On Friday, a gunman attacked the Federal Security Bureau in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, killing two people, an employee and a visitor of the FSB office.
On Friday, the apparel retailer Bebe Stores announced it was eager to shut down all its shops until June 2017 as well as liquidate the company's fixtures and merchandise within the stores.
The Japanese tech company Sony lifted its annual operating profit expectations to $2.6B due to decrease of the amortisation costs for its monetary providers segment.
Turkish main opposition party CHP filed a complaint against the High Electoral Board decision to count unstamped ballots in the referendum on the President Tayyip Erdogan broad new powers.
The US Vice President Mike Pence is eager to visit Australia for talks with the country's PM Malcolm Turnbull this Saturday to discuss regional security and trade issues.
The US President Donald Trump said the latest Paris terrorist attack would have a big impact on France's Presidential election that would take place this Sunday.
On Friday, French authorities stated that the country's security forces were completely mobilised and ready for the upcoming Presidential election after the Paris attack claimed by the Islamic State.
IHS Markit reported on Friday its April Flash Manufacturing and Services PMIs for the Euro zone came in at 56.2 and 56.8 points, respectively, suggesting the economy started the Q2 with solid growth.
EU diplomats said that the European Union did not have any plan if two anti-EU French candidates made it to the final round of the presidential election.
The Pakistani opposition staged out protests in the Parliament session this Friday, urging the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to leave his office for the time an investigation on his finances lasts.
On Friday, the UK government stated it was eager to prolong the Northern Ireland deadline on negotiations to June 29 as an agreement failed to hold before the general election.
The Parliament of Thailand at a confidential session on Friday came to an agreement to grant control of the Thai royal agencies to the country's new King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
On Friday, the Southeast Asian nation's government reported that Vietnam's PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc received an invitation by the President Donald Trump to visit the US as two countries aims to strengthen ties.
On Friday, Britain is going to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's 91st birthday with the artillery gun salutes at the London Tower and in City's Hyde Park as one of the major occasions in the country.
On Friday, the United States and Indonesia agreed to find a solution on cutting trade and investment barriers to the US companies that operate in Indonesia.
London's transport authority is ready to increase operator license fees for the Taxi app Uber following its newly proposed regulations.
Stocks of Asian steelmakers jumped on Friday despite the US President Donald Trump's probe against Asian cheap steel exporters into the US market.
Elon Musk, the CEO and founder of Tesla, reported that his company Neuralink was working on connecting the human brain with artificial intelligence with the help of micron-sized devices.
The Taiwan Economics Minister said that the trade surplus with the US was smaller than reported by Washington, expressing hopes that the country will be excluded from the currency manipulator list.
On Friday, the US Vice President said that the latest attack in Paris served as a reminder that terrorism can strike anywhere and anytime, adding the US would continue fighting terrorism.
A police officer was killed and two more injured on the Champs Elysees in Paris on Thursday night in an attack claimed by the Islamic State.
Donald Trump signed a memorandum to launch a trade probe targeting China and other cheap steel exporters into the US, that raised the possibility of new trade tariffs.
Haruhiko Kuroda, the Bank of Japan Governor, warned policymakers against unwinding the globalization and free trade, that supported prosperity in many countries' economies.
Preliminary survey revealed on Friday that manufacturing activity in Japan increased at a faster pace this month as export orders jumped, in a sign of strong global demand.