Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reported on Friday that he would take two months off after the birth of his second daughter.
The US President Donald Trump fired his chief strategist Steve Bannon, who helped to win the 2016 election, the White House announced on Friday.
South Africa granted diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe's first lady, which allowed her to return to the country and avoid prosecution for assaulting a model at a hotel in Johannesburg.
More than 16M people were affected by seasonal flooding in Nepal, Bangladesh and India, the International Federation of Red Cross reported on Friday.
European travel stocks slumped on Friday, after the terror attack rocked Spain, where at least 14 people were killed and dozens of other injured in the heart of Barcelona.
The mayor of Nice, where died dozens of people after the last year's truck attack, reported he would rise a question of a better safeguard against vehicle attacks among the leaders of the EU countries.
Spanish police announced a nationwide hunt on a man named as Moussa Oukabur Soprano, the driver of a van that crashed into a crowd of tourist, killing 14 and injuring 100 more.
Police reported that shot and arrested a man who killed one person and injured eight others in a knife attack in Turku city.
Iraqi military commanders reported that the large military reinforcement had reached Kirkuk province to help defeat the ISIS militants and retake Tal Afar district.
The US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would boost the US Cyber Command to a full combatant command, in order to deter attacks and tackle adversaries.
Spanish police shot dead five suspects who were carrying bomb belts. The incident happened a few hours after the Islamist militant drove a van into crowds killing 14 people.
On Friday, the Spanish police reported that the three deadly attacks in Catalonia had been prepared for some time by terrorists operating out of the town of Alcanar.
The Swiss road agency imposed a ban on new registrations of the Porsche Cayenne vehicles equipped with the management software of diesel engine.
The police of Brazil announced on Friday two new phases more of their anti-corruption probe into Car Wash alleged graft, money laundering and misappropriation of funds.
The German Economy Ministry's spokesman stated on Friday that the country's government was not involved in negotiations over sale of the struggling airline Air Berlin's assets.
The fourth suspect was detained on Friday over alleged links to the attacks in Catalan city of Barcelona that left 14 dead and 130 wounded.
On Friday, the President Tayyip Erdogan urged Turkish voters living in Germany to vote against the Chancellor Angela Merkel and her allies, calling them enemies of Turkey.
On Friday, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Germany's counterpart Sigmar Gabriel were holding talks by phone over the North Korea's issue.
The Ukraine central bank warned government-owned and private lenders on Friday about a new malware appearance that might be as destructive as June's cyber-attack NotPetya.
The government of Spain has started an effective anti-terrorism operation, which has resulted in already killing five confirmed planners of attacks.
The governor of province of Balkh Atta Mohammad Noor has been accused of detaining and assaulting a political rival.
According to the DOSM data released on Friday, Malaysia's gross domestic product expanded at a 5.8% rate in the Q2, topping economists' expectations for a 5.4% expansion pace.
Another suspect was arrested over links to the alleged Islamic State militant attack on tourists in the centre of Barcelona, enlarging the number of people in detention to three.
Shares of the second-biggest India's IT services company Infosys plunged almost 8% after the firm's CEO Vishal Sikka unexpectedly resigned from his post on Friday.