NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan designed its new negative interest rates to avoid hurting bank profits, and the recent drop in bank stocks is "overdone," the BOJ's deputy governor said on Friday in what amounted to a defense of last month's shock policy decision.
MUZAFFARNAGAR, India (Reuters) - At a campaign rally in a north Indian city, a visibly drunk election worker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist party climbs unsteadily onto the stage after being called to speak.
NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The global chief investment strategist for BlackRock Inc, the world's largest asset manager, on Friday described Japanese stocks as cheap and "arguably the most oversold" in financial markets.
MIAMI (Reuters) - As the princes, sheikhs and diplomats who would rule world football filed into a Miami airport hotel it struck an incongruous tone, a world away from the opulent jamborees of popular myth.
BANGUI (Reuters) - Candidates for weekend elections in Central African Republic wrapped up campaigning on Friday with promises to put an end to years of religious and ethnic bloodshed in the impoverished nation.
While promoting 'Hail, Caesar!' at the Berlin film festival, George Clooney talks about wearing a dress for the Coen Brothers film and what his wife Amal thinks of it. Rough Cut - no reporter narration.
While promoting 'Hail, Caesar!' at the Berlin film festival, George Clooney talks about wearing a dress for the Coen Brothers film and what his wife Amal thinks of it. Rough Cut - no reporter narration.
While promoting 'Hail, Caesar!' at the Berlin film festival, George Clooney talks about wearing a dress for the Coen Brothers film and what his wife Amal thinks of it. Rough Cut - no reporter narration.
The Charleston Library Society’s Speaker Series continues with Geoffrey Cowan, author of the newly published "Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary."
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google will not participate in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's upcoming auction of broadcast airwaves that can help the wireless industry improve coverage, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who never skips a chance to reach out to voters, marked 100 days in office on Friday by fielding Twitter questions on topics from Star Wars to economics to what he had for lunch.
COLUMBIA — A positive campaign, but one that isn’t "a pincushion" for other candidates, is how Ohio Gov. John Kasich described his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A swashbuckling half-century by Chris Morris hauled South Africa back from the brink of defeat as they scraped past England by one wicket on Friday to level the one-day series at 2-2 with one match left.
Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas speculators cut their net short positions for the first week in four as the market started to focus on the upcoming summer when prices are expected to rise, shrugging off the remainder of what has been a warmer-than-normal winter.
Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas speculators cut their net short positions for the first week in four as the market started to focus on the upcoming summer when prices are expected to rise, shrugging off the remainder of what has been a warmer-than-normal winter.
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A swashbuckling half-century by Chris Morris hauled South Africa back from the brink of defeat as they scraped past England by one wicket on Friday to level the one-day series at 2-2 with one match left.
(Reuters) - Apple Inc is on target to introduce its next iPhone and iPad models on March 15, and aims to start selling the devices in the same week, technology blog 9to5Mac reported, citing sources.
The model wore Louis Vuitton to the Garage magazine x Marvel party.
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A Charleston comic book store is adding a new chapter.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday an agreement for a break in hostilities in the Syrian conflict is significant, but there is still more to be done in the peace talks.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's health ministry on Friday reported 4,314 suspected and confirmed cases of microcephaly, a birth defect causing an abnormally small head in newborns, up from 4,074 cases on Feb. 2.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's health ministry on Friday reported 4,314 suspected and confirmed cases of microcephaly, a birth defect causing an abnormally small head in newborns, up from 4,074 cases on Feb. 2.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A surge in sales of pricey new cholesterol treatments is unlikely to materialize this year, contrary to the previous expectations of Express Scripts Holding, an executive from the largest manager of U.S. drug benefits said on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A surge in sales of pricey new cholesterol treatments is unlikely to materialize this year, contrary to the previous expectations of Express Scripts Holding, an executive from the largest manager of U.S. drug benefits said on Friday.
Researchers are developing soft robotic tools for underwater research. The pressure-driven systems will allow marine biologists to examine delicate sea life without harming it. Ben Gruber reports.
