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Asian stock markets mostly advanced Monday with Japanese shares climbing more than 2 percent after the weekend’s Group of 20 finance chiefs' meeting has refrained from criticizing Tokyo’s monetary policies that have weakened the yen.

A two-day G-20 meeting in Moscow ended on Saturday with members promising to refrain from competitive currency devaluation.

North Korea has informed its most significant ally, China, that it plans up to two more tests this year. Beijing may find this the last straw.

Half of adult men and a third of adult women in Taiwan are overweight or obese.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open Friday ahead of the Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report.

Japan’s industrial output rose 2.4 percent in December, but less than the initial estimate of 2.5 percent.

Forget about your mother threatening to withhold dessert if you don’t finish your meal. A Japanese restaurant is allegedly doling out another punishment: fines for customers who don’t clean off their plates.

A bigger-than-expected GDP contraction in Q4 brought a dismal end to a very difficult year for the euro zone.

Asian markets shouldn’t be perceived as high risk, but stock valuations are definitely out of sync with earnings growth, an expert warned.

Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to sell its Mexican beer brands. Meanwhile, there's trouble brewing in Australia.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open Wednesday ahead of the weekly report on jobless claims from the Department of Labor.

In Japan, Valentine's Day is slightly different than in the West: it's the women who give gifts, and it's mostly chocolates.

Japan’s GDP fell 0.1% in the the fourth quarter. It had been expected to grow by 0.1%. Will its economy ever recover?

China is probably North Korea's only ally, but people on the Chinese Internet are wondering if that support will end soon.

The Republican argument is that a mandatory wage increase will hurt the economy but the record tells a different story.

India has already taken similar steps to erase the influence of British colonialism.

Read the full text transcript of President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address here.

Mobile social gaming giant GREE cut its full-year financial outlook this week, citing rising costs and slower-than-expected sales from its ambitious overseas expansion.

Beggar-thy-neighbor currency devaluations helped crash the global economy in the 1930s. Are we about to repeat?

North Korea's only significant ally, China, has protested the North's most recent nuclear development testing and called for continued dialogue.

Today marks a record in U.S. aviation history -- it has been four years since the last fatal crash of a commercial airliner.