Nissan executive released on bail in Japan
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Television footage captured bespectacled Nissan executive Greg Kelly slowly walking out of the detention centre on Christmas Day.
Television footage captured bespectacled Nissan executive Greg Kelly slowly walking out of the detention centre on Christmas Day.
From Donald Trump's bloviating incompetence to Viktor Orban's 'slavery laws', 2018 has seen a staggering number of countries woefully misruled by the worst crop of world leaders in recent memory.
Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling from July, abandoning a decades-old campaign to persuade the commission to allow it to hunt whales commercially.
Donald Trump expressed confidence in the Treasury Secretary, Federal Reserve and US economy on Tuesday, moving to calm financial markets.
Indonesian authorities have warned of "extreme weather and high waves" around the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano, urging people to stay away.
A global economy that until recently was humming has broken down, a sharp contrast to the picture just a year ago when the world was experiencing its best growth since 2010 and seemed poised to do even better.
The bull market that for 10 years has confounded and chastened its detractors is staggering up to death's door. And the haters and admirers are all turning out to pronounce last rites.
China has slashed the number of sectors closed to foreign or non-state investment by more than half, in Beijing's latest move to open up the world's second-largest economy.
US President Donald Trump has suggested a swoon in US sharemarkets is a buying opportunity for investors, even though many analysts blame his policies for the plunge.
Christmas Day brought no presents for the Japanese sharemarket, as the Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged below 20,000 and slipped into a bear...
A local governor and her husband have been killed just days after she had taken office following a bitterly contested election.
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