TOKYO, Jan 27 — Core consumer prices in Japan's capital, a leading indicator of nationwide trends, rose 4.3 per cent in January from a year earlier, marking the fastest annual gain in nearly 42 years and keeping the central bank under pressure to phase out economic stimulus.

TOKYO, Jan 27 — Toyota's chief executive will step down as head of the company his grandfather founded, the automaker said on Thursday, handing over to the leader of its Lexus luxury brand as the Japanese giant struggles to meet the shift to electric vehicles.

RIYADH, Jan 26 — Saudi Arabia strongly condemns the actions of an extremist in the Netherlands who tore up a copy of the Holy Quran near the Dutch parliament, in The Hague and stepped on it.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France on Wednesday ruled that it will hear the cases against Russia over alleged human rights violations in eastern regions of Ukraine, and the downing of flight MH17.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 26 — Meta announced on Wednesday that the company would restore former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, ending a two-year suspension, Xinhua reported.

BERLIN, Jan 26 — Manchester United put one foot into the league Cup final with an assured 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest in the first leg of their semi-final on Wednesday, reported German Press Agency (dpa).

LONDON, Jan 25 —- Microsoft is investigating after its services including messaging system Teams and email platform Outlook went down for users around the world.

KUALA LUMPUR, 25 Jan — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will deliver its admissibility decision on Wednesday over the violations by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, and the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines MH 17.

LOS ANGELES, Jan 25 — Dimension-hopping adventure "Everything Everywhere All at Once" topped the list of movies nominated on Tuesday for this year's Oscars as Hollywood's film academy chose several crowd-pleasing hits to compete for the best picture prize.

TOKYO, Jan 25 — Heavy snow blanketed wide swathes of Japan on Wednesday, snarling traffic, forcing hundreds of flight cancellations and disrupting train travel, leaving at least one person dead.

SINGAPORE, Jan 25 — Singapore's key consumer price gauge rose 5.1 per cent in December, slightly higher than forecast, official data showed on Wednesday.

BANGKOK, Jan 25 — Thailand received 11.15 million foreign visitors in 2022, a surge from just about 428,000 the previous year when broad pandemic-related travel curbs were in place, tourism ministry data showed on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES, Jan 25 — A24's Asian-led absurdist comedy-drama film Everything Everywhere All at Once led nominees for the 95th Academy Awards, or the Oscars, with 11 nominations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday.

WELLINGTON, Jan 25 — Chris Hipkins was sworn in as New Zealand Prime Minister on Wednesday, with his predecessor Jacinda Ardern officially tendering her resignation.

ANKARA, Jan 24 — Outgoing New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday made her final public appearance before leaving office.

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 — President Joe Biden said Congress must pass new legislation introduced earlier in the day to ban assault weapons in light of the recent spate of shootings including in Monterey Park, California reported Sputnik.

NEW YORK, Jan 24 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday called on authorities to carry out stronger checks after life-threatening cough syrups for children appeared in at least seven countries.

GENEVA, Jan 23 — More than 5 billion of the world's eight billion people are exposed to industrially generated and harmful trans-fats in their food, the World Health Organisation reported on Monday.

AMMAN, Jan 23 — The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Isesco) on Sunday strongly condemned as "barbaric behaviour" the act burning of a copy of the Holy Quran by an extremist in Sweden's Stockholm reported Petra.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA, Jan 23 — Condemnations continued to pour in from across the Arab and Islamic worlds over the burning of a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, by a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.