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The North Korean leader has died at age 69.

Gold prices will fall below $1,500 an ounce over the next three months and are unlikely to retest September's all-time highs until later 2012 at the earliest, according to a Reuters poll of 20 hedge fund managers, economists and traders.

One day after saying he favored the payroll tax reduction extension agreement approved by the U.S. Senate, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he and his caucus will oppose the tax reduction deal. Boehner said House Republicans now want additional budget reductions to finance the extension agreement.

Iranian state television on Sunday aired what it described as the confession of an Iranian man detained for spying for the CIA.

The real purpose of the SOPA and NDAA bills is to target Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous and other web-based movements that have fueled revolutionaries both here and abroad.

Commodities trader Trafigura's profits soared nearly two-thirds to a record over $1 billion this year, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing a note to bondholders.

The fate of an expiring tax break for 160 million American workers was in doubt on Sunday after the top Republican lawmaker declared his opposition to a two-month extension passed overwhelmingly by the Senate.

Action adventure film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows led a trio of sequels at the box office over another underwhelming weekend that saw ticket sales fall from last year.

The U.S. housing market, once the epicenter of the global financial collapse that spawned today's European debt crisis, is on the verge of delivering some positive news.

Stephen Elop, the first non-Finn to run Nokia, on Sunday quashed rumors the cellphone maker could move its headquarters to the United States from Espoo, a suburb of the Finnish capital Helsinki.

Americans are making progress in working down their heavy debt burden, but they are struggling to break out of another funk holding back the economy: their deep pessimism.

U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp is mulling a 7 billion pound ($10.9 billion) takeover of Kurdistan-focused explorer Gulf Keystone Petroleum, the Independent on Sunday reported.

Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney sought to create doubts about rival Newt Gingrich among South Carolina conservatives on Saturday by criticizing his highly paid work for mortgage giant Freddie Mac.

Last week, investors could finally buy a share of Internet gaming site Zynga, which was priced Thursday at $10 a share in the company’s $1 billion initial public offering. What did they say about other IPOS as well as Facebook's for 2012?

U.S. officials are offering 11 Swiss banks, among them Credit Suisse , a deal that allows them to avoid criminal prosecution in exchange for revealing full details of their U.S. offshore business to Washington, a paper reported on Sunday.

U.S. officials are offering 11 Swiss banks -- Credit Suisse among them -- a deal that would allow them to avoid criminal prosecution in exchange for revealing full details of their U.S. offshore business to Washington, a paper reported on Sunday.

Gold prices will fall below $1,500 an ounce over the next three months and are unlikely to retest September's all-time highs until later next year at the earliest, according to a Reuters poll of 20 hedge-fund managers, economists, and traders.

The U.S. Senate OK'd on Saturday a $1 trillion bill to fund the government and a two-month extension of the payroll-tax cut, capping a contentious political year while preparing the arena for a fresh battle in 2012.

Kate Middleton has topped the list of Ten Best-Mannered People of 2011, compiled by the National League of Junior Cotillions.

As Newt Gingrich surged from an also-ran to a front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, he put a 29-year-old newcomer in as quarterback of his New Hampshire campaign team.

The last convoy of U.S. soldiers pulled out of Iraq on Sunday, ending nearly nine years of war that cost almost 4,500 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and left a country still grappling with political uncertainty.