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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's central bank should immediately boost its bond purchase programme from A$5 billion per week to A$6 billion, Westpac chief economist Bill Evans said, in order to cushion ...

By Maha El Dahan BEIRUT (Reuters) - Ibrahim Hoteit lost his younger brother, Tharwat, in the huge explosion that ripped through the port of Beirut last August. He went around hospitals collecting body...

By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -British mortgage lending surged by a record amount in June as home-buyers rushed to take advantage of a tax break before it was scaled back, Bank of England data...

LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer spending on credit and debit cards in Britain rose 2 percentage points in the week to July 22 from the week before, according to data published by the country's statistics ...

By Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) - European stocks hit record highs on Thursday as strong earnings from commodity majors, Airbus and a clutch of other companies set an upbeat tone, with fading concerns abo...

LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca still plans to seek approval for its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States even though the process is taking longer than expected, because it may still be used there in ...

By Martyn Herman TOKYO (Reuters) - When Kye Whyte pressed his front wheel against the starting gate before launching down the ramp at Ariake Urban Park in Tokyo on Thursday it was landmark moment for ...

MADRID (Reuters) - The family office of Spanish billionaire Amancio Ortega, founder and main shareholder of fashion group Inditex, posted net profit of 666 million euros in 2020, down 62.5% from 1.778...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported 799 coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday, an all-time high it has reached three times in the last month amid a surge in cases blamed on the infectious Delta varian...

By Philip O'Connor ENOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - The sailors at the Tokyo Games might be surrounded by water, but it's the wrong kind - and the risk of dehydration during an intense period of racing is ...