Wells Fargo & Co. announced on Friday that it would pay the US government $108M in order to settle down arising claims over loan issuance to military veterans.
At least nine people are still missing after water leaked into an underground station of the Mir diamond mine with more than 100 workers inside.
The US economy added 290K net new jobs in July, according to data that was released on Friday by the Labor Department.
Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty on Friday in US District Court in Detroit in a diesel emissions cheating scandal with nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles.
Singapore reported on Friday it would expel a China-born professor and his family from the city-state for collaborating with foreign secret agents.
Statistics Canada reported on Friday that the unemployment rate in Canada fell to 6.3% in July, missing expectations for an unchanged reading of 6.5%.
Facebook launched a new tool in Kenya that would help its users spot and limit the spread of fake news stories on its platform a few days before a hotly-contested general election.
On Friday, the Parliament of Ethiopia voted to lift the imposed last October emergency rule as the country seeks to restore stability after months of protests that left hundreds of people dead.
Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel called the US sanctions against Russia more than problematic as the aggressive move was clearly pursuing economic interests of the United States that the EU found unacceptable.
Volkswagen is intending to offer its five major brands' owners of older diesel cars some incentives to adopt the cleaner cars models, following a deal to tackle pollution.
The former head of the Chinese Communist Party Wang Min was jailed for life on Friday after he was found guilty of accepting more than $22M in bribes.
An ex-aid of the Israeli Prime Minister is set to testify in a case, in which the prime minister will be questioned as a suspect.
The European Union has announced that on Friday it will decide on adding more companies and names to the Russian sanction blacklist.
On Friday, the Emergencies Ministry reported that about 150 miners had been evacuated from the Siberian underground diamond mine Alrosa in Russia as water broke into.
A 79-storey residential high-rise in Qatar's Dubai was urgently evacuated on Friday as the skyscraper got engulfed with a huge fire due to some unknown reason.
On Friday, the Royal Bank of Scotland stated it was seeking to set up its European Union trading base in the Netherlands' capital of Amsterdam after Britain's withdrawal from the bloc.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Uber Technologies consciously bought over 1K of the recalled Honda's Vezel sport-utility cars that were at risk of catching fire and rented out the faulty vehicles to its drivers.
North Korea condemned White House's decision to bar the US passport holders from travelling to the North, while the state media called it a "sordid" try to limit tourist movement.
On Friday, the Danish Ritzau news outlet reported that the Denmark's Capital of Region responsible for Copenhagen hospitals was hit by a major IT breakdown, but gave no reason for the issue.
Toyota is eager take a 5% stake in Mazda Motor to establish a US auto plant and develop key electric vehicle technologies as part of a collaboration deal that should be announced on Friday, Nikkei reported.
Swedish Volvo Cars agreed to provide the engine technology for its parent Geely Holding Group's vehicles, deepening relations between the automakers as they had already shared technology through Lynk & Co brand.
According to the sources familiar with the matter, the newly-appointed Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has finished to form the government.
A Reuters poll of economists showed that US non-farm payrolls would presumably surge 183K for the month of July after rising 222K in the preceding month.
In a statement released on Thursday evening, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said India was building up its armed personnel along the border between the two countries.