There's been a series of bomb attacks also in cities across Iraq and they have killed at least 37 people and wounded almost 300. Several cities were hit including the capital Baghdad, Kirkuk in the north and Nasiriyah in the south.

 

Venezuela's defeated presidential candidate is demanding a recount of votes. Henrique Capriles claims there were several irregularities during the election and the result in his view is illegitimate. Socialist Nicolas Maduro narrowly won the election to replace Hugo Chavez who died of cancer in March.

 

Now those explosions in Boston have made a bad day on Wall Street even worse, the Dow Jones was down almost 2%. That's its biggest one day fall since November. The gold price has been tumbling from about the last 48 hours and it continued to fall. The metal has suffered its worst two-day loss in 30 years, it was down more than 9% to $1395 an ounce. Weaker than expected growth in China's economy has sparked a wider fall in commodity prices. Oil prices hit four-month lowers and the price of copper and aluminum were also sharply lower. And of course that also affected the currencies including Australia's Au-dollar. Market's been unsteadily rattled by the bombings in Boston.