MOSCOW, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A gold deposit estimated at more than 100 tons has been found in Siberia, the Russian National Geological Prospecting Co. announced Tuesday.
UNIONTOWN, Pa., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The Salvation Army says a gold ring appraised at $2,000 was dropped in a Uniontown, Pa., donation kettle where it was found by charity workers.
BOSTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The United States says it will return some of the cash and gold it seized from a Baltimore man accused of kidnapping his own daughter.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, who won a record-setting eight Olympic gold medals this year, was selected the 2008 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.
SYDNEY, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Australian swimmer Grant Hackett, the only person to win the same event at four consecutive World Championships, has retired.
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The Russian Kamchatka Peninsula contains major gold and silver reserves, a Institute of Volcanology and Seismology scientist said Friday.
HOUSTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. chemists say they've discovered a technology that permits them to produce ultra-pure gold nanorods that are about 99 percent pure.
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 9 (UPI) -- U.S.-led scientists say they have, for the first time, achieved state-of-the-art resolution of active gold nanocrystals absorbed onto iron oxide surfaces.
NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. Olympic champion Michael Phelps reportedly is to appear in an upcoming episode of the HBO comedy series "Entourage."
NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps is to act as host of the 34th season premiere of "Saturday Night Live," NBC announced.
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Notes from the Olympic medal standings:
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Hungary won the Olympic gold medal Sunday in men's water polo.
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- France won the Olympic gold medal Sunday in men's team handball, the last of the 302 events contested in the Beijing Games.
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The United States won the Olympic gold medal Sunday in men's basketball.
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Bakhyt Sarsekbayev of Kazakhstan won the Olympic gold medal Sunday in the welterweight boxing class.
