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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's factory activity contracted in October after briefly expanding a month earlier as businesses remained cautious amid a global outlook clouded by Washington's tariff polic...

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England looks likely to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday, slowing its pace of cuts for the first time since it started to loosen policy last year...

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices climbed in early Asian trade on Monday after OPEC+ decided to hold off production hikes in the first quarter of next year, easing rising fears of a supp...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -The CEO of Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus apologised to Australia's parliament for an emergency number outage that was linked to four deaths but declined to stand down, cit...

By Jasper Ward and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will not attend the Supreme Court's upcoming oral arguments concerning the legality of his global t...

By Lucy Craymer (Reuters) -A bank solvency stress test conducted by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand found the country's five largest banks are well placed to withstand the impact of heightened geopoli...

(Reuters) -An earthquake measuring 6.3 magnitude struck Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquake hit at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles) and its epicente...

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union is considering a brake clause to weaken its 2040 climate target in the future, if it becomes clear countries' forests are not absorbing enough CO2...

(Reuters) -Australia's Westpac Banking Corp on Monday reported a decline in annual profit but topped analyst forecasts, as resilient credit quality and higher non-interest income helped blunt the impa...

(Reuters) -An earthquake measuring 5.8 magnitude struck Negros island, Philippines, on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake hit at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), ac...