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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday he will nationalize the gold industry, including extraction and processing, and use its output to boost the country's international reserves.

Following reports showing Microsoft's Xbox 360 console going from strength-to-strength, news has broken that the company is being sued for charging customers without consent.

Rapper Kanye West claimed people treat him "like Hitler," during his headline show at The Big Chill festival in Herefordshire, England, on Saturday.

Debenhams recreate the famous dress that Pippa Middleton wore as a bridesmaid to her sister Kate's royal wedding.

Sony have released a fresh trailer revealing new details about the highly anticipated Resistance 3.

Just a week before the Aug. 2 deadline for Congress to act, hope for a compromise between Republican and Democratic proposals, and with Washington looking stuck in an impasse, Washington the mood in the U.S. is becoming more and more tensed as the risks of a downgrade to the top-notch US credit rating are looming everyday a little bit closer.

The pick of today's Manchester United football transfer rumours, news, gossip and talk. All the latest transfer rumours surrounding Man Utd will be covered here.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley believes pension changes to be "unrealistic", a leaked letter shows.

Playboy's August issue does wonders for anyone wanting to know of the greatest bars to visit for a drink and dance after the sun goes down.

Is Britain on The Brink of Another Financial Crisis?

Following the successful launch of Google+, the tech giant has introduced a new feature called Google News badges to allow users to keep track of, and gain recognition for, the content they consume online.

Investigators probing Wednesday's bomb blasts in Mumbai which killed at least 18 and injured 131 are zeroing in on the likely involvement of the Indian Mujahideen, a domestic terrorist group.

Calendario Copa America 2-24 July, 2011. Teenage striker Joel Campbell inspired Costa Rica to a 2-0 victory over nine-man Bolivia to leave Argentina's Copa America future under threat.

The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to examine the source and antiquity of the treasure unearthed from the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram.

Some of the heat has come out of the Aussie over the last 24 hours after the RBA doused expectations of two further rate hikes this year. This could see the Aussie come back to test support at 1.0600. After seeing a move back to 1.0600, traders could then be looking to a bounce from support.

A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a south Indian temple has unearthed gold, jewels and statues worth an estimated $22 billion, government officials said Monday.

Last year's Iceland ash cloud caused many Britons to check their travel insurance policies for an eventuality that few had previously considered. So, few could have imagined that the industry would have to deal with a similar episode so soon after the first with forecasters warning that the plume from the Grimsvotn volcano could be blown to northern Scotland tomorrow, and the rest of Britain by Thursday.

Avram Grant was sacked as West Ham United manager last night, less than an hour after a 3-2 defeat to fellow strugglers Wigan confirmed their relegation from the Premier League.

One of the "forgotten" former headline stories was the catastrophic flooding in Queensland, Australia. Here is a snippet of what has been happening.

Shares in British banks were down on the FTSE 100 after Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, made a speech yesterday.

A new study has suggested that online games, such as the popular World of Warcraft game, may help economic development in countries such as China and Vietnam.

We were expecting the parabolic move in commodity prices to be interrupted by a correction at some point. While it could not have been anticipated as the catalyst for a pullback, the catastrophe in Japan two weeks ago prompted a sizeable sell-off in risk assets, including commodities. The question is whether in the aftermath of this event, or other lingering concerns, commodities can restart a substantive move to higher levels.

Read here the full text of Chancellor George Osborne's Budget speech to the House of Commons.

Shares in Fresnillo were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the mining group reported a more than doubling of pre-tax profit in 2010.

On 17 December 2010, a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire because a female municipal official and her aides had had his goods confiscated. This sparked protests against the Government for a variety of grievances, social, economic and political.

The federal fiscal policy debate is being overwhelmed by a growing sense that America must slash its deficit now, before it is too late. Actually, the United States is in no danger of a Treasury debt crisis and can carry far more debt than people believe without dire consequences.

West Ham Football Club are apparently in front for the race to own the Olympics venue once the £547m stadium is finished. The stadium which was planned to be retained as the new home of UK athletics is undergoing a formal bid process which begins today to find a 'shared' ownership scheme so that athletics could be prepositioned alongside, something else, for example football.

Brendan Gold, from Unite union has announced that the strike action for the end of August has been called off after talks.

BAA's planned strike action is going ahead after the Unite press conference concluded with a vote three-to-one against the 1 pct pay offer on the table.

Shares in Randgold Resources fell on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading, despite the mining firm reporting a rise in quarterly and half year profit today.