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By Cate Cadell BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 to 4.5 million births of the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a th...

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar began the week under gentle pressure, after a second consecutive month of softer-than-expected U.S. jobs data reversed its recent attempts at a r...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Half of the Japanese public thinks the Olympics will take place this summer, a survey by Yomiuri daily newspaper showed on Monday, less than two months before the Games' scheduled op...

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares firmed on Monday while the dollar wavered after the anxiously awaited May U.S. payrolls report showed the recovery on track but not so hot that it might b...

LIMA (Reuters) - Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori is ahead of socialist rival Pedro Castillo in Peru's presidential election run-off, according to an Ipsos exit poll released on Sunday evening. A...

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's financial crime fighting agency widened a probe into suspected compliance breaches by casino operator Crown Resorts to include its Perth property, while ri...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria state on Monday reported its biggest rise in new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in a week as authorities rushed to track the source of the highly infectious De...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Wesley scored a first-half double as Palmeiras condemned newly promoted Chapecoense to their second successive defeat in Brazil's Serie A on Sunday. Wesley scored in the seventh ...

LONDON (Reuters) - One hundred former presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers have urged the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations to pay for global coronavirus vaccinations to help stop the viru...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's lowest-paid workers, already hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, will be most at risk from expected rises in unemployment and job insecurity later this year, researchers...