Also Wednesday, ladies clothing retailer Chico FAS more than doubled its first quarter earnings versus last year.

FORBES: Retail Earnings: Target, Chico, Ralph Lauren

Also Wednesday, the researchers who cloned Dolly the sheep introduced five cloned pigs in the journal Nature.

CNN: Researchers clone pigs

Also Wednesday night, Bill Clinton compared Obama's campaign with his own successful bid for the presidency in 1992.

FORBES: Obama Accepts Nomination

Also Wednesday, an Iranian military official issued a warning against any provocative actions.

CNN: Iran: Time running out over nuke issue

Also Wednesday, a U.S. soldier was killed and three others wounded in combat west of Baghdad, the military said.

CNN: Bombers kill 4 Iraqis, injure 11 GIs

Also Wednesday, a former Edwards staffer testified about his travels with Edwards in 2006, before the latter announced his candidacy.

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Also Wednesday, the airport authority in Nigeria, where AbdulMutallab's flight to Amsterdam originated, announced plans to add body scanners to its security system.

CNN: Body scanners not 'magic technology' against terror

Also Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee's leading members said Sullivan provided a "detailed response" to their separate list of questions about the incident.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Also Wednesday, as part of the follow-up to the State of the Union speech, Vice President Joe Biden went to Indiana to tour Ener1 Inc.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Also Wednesday, South Korean investigators said an Internet shutdown last month one of the largest disruptions ever to hit the country's computer systems was the work of North Korea's military-intelligence agency.

WSJ: Seoul Raises Alert Ahead of Expected Test

Also Wednesday, Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan, called for a Justice Department investigation into the possible connection between ads run by the swift boat group and the president's re-election campaign.

CNN: Political drama unfolds as letter carriers fail to deliver

Also Wednesday, police identified a 26-year-old man who had been discovered shot in the head Monday night in a vehicle in the south London town of Croydon as Trevor Ellis.

CNN: Following four nights of frenzy, an eerie calm in Britain

Also Wednesday, a new national poll showed Americans are split over whether Obama is taking too long to decide whether to send more U.S. troops to the war in Afghanistan.

CNN: Obama seeks revisions to Afghanistan plans, sources say

Also Wednesday, South Korean investigators said that an Internet shutdown last month one of the largest disruptions ever to hit the country's computer systems had been the work of North Korea's military-intelligence agency.

WSJ: Seoul on Alert to Missile Test by North

Also Wednesday, three people were killed and 15 wounded in a car bomb attack at the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Tuz Khurmato, 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of Kirkuk.

CNN: Dozens killed in attacks in Iraq

Also Wednesday, a public prosecutor decided to send Hosni Mubarak -- who has spent the last few months detained in a military hospital -- back to prison, prosecutor spokesman Mahmoud Hefnawi told the state-run al-Ahram newspaper.

CNN: Mubarak retrial scheduled for May 11

Also Wednesday, Obama's campaign used former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new book attacking the Bush administration as a means to take a swipe at McCain, connecting what Obama called "the failed Bush policies" to McCain.

CNN: McCain targets Obama for not going to Iraq

Also Wednesday, police raided a home in the northwestern city of Peshawar on a tip that suspected militants were hiding there, ensuing a gunbattle during which two police officers were killed, a senior police officer Liaquat Ali Khan said.

NPR: Pakistan's Imran Khan Has 3 Fractured Vertebrae

Also Wednesday, Yemen's prime minister denied reports in the Yemen Times and The Washington Post that Yemeni investigators had evidence linking the two suspects who died in the attack on the Cole to the 1998 truck bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa.

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It was also reported Wednesday that German industrial output fell more than expected, while Euro zone retail sales also declined in September.

FORBES: P.M. Kitco Metals Roundup: Gold Ends Near Steady but Down from Daily High amid Bearish Outside Markets

Also on Wednesday, Mr. Heins appeared on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight, " touting the phone.

WSJ: RIM to Launch New BlackBerry in U.S. Friday, Aims to Challenge Apple and Samsung

New York manager Joe Girardi expects Youkilis will also miss Wednesday's series finale with the Rays.

WSJ: Rays fall to 0-5 in Cy Young winner Price's starts

Mattel also said Wednesday that it declared a second-quarter dividend of 36 cents per share.

NPR: Mattel 1Q Profit Rises, Monster High Sales Climb

The White House also announced Wednesday that Bush has asked his father, former President George H.

CNN: Bush tells victims: 'A lot of help coming'

Also out Wednesday is the ISM Manufacturing Index, with the ISM Non-Manufacturing following on Friday.

FORBES: The Week Ahead: Can Stocks Climb the Wall of Worry?

Also on Wednesday, the US said it was having talks with Cuba over the spill.

BBC: Dispersed oil caught in the Gulf of Mexico 18 May

Meantime, crude oil prices were also higher Wednesday, and that was supportive for the metals.

FORBES: Gold Ends Firmer as Choppy, Sideways Trade and Summertime Doldrums Continue

Cook also announced Wednesday that the 25 billionth app has been downloaded from the App Store.

CNN: A new, high-definition iPad from Apple

Chart-related selling was also featured Wednesday as gold and silver market bears remain in near-term technical control.

FORBES: P.M. Kitco Metals Roundup: Gold Sharply Lower on Bearish FOMC Minutes, Surging U.S. Stock Market

Safe-haven buying interest was also featured Wednesday amid the latest developments in the ongoing EU debt crisis.

FORBES: Comex Gold Ends Higher on Bargain Hunting, Safe-Haven Demand; FOMC Results A Non-Event