Toyako, Japan - The European Union urged Group of Eight (G8) leaders meeting in Japan on Monday to approve "meaningful," "ambitious" and "binding" long-term goals to combat climate change.

Toyako, Japan - The European Union is to provide an extra 1 billion euros (1.57 billion dollars) in aid to help farmers in poor countries as part of its response to the global food crisis, Europea

Tokyo - As the leaders of the world's largest economies gathered in the northern island of Hokkaido Monday for the Group of Eight (G8) summit, an estimated 150 people set out on a protest rally fr

Tokyo - Japan's foreign reserves exceeded 1 trillion dollars in June on rises in the appraisal value of the nation's euro-denominated assets and gold holdings, the Finance Ministry said Monday.

Tokyo - Tokyo stocks opened slightly lower Monday with little trading incentives.

The Nikkei 225 Stock Average edged down 8.43 points, or 0.06 per cent, to 13,229.46.

Toyako  -Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations will agree during their summit in Hokkaido to stockpile grains to better cope with future food crises, sources said.