The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, which goes before the full Senate for a vote.

Even though China is Japan's largest trading partner, a fishing boat row between China and Japan this week highlights tender relations when it comes to disputed territory.

Gryphon Gold Corp. (OTCBB: GYPH; TSX: GGN) is preparing to move into production at its Borealis open pit mine in Mineral County Nevada.  Once in production, the fully-permitted gold mine would rank 6th out of 12 producing gold mines in the state, based on a 50,000 ounce per year production rate.

A stock certificate from the Dutch India Company (its proper name was "Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie" or VOC) and issued in 1606 was discovered in the Netherlands.  Its date precedes a stock certificate from the same company issued two weeks later, which is owned by a group of German investors.

Wrestling star Hulk Hogan was admitted to the Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Fla. on Monday complaining of back pain he says came from bending over to collect sea shells.  Hogan said spasms from his leg up to his hip finally forced him to face the pain and check himself into the hospital.

Set mostly in the desert, this tale of double and triple crosses involving an old miser (Ni Dahong) and his tarty young wife (Yan Ni) is replete with boisterously unfunny black slapstick.