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Dresses with strong silhouettes, sparkles on both women and men and a splash of Barbie-inspired pink dominated the Oscars red carpet on Sunday.

Robert Downey Jr. won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in "Oppenheimer," where he played a villainous bureaucrat who seeks to destroy the acclaimed physicist.

(RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market has finished higher in five straight sessions, advancing more than 840 points or 4.3 percent in that span. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 19,785-point plateau although investors are likely to lock in gains on Monday.

The leader of Portugal's centre-left Socialist Party (PS), Pedro Nuno Santos, conceded defeat in Sunday's closely contested parliamentary election and congratulated the centre-right Democratic Alliance on its victory despite a very tight margin.

Asian share markets followed Wall Street lower on Monday while the dollar looked vulnerable ahead of a reading on U.S. inflation that could hasten, or delay, the start of global rate cuts.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei average falls 2.01% to 38,892.51 on Monday, while the broader Topix shed 1.65% to 2,681.91.

Japan's economy expanded at an annualised clip of 0.4% in October-December from the previous quarter, better than the initial estimate for a 0.4% contraction, government data showed on Monday.

(RTTNews) - The Singapore stock market has moved higher in two of three trading days since the end of the three-day losing streak in which it had slipped almost 35 points or 1.1 percent. The Straits Times Index now sits just beneath the 3,150-point plateau although it figures to

King Charles on Monday hailed the work of the Commonwealth as it celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, although the British monarch will be absent from annual celebrations for the organisation he leads as he recuperates from cancer treatment.

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(RTTNews) - The South Korea stock market has moved higher in back-to-back sessions, collecting almost 40 points or 1.6 percent along the way. The KOSPI now rests just above the 2,680-point plateau although it may run out of steam on Monday.

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China's consumer prices rose for the first time in six months due to spending linked to the Lunar New Year, offering some reprieve for the world's second-biggest economy grappling with weak consumer sentiment, while factory-gate prices fell again.

A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Signs of fatigue on Wall Street and mixed Chinese inflation data will set the tone for Asian markets on Monday, with growing expectations of a landmark policy change later this month from the Bank of Japan also likely to drive the Nikkei and yen.

Ukraine on Sunday rebuffed Pope Francis's call to negotiate an end to the war with Russia, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying the pontiff was engaging in "virtual mediation" and his foreign minister saying Kyiv would never capitulate.

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Revised data for Japan's fourth-quarter gross domestic product will likely show that the economy avoided a technical recession thanks to companies' stronger-than-expected spending on plants and equipment, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.

Resource-scarce Japan is shoring up long-term supplies of liquefied natural gas from close allies Australia and the United States as key contracts from providers including Russia are set to expire by the early 2030s.