STOCKHOLM | Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:33am IST STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Global military spending dropped in 2012 for the first time in more than a decade thanks to deep cuts in the United States and Europe which made [...]

SINGAPORE | Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:12am IST SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Gold reversed early gains to drop more than 1 percent on Monday after U.S. futures fell on fears about central bank sales and heavy outflows from [...]

By Mark Lamport-Stokes AUGUSTA, Georgia | Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:21am IST AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Adam Scott ended decades of Australian agony when he became the first player from his country to win the Masters [...]

By Tim Hepher PARIS | Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:36am IST PARIS (Reuters) – The pilot whose Indonesian jet slumped into the sea while trying to land in Bali has described how he felt it “dragged” down by [...]

By Daniel Wallis and Todd Benson CARACAS | Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:09am IST CARACAS (Reuters) – Ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro narrowly won Venezuela’s presidential election on Sunday, the electoral [...]

By Alan Baldwin SHANGHAI | Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:18pm IST SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Fernando Alonso roared to a dominant victory in a highly strategic Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday to give Ferrari their first win of [...]

By Arshad Mohammed and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO | Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:05pm IST TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday stressed the United States is willing to engage with North Korea as [...]

By Mark Lamport-Stokes AUGUSTA, Georgia | Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:48am IST AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Tiger Woods ended a turbulent Saturday, both on and off the golf course, close enough to the leaders at the [...]

By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI | Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:42am IST NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Finance Minister P. Chidambaram will seek to drum up foreign investment from the United States and Canada [...]

By Matthew Green HYDERABAD, Pakistan | Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:54am IST HYDERABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) – When Veero Kolhi made the asset declaration required of candidates for Pakistan’s May elections, she [...]

By Maria Golovnina LONDON | Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:32am IST LONDON (Reuters) – Several hundred people turned up for a “party” in central London on Saturday to celebrate the death of former British Prime [...]

By Julian Linden AUGUSTA, Georgia | Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:37am IST AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – American Brandt Snedeker and Angel Cabrera of Argentina survived a drama-packed day at the Masters on Saturday to [...]

By Alan Baldwin SHANGHAI | Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:12pm IST SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton’s first pole position for Mercedes at the Chinese Grand Prix on Saturday allowed the 2008 Formula One world champion [...]

By Ju-min Park and Elaine Lies SEOUL | Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:35pm IST SEOUL (Reuters) – Hips swinging, South Korean rapper Psy launched the dance and video of his new song “Gentleman” at a packed Seoul [...]

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY | Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:20pm IST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, in his first major decision, on Saturday set up an advisory board of cardinals from around the world to help [...]

BEIJING | Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:19pm IST BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday that tensions on the Korean peninsula were one of the challenging issues [...]

By Alan Baldwin SHANGHAI | Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:23pm IST SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton swept to his first pole position for Mercedes at the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday, with Kimi Raikkonen [...]

VATICAN CITY | Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:02pm IST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis has set up a committee of eight cardinals from around the world to advise him on how to reform the Vatican’s central administration, [...]

By Yasmine Saleh and Maggie Fick CAIRO | Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:15pm IST CAIRO (Reuters) – The retrial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak collapsed on Saturday when the presiding judge withdrew from the [...]

By Alan Baldwin SHANGHAI | Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:57am IST SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Protests in Bahrain ahead of next week’s Formula One Grand Prix are giving Force India no sleepless nights despite the scare [...]

COLOMBO | Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:23am IST COLOMBO (Reuters) – Three armed men set fire to the printing machine of a Tamil-language newspaper that is critical of the Sri Lankan government, forcing the paper to [...]

BEIJING | Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:59am IST BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese capital reported on Saturday its first case of a new strain of bird flu, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time it has been found [...]

SHANGHAI | Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:41am IST SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Fernando Alonso gave team mate Felipe Massa a quick reminder of his place in the pecking order as the Ferrari drivers went top of the timesheets [...]

By Jeff Mason and Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON | Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:51am IST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama paid an effective federal tax rate of 18.4 percent in 2012 and saw income from his best-selling [...]

BEIJING | Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:21am IST BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese capital Beijing reported on Saturday its first case of a new strain of bird flu, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time it has been found [...]

WASHINGTON | Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:52am IST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama paid an effective federal tax rate of 18.4 percent in 2012 and saw income from his best-selling books drop as he ran for [...]

By John O’Donnell and Jan Strupczewski DUBLIN | Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:36am IST DUBLIN (Reuters) – The European Union’s six biggest countries agreed on Friday to cooperate in the fight against tax havens, [...]

MUMBAI | Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:36am IST MUMBAI (Reuters) – One of Bollywood’s most famous villains, Pran, will receive the highest award in Indian cinema to honour the actor whose career has spanned about [...]

LONDON | Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:56pm IST LONDON (Reuters) – Sex workers in London are being forced to slash prices they charge clients because of the impact of the recession on the British economy and an influx [...]

By Yoko Kubota TOKYO | Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:56pm IST TOKYO (Reuters) – More than 100 people lined up at midnight at a Tokyo bookstore, eager to get their hands on the latest Haruki Murakami novel that went on [...]