TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese household spending rose for the first time in five months in year-on-year terms in December and at a much faster-than-expected pace. Consumer spending climbed 2.7% in December from a year earlier, data from the internal affairs ministry showed on Friday, better than the median market forecast for a 0.5% uptick. On [

👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 Elon Musk and the Trump administration have agreed to shut down USAID, the world’s largest single donor to international aid programmes, with thousands of staff being withdrawn as Mr Musk says it is “beyond repair”. The decision follows a wave of government cuts since […]

Ukraine has received the first Mirage fighter jets from France, French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Thursday. The Mirages were handed over along with Ukrainian pilots who had been trained on the jets in France, Lecornu posted on X. The Defence Ministry did not disclose exactly how many aircraft were delivered and how many […]

German Green politician Annalena Baerbock contended that her party remains unified in its asylum policy stance in an interview on Thursday, despite signs of a split over the top Green candidate’s calls for a crackdown on migrants. Robert Habeck, Germany’s vice chancellor and the Greens’ leading candidate for the upcoming February

A man has been arrested in Tokyo on suspicion of killing a pigeon that he reportedly filmed himself abusing. Hiroshi Tsuji, a 49-year-old taxi driver from Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, allegedly captured the bird on the side of a river in the Japanese capital sometime between April and June 2024, local media outlets reported. He is […]