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By Hideyuki Sano and Tom Westbrook TOKYO/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - While the race for ruling party leader remains wide open, the Japanese stock market has emerged as a clear winner of Prime Minister Yoshi...

LONDON (Reuters) - British consumer spending jumped last month thanks to a post-lockdown splurge on holidays at home and entertainment, payment card company Barclaycard said on Tuesday. Spending rose ...

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to ease taxes on banks and make it easier to hire staff from abroad, its financial and professional services lobby said in a blueprint to help London unse...

(Reuters) - An Australian court fined local units of Allianz SE for selling travel insurance to ineligible customers and not properly disclosing how it calculated premiums on Expedia websites, the cou...

By Dominique Patton and Nayara Figueiredo BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese beef importers said on Monday the suspension of exports by top supplier Brazil due to two cases of mad cow disease has had no imme...

RAMSGATE, England (Reuters) - The colony of seals in Britain's Thames Estuary has dipped slightly, though the thriving population of the predators is testament to just how far the river has recovered ...

By Tim Reid (Reuters) - Michael K. Williams, who played the character Omar Little in the TV series "The Wire," was found dead in his New York apartment on Monday, the New York Police Department said. ...

(Reuters) - A statue of Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee that towers six stories over Richmond, Virginia, and was a centerpiece of protests over racial injustice, is coming down this week. ...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador has bought its first 200 bitcoins, President Nayib Bukele said on Monday, one day before the country formally adopts the cryptocurrency as legal tender. "Our broke...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador will on Tuesday become the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as legal tender, a move President Nayib Bukele says will save Salvadorans living abroad ...