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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's business-to-business services prices rose 1.6% in January from a year earlier, much slower than a 9.5% jump in wholesale goods prices, a sign the recent pick-up in inflation ...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's official newspaper said on Wednesday that relying on external aid to cope with food shortages would be equal to taking "poisoned candy", urging economic...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan is looking for breakthroughs in agriculture and information technology during the first ministerial level meeting of a U.S.-Pakistani trade and investm...

By Jessica DiNapoli BOCA RATON, Fla (Reuters) - McCormick & Company Inc is looking to hike prices on its spices and hot sauces at retailers like Walmart Inc and Kroger Co but is getting "pushback" on ...

By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) -A senior Chinese diplomat told his Japanese counterpart that Beijing was very troubled by Tokyo's military build up and criticised it for adopting a "Cold War menta...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia has urged U.N. states to vote against an "unbalanced and anti-Russian" move at the General Assembly by Ukraine and others to mark one year since M...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's central bank raised interest rates by 50 basis points to a more than 14-year high of 4.75% on Wednesday, and said it expects to keep tightening further to ensure i...

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar and sterling were buoyant on Wednesday, after a surprise rebound in business activity in the United States and the UK raised the likelihood that their respe...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The second of two reputed gang members jailed in the execution-style killings of six people in a central California farming town last month, including an infant...

By Isla Binnie and Simon Jessop NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major U.S. pension fund CalPERS is seeking a meeting with rail operator Norfolk Southern at which it plans to ask about the derailment of a train l...