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Silver and gold production by Endeavour Silver Corp. rose in the third quarter, while revenue jumped 93 percent on higher prices for the two precious metals.

Sony Corp sees little cheer in the normally robust year-end shopping season amid global consumer gloom and has few options to cope with the euro's tumble against the yen, a senior official said.

Hurricane Jova is set to hit the Mexican resort town of Barra de Navidad by Tuesday morning.

More than a hundred people from 24 states have been confirmed as infected with the deadly Listeria monocytogenes bacteria linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

The iPhone 4S preorders topped one million in a single day, breaking the company's single-day sales record held by the iPhone 4. The surging demand for the 4S is seen as a tribute to Steve Jobs, whose death immediately followed the device's release.

The chairman of the House oversight committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Sunday that he could issue subpoenas to the Obama administration as soon as this week over the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking operation.

The price of gold in the fourth quarter will rise to an average of $1,875 per ounce, a nearly 15 percent increase from gold's closing price Friday, Barclays Capital said.

A total of 21 people nationwide have now died in the listeriosis outbreak linked to cantaloupes from a Colorado farm, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said

It wasn't exactly a knockout, but DreamWorks' robot-boxing movie Real Steel packed enough punch to win the domestic box office this weekend with $27.3 million.

The iPhone 4S, which was labelled to be a flop phone by many, has shattered all preorder records of previous iPhone.

The U.S. men's soccer team has, finally, recorded its first win under new coach Jurgen Klinsmann. Clint Dempsey (who plays with Fulham Football Club in England's Premier League) scored on 36 minutes, in an exhibition match against the Honduras on Saturday, to hand Klinsmann his first win in his fourth game in charge of the U.S. national team.

Despite doleful predictions of an epic fail, Apple Inc. has hit yet another out-of-the-park home run with its new iPhone 4S. By all accounts, the new smartphone has had a tremendous response from consumers.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed the second half of the two-part California Dream Act on Saturday, which will make undocumented immigrant students in California eligible for state-funded financial aid for college.

California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill giving illegal immigrant college students access to state-funded financial aid, the second half of two-part legislation known as the Dream Act.

The Prince will be known as Capt. Harry Wales during his time here.

Two worsening tropical storms threaten to hit Mexico's Pacific coast early next week, while a category one hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean is expected to fizzle out before it hits the east coast.

Iowa health officials told reporters Wednesday that a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage after eating cantaloupe containing listeria, a rare yet serious food-borne bacteria-caused illness that arose in early September.

Iowa health officials told reporters Wednesday that a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage after contracting listeriosis, a rare yet serious food-borne illness that arose in early September.

In the aftermath of the botched gun-tracking operation along the Southwest border, called Fast and Furious, which allowed weapons from the United States to pass into the hands of suspected gun smugglers and Mexican drug cartels, two top supervisors at federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), headquarters have been reassigned.

Alamos Gold Inc. posted a 9 percent rise in production at its flagship Mulatos mine in Mexico, and said it was on track to meet its annual output view.

In Iowa state a pregnant woman has suffered a miscarriage after contracting listeria infection traced to cantaloupes