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Republicans still hoping that another candidate will jump into the presidential race and give the party a better chance of defeating President Barack Obama in 2012 may need to get over it.

Moves by the Swiss National Bank to curb strength of the Swiss franc will fuel investors' insatiable demand for gold, adding to its relentless rise to new record highs as confidence in the franc as a safe store of value dwindles.

Silver is set to sling-shot higher as it plays catchup to gold, creating big opportunities for investors, according to silver bulls.

South Korean trading firm Samsung C&T (000830.KS) said on Monday it was considering taking over independent U.S. oil firm Parallel Petroleum, which a media report said might be worth about $920 million.

With the U.S. recovery having slowed considerably, and Europe debt woes persisting, investors will look to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Jackson Hole, Wyo. speech later this week to provide clues regarding the central bank's evaluation of the economy, and at what point it thinks additional stimulus would be needed.

Private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC is getting ready to buy discount chain 99-Cent Only Stores , the New York Post said.

Children ages 0 to 4 are most at risk, study shows.

About 5,100 children under the age of five, hurt themselves falling from windows each year in the U.S, a new research published in the medical journal Pediatrics shows.

The price of gold early Monday came within $2 of a record high $1,900 per ounce before settling back to 1.2 percent gain over Friday's closing price as a host of global economic worries drove investors into the security of the world's oldest form of money.

Hurricane Irene hits Puerto Rico and approaches Florida, rebels take over Libya's capital, charges may be dropped against Dominique Strauss-Kahn and more in Monday's daily scoop.

Now that her wedding is over, Kim Kardashian might do the nation a favor and advise Obama on how to get the country out of its economic slump.

Here is a brief rundown of important events around the world Monday morning, August 22, 2011.

Video calling firm Skype, which is being acquired by software giant Microsoft, has bought GroupMe, a provider of mobile group messaging services, for less than $100 million.

Prosecutors, of the sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, are likely to drop the charges because of lack of evidence on the part of the accuser and alleged backing of political link ups

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Friday are: Frontline, Weatherford International, CBL & Associates Properties, iSoftStone Holdings and Strategic Hotels & Resorts. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Royal Bank Scotland Group, Accretive Health, Yanzhou Coal Mining Co, Clean Harbors and Liz Claiborne.

Internet voice and video calling giant Skype has agreed to acquire New York-based start-up GroupMe, a move that will let the company get into group messaging service.

Kim Kardashian is now Mrs. Humphries. The reality star married NBA player Kris Humphries on Saturday night and according to details revealed by E! Online and Us magazine, it was indeed a fairytale weeding.

Britain's Andy Murray won the Cincinnati Open Sunday when his opponent in the final, Serbia's world number one Novak Djokovic, retired injured.

Russia's Maria Sharapova beat Serbia's Jelena Jankovic 4-6 7-6 6-3 to win the Cincinnati Open on Sunday and install herself as one of the favorites for the U.S. Open.

Three generations of women from one New York City family died after their SUV flipped several times on I-95 in eastern North Carolina, authorities said on Sunday.

A study that evaluates sci-fi scenarios for extraterrestrial encounters, published in the journal Acta Astronautica, said that E.T. could decide whether we're a threat to intergalactic order and may try to kill us. At the heart of these scenarios is the possibility that intrinsic value may be more efficiently produced in our absence, the researchers wrote.