Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of the Swedish furniture conglomerate IKEA and one of the wealthiest men in Sweden, has died at 91.
The anti-immigrant Czech President Milos Zeman won a second five-year term, beating his pro-EU rival Jiri Drahos in a close race.
Turkey asked the United States to remove its military personnel from the northern Manbij region of Syria after announcing a plan to go after Syrian Kurdish fighters in the area.
The US President Donald Trump would negotiate "tougher" and with a "different attitude" in the ongoing Brexit talks between the UK and the EU.
Heavy fighting resumed in the eastern region of Ghouta in Syria after a car bomb attack by jihadist rebels.
Preliminary results of a presidential election in Finland show that the current president Sauli Niinisto is likely to secure his re-election.
Supporters of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny started a day of protest against the current government on Sunday, calling to boycott the presidential election in March.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed upcoming Syria peace congress in Sochi with the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in a phone call.
Stock of the international investment company Kingdom Holding soared on Sunday after the company's owner Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been freed after a corruption probe.
The Indian government plans to raise as much as $15.7B from the sale of state assets in 2018 to cover fiscal deficit and increase spending before elections in 2019.
The Russian police entered the office of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday in an effort to shut down the work of a TV studio inside.
The habitants of Kabul are in despair and fear after a deadly bomb attack killed and wounded more than 250 people in the city centre on Saturday, media reports.
Cyber criminals target cash machines through "jackpotting" by installing a malicious software that forces the machines to spit out cash, a report shows.
China's Sina Weibo suspended several portals which spread wrongly oriented content after receiving a notice from the internet watchdog.
The cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck plans to repay around $425M of the virtual money to owners after being hacked several days ago.
The new extension of sanctions imposed by the US on Russia was unlikely to inflict more damage on the Russian domestic industry, but provided more development opportunities, Alexander Novak stated.
China hoped to cooperate with Japan to get relations between the countries back onto a healthy, normal track sooner, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated.
The US copyright authorities decided to raise over the course of five years the royalty payments Spotify, Apple and other music streaming companies must make to music publishers and songwriters.
Germany wanted to obtain the legal means to watch more closely bids from China's companies to acquire European and German firms in order to protect technologies, the country's Minister stated.
Alwaleed bin Talal a Prince of Saudi Arabia has been released from detention after being held for two months.
The Constitutional Court of Spain has announced that the previous leader of Catalonia can only become the leader of the region if he attends the swearing in session at the regional parliament.
The financial head of Republican National Committee has decided to resign due to rumours of sexual conduct tarnishing his reputation.
The Prime Minister of Greece has failed to get backing from the opposition to create consensus before talks begin between Macedonia and Greece.
Milos Zeman has won a second term as president. This indicates at a continuation of nationalist policies.