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OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada on Wednesday left its key overnight interest rate unchanged at 0.25%, as expected, and said it would maintain its current policy of quantitative easing. The centr...

WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The proportion of Americans detained in local jails - where people are locked up awaiting trial or serving sentences for minor crimes - fell to a three-decade low last year as of...

By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the world's biggest investors are slashing exposure to government bonds on expectations that the debt sell-off is just getting started, and without too s...

Britney Spears has gained two more supporters for her conservatorship case -- Reps. Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz of Ohio and Florida, respectively -- and they want her to travel to Washington, D.C. to sp...

After releasing his festive "HOLIDAY" single, Lil Nas X is gearing up for his next era in music -- starting with his long-awaited single "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)". The rapper, born Montero Lama...

By Waruna Karunatilake and Alasdair Pal COLOMBO (Reuters) - China has approved a 10 billion yuan ($1.54 billion) currency swap with Sri Lanka, a government spokesman in Colombo said on Wednesday, givi...

OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian Parliament said on Wednesday it had sustained a fresh cyber attack, six months after a previous one was publicised. "We know that data has been extracted but we do not y...

By Aaron Ross (Reuters) - Hospitals have run out of morgue space and are piling bodies into refrigerated shipping containers. Radio and television stations are flooded with calls trying to locate the ...

(Reuters) - ConocoPhillips said on Wednesday it has resumed its share buyback program and pledged to keep spending flat even as oil prices climbed, the latest U.S. energy firm to embrace investor retu...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday that proposed changes to Hong Kong's electoral system would be another attack on the freedoms of its former colony, and that the government had raised its ...