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By Ayai Tomisawa TOKYO (Reuters) – The Nikkei share average surged to a fresh 5-1/2 year high on Monday, buoyed by further weakness in the yen and optimism over the growth outlook after the Japanese government raised its assessment of … Continue reading →

By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained economic growth that has eluded it for the last two decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to make Japan … Continue reading →

LYON, France (Reuters) – A British father living in France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday. Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday … Continue reading →

LYON, France (Reuters) – A British father living in France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday. Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday … Continue reading →

LYON, France (Reuters) – A British father living in France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday. Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday … Continue reading →

This coming weekend is a big one for Saturday Night Live. It marks the end of Bill Hader’s tenure on the show and Ben Affleck’s fifth time hosting. But perhaps the most significant reason to tune in is the fact that Kanye … Continue reading →

Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company. The social network‘s market value was more than $100 billion. Now, … Continue reading →

By Clara Ferreira-Marques LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s parliament will this week consider whether to probe the transparency of oil and mining firms listed in London, an issue highlighted by corruption probes at emerging market miners which MPs fear have dented … Continue reading →

In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And … Article source: Article Source

(Adds detail, background, writes through) By Maggie Fick CAIRO, May 17 (Reuters) – Egyptian construction and fertiliser group OCI said its core earnings were flat in the first quarter, citing lower construction margins and reduced output at its Egyptian plants … Continue reading →