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Zambia has lifted a ban on metal exports, just two days after imposing it to sort out irregularities and increase transparency in Africa's top cooper producer, a minerals ministry official said on Thursday.

Gold fell in choppy trade on Thursday after the European Central Bank held off flagging an imminent cut in interest rates, deflating an earlier rally in assets seen as higher risk, such as equities and the euro.

Now the Palestinian spring has arrived, asking for freedom and an end to the [Israeli] occupation. We deserve your support.

As of today, for as little as $35 you can own a tablet computer—thanks to India. This is huge in the economy of development technologies, but is it enough to close the digital divide?

High in the hills of Congo's troubled northeast, a modern mine is ready to pour gold for the first time in five decades.

Gold firmed in Europe on Thursday as a strong recovery in equity markets cut selling of the precious metal to cover losses elsewhere, and as physical buyers took advantage of lower prices to stock up.

European stock index futures rose on Thursday, after short-covering and value-hunting lifted Asian shares on optimism that euro zone leaders are acting to aid the bloc's financial sector and U.S. data suggesting the economy could avoid recession.

It may look like a glorified salon chair, but a new Japanese hair-washing robot replicates the dexterous touch of a human hand to care for the locks of the elderly and the infirm.

Paris Fashion Week ended like it started with a positive and relaxed spirit and a skillful bow by Lebanese designer Elie Saab with a glamorous 1970s collection for next summer inspired by the American TV series Charlie's Angels.

-- The Apple chairman and former Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs passed away on Wednesday after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old, reported China's Xinhua news agency. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives, Apple said in a statement. The world is immeasurably better because of Stev...

Give Steve Jobs credit: while nobody can possibly know how Apple will fare without its co-founder and Chairman, the company has a qualified CEO and management team. In Silicon Valley these days, that's a major difference.

Following the suit of HP and the $99 TouchPad sale, India plans to introduce a $35 tablet computer dubbed Aakash for students, which will be the least expensive tablet in the world.

In 2008, Microsoft tried -- and spectacularly failed -- to buy Yahoo at a price of $33 per share, which valued the company at about $47.5 billion. Yahoo now has a market cap of about $20 billion and is trading at just under $16 per share.

Thousands of consumers from some of the largest countries around the world are demanding a higher level of responsibility from companies in dealing with societal issues and consumers are using their own spending and loyalty to push these issues, according to a new report.

A five percent tax surcharge on the wealthiest that Senate Democrats propose would cover President Barack Obama's roughly $450 billion jobs package.

The smartphone market is facing plenty of superphones from different manufacturers, but only two -- Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S2 -- are the devices that people might prefer over others due to the beautiful designs.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said his government has scored initial success in taming inflation, and told banks to lend more to small firms and tolerate high levels of bad debt from them, official media reported on Wednesday.

Representatives of the Dalai Lama, who is based in northern India, began the visa application process in June.

Turkey’s military coincidentally plans to conduct a routine exercise near the Syrian border through next week.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a modestly higher open on Wednesday after European finance ministers appeared ready to prop up struggling banks and a report on the U.S. labor market came in better than expected.

Private sector business activity shrank in the euro zone for the first time in two years last month as new orders dried up, stoking fears that the economy could be heading back into recession, surveys showed on Wednesday.