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.
Venezuela's new chief prosecutor vowed on Thursday to hunt down and imprison leaders of deadly protests, one day before a new hate crimes law was set to be approved.
The former CEO of Uber Tech Travis Kalanick called the senior investor's lawsuit filed against him a "personal and public attack" without merit.
The Australian Senator and the National Party leader Fiona Nash became the sixth politician who turned out to have a dual citizenship, which makes Australians ineligible for the Parliament.
According to the media, the latest week's death toll in the Philippines reached 80 in the country's capital Manila on Friday as the President Rodrigo Duterte's war on crimes and drugs intensified.
China's new home prices continued to grow at a weaker pace in July, fuelling expectations for a further slowdown in following months.
Lenovo said it was more confident that the company could manage to achieve its turnaround target for mobile business in the H2 of fiscal 2018.
Mike Pence, the US Vice President, stated that Washington wants to increase investments and trade with Latin America, pulling back Trump's isolationist agenda.