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The Ontario government cut its growth, revenue and reserve targets on Wednesday, but said it was still on track to balance the budget in six years, without lowering total program spending or raising taxes.

Occupy Tokyo is one of East Asia's most significant outgrowths of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has swept the world over the past two months, but most media sources have ignored it. Growing out of outrage over the Japanese government's handling of severe damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant in March, it has become a major force in the East Asian nation.

A magnitude-5.9 earthquake has hit Japan in a region near the Fukushima nuclear plant.

French holiday company Club Med believes its shift upmarket will help it through the tough economic times ahead and is betting on expansion in the Americas and China to drive growth.

The U.S. economy grew at a slightly slower pace than previously estimated in the third quarter, but weak inventory accumulation amid sturdy consumer spending strengthened views output would pick up in the current quarter.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on Monday that his view on Japanese industry has not changed following the March earthquake and that he was looking for opportunities in the country.

Octogenarian billionaire investor Warren Buffett arrived on his first visit to Japan on Monday, fanning speculation about his possible investments in the country's battered stock market.

Al Weiwei, Chinese contemporary artist and leading political activist, has been facing new investigations for allegedly spreading online pictures of nudity.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 jolted the Ibaragi Prefecture near Tokyo on Sunday, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury.

Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is moving on to her next chapter, going out of the TV studio to meet and chat with celebrities on their own turf.

Honda Motor Co's Canadian unit will start manufacturing its CR-V compact sport-utility vehicle in Canada early next year, Japan's No. 3 automaker said on Thursday.

In what appears to be a rapidly developing trend, Chinese visitors to the United States are being noticed more for the flash of their newly-bought designer bags than that of their Nikons. Tiffany & Co. (NYSE:TIF), Coach, Inc. (NYSE:COH) and Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL) are just a few of the companies in the luxury retail sector that have recently noted how higher revenue at their North American operations has largely been boosted by Chinese shoppers on vacation.

The newlywed royal couple of the “Himalayan Kingdom” made their visit truly official as the duo dressed in Bhutanese natural dress.

Upscale apparel and accessories retailers have been consistently outperforming the rest of the retail market, as they've been able to simultaneously roll back discounts and increase sales. A spike in sales for the most expensive of offerings, and at branded outlets, belies a more sinister reason for the surge: growing income inequality.

The decibel level in the small, bunker-like rehearsal room is ear-shattering and every loose item in the space is shaking as if an earthquake struck.

He always seems to know where to look, Roger Ebert wrote of what Werner Herzog does in Into the Abyss. The film is the German director's evenhanded, understated and powerful examination of a senseless triple murder in Texas, which sent one man to death row and another to life in prison.

The current economic rebound could be short-lived, given the continued strength of the yen currency, the global economic slowdown and the floods in Thailand.

The world's leading economies are all heading for a period of slower growth, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Monday, highlighting signs of weakening economic activities across the board.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia, in the Molucca Sea around at 1:05 p.m. local time. It was centered 42 miles southwest of the town of Labuha on the island of Pulau Bacan.

Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 flat, Dow Jones futures up 0.2 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.2 percent at 0945 GMT.

The Japanese economy came back to life the first time in four straight quarters, posting a 1.5 percent growth in the July-September quarter. According to data released by the Cabinet Office, the annualized growth of the economy was an impressive 6 percent.