The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan spent record 2.84 tril. yen in intervention to stop yen plungeTOKYO - Japan's currency intervention last week cost 2.84 trillion yen ($19 billion), the largest-ever amount spent to stem the yen's sharp slide against the U.S. dollar, Finance Ministry data showed Friday.The yen-buying, dollar-selling operation, Japan's first since 1998, was carried out on Sept. 22, shortly after the Japanese currency plunged past the psychologically important 145 mark amid prospects that the monetary policies of Japan an…READ FULL ARTICLE