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China is likely to export 45 million tonnes of steel products in 2011, up 5.7 percent compared with last year, the industry ministry said on Tuesday.

The only known transparent "Ghost Car" was sold at an auction for $308,000

Some car enthusiasts prefer black - some red. But a buyer at a Michigan auction Saturday got a truly one-of-a-kind color -- transparent.

Zambian President Rupiah Banda dissolved parliament on Thursday and set September 20 as the date for elections that are likely to hand him and his Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) another five years in power in Africa's biggest copper producer.

Pakistani security forces are routinely detaining, torturing and murdering hundreds of political activists in Balochistan in what some observers describe as a ?dirty war.?

In a rundown patch of Detroit, enclosed by a cyclone fence and barbed wire, stands an unremarkable warehouse that investment bank Goldman Sachs has transformed into a money-making machine.

Chinese smelters expect supplies of copper concentrate to rise as early as late 2012, paving the way for higher charges, as neighbouring Mongolia's Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine starts to come onstream, industry sources said on Tuesday.

The official story of the 33 trapped Chilean miners will find its way to a theater near you in the coming years as Hollywood announces a new film produced by Mike Medavoy with a screenplay by "Motorcycle Diaries" writer Jose Rivera.

Toronto's main stock index looked set to open lower on Monday, hurt by news of major job cuts at Research In Motion Ltd (RIM.TO: Quote) and an impasse in U.S. debt ceiling talks that fueled worries of a U.S. default.

Alongside its highly anticipated releases Mac OS X Lion and Intel Sandy Bridge-based MacBook Air, Apple also launched the world's first Thunderbolt Display.

When thieves ransacked eight air conditioners in an apartment complex in the city of Mobile, Alabama, the culprits made off with $800 worth of scrap metal and left residents with $38,000 worth of damages.

New research has found that the use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care units (ICU) kill bacteria that can cause hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).

New research has found copper to be an effective antimicrobial agent, killing nearly all pathogens in certain parts of hospitals, for instance.

Huguette Clark, the Montana copper mining heiress who died at 104 in New York last month has left most of her $400 million fortune to the arts, the Associated Press reported.

The solar eclipse today may have already meant bad tidings for grounded Australian airport shut-ins

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Oxford Industries, Cabot Oil & Gas, International Game Technology, Molycorp, LDK Solar Co, Radioshack, McDonalds, Gap, AK Steel Holding, Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Citigroup.

A recent deadly E.coli outbreak in Europe has already killed 18 people, 17 of them in Germany. The 17th German victim, an 81-year-old woman passed away in the early hours of Thursday morning from the enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) bacterium, a kidney specialist at the clinic in the northern city of Hamburg said.

A recent deadly E.coli outbreak in Europe has already killed 18 people, 17 of them in Germany.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Tuesday are: American Realty Investors, Southern Copper Corp, Hovnanian Enterprises, McDermott International and Thompson Creek Metals Co. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Sequans Communications, Magnetek, Gramercy Capital Corp, Armour Residential REIT, Polaris Industries and Inergy, L.P.

Chinese gold demand could rise over 22 percent in the next three years and sharply outpace domestic production, the head of the country's largest state-owned gold miner China National Gold Group said on Thursday, signalling room for a strong ramp up in imports.

Obituaries for wealthy recluse Huguette Clark have reignited questions about the final resting place of Clark's fortunes, estimated at around half a billion dollars.