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Silver touched its highest USD price in 31 years and palladium a 10-year peak. Gold prices rose above $1,400 an ounce on Monday for the first time in nearly seven weeks as violence flared in north Africa and the Middle East, boosting interest in the precious metal as a haven from risk.

Despite the reported deal between Carmelo Anthony and the New Jersey Nets, the New York Knicks remain active in trade talks to acquire the Nuggets forward.

Russia’s leading search engine Yandex is set to raise $1 billion through an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

E.Life, a social media monitoring and analysis vendor, used its Tweetmeter software to find out whether Twitter could predict the Academy Award winners.

Gold inched up on Monday, adding to a weekly gain of nearly 3 percent last week as fears over a European debt crisis and growing unrest in the Middle East underpinned investor sentiment.

Protesters in Bahrain appeared to gain the initiative on Saturday and mourners buried their dead in western Libya as the wave of protest washing across the Arab world tested more of the region's longtime rulers.

It would be a natural progression from singing to acting.

In response to the Bloomberg administration's invitation, Stanford University is considering a research and graduate teaching center, focused on applied science and technology, in New York.

New York City mayor Michael Rubens Bloomberg has joined forces with some of the biggest names in the fashion industry like Oscar de la Renta, Brooks Brothers, Malia Mills and Diane von Furstenberg to implement immigration reforms and promote easier visa procedure for international workers.

The Friends star may be leaving Los Angeles for New York.

The months of negotiations between TerreStar Networks and its creditors may well have been for nothing, as EchoStar has pulled out of an agreement to backstop the company's bankruptcy plan.

According to Bergen Record NBA reporter Al Iannazzone, the New Jersey Nets and Denver Nuggets have agreed in principle to a trade that would send Carmelo Anthony to Newark.

Dave Duerson, who played strong safety on the 1985 Chicago Bears who won Super Bowl XX, was found dead in his Miami home. He was 50 years old.

New York Yankees’ A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez) is to close a deal on a five-bedroom condo overlooking the Hudson River on the Upper West Side.

ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons announced Friday details of a new website he is launching as well as some of the staff members being added.

A week of high-end fashion has come to a close as Mercedes Benz Fashion Week wrapped up Thursday evening with its final shows.

Gold hit five-week highs in Europe on Friday and silver its strongest since 1980 as growing unrest in the Middle East lifted interest in precious metals, though another reserve requirement hike from China curbed gains.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (CMG.N) fired about 450 workers in Minnesota after an audit by U.S. immigration officials flagged questionable worker eligibility documents, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audited the company's Minnesota restaurants, which led to the dismissals mentioned above.

As authorities in Middle East countries hit by protests continue to censor media and disrupt communication, deaths and the consequent funerals in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya are expected to escalate the unrest.

This will be their fifth outing together.

Marat Mihaylich, a native of Ukraine, has topped the list of criminals wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).