Global gold mine production probably peaked last year and could start sliding by 2004 unless bullion prices rally, prompting miners to pump money into new projects, analysts said on Tuesday.
Japan plans to pledge about -million in emergency aid to countries in southern Africa in the wake of the region’s worsening food crisis,
Japan’s space agency was trying to steer a new satellite into its planned orbit on Saturday, after two previous attempts to do so failed when the main thrusters stalled, an agency official said.