps still hops in the pool occasionally, but only so the most decorated Olympian of all-time can get a little peace and quiet. "Whenever I'm in the pool I don't have to answer ... Read more
MUMBAI, India (AP) — India's steep new tax on gold imports doesn't deter Mousumi Rao as she holds up a glittering $5,000 filigree necklace that could adorn her daughter on her wedding day. Rao's daughter isn't ... Read more
SCHLADMING, Austria (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin might as well be dancing or flying. That's what skiing is like for the American teenager these days. The victories and milestones keep piling up, fortifying a U.S. ... Read more