Brazil's police investigated unsanitary conditions and endemic corruption in the local meatpacking industry that are described on 8,000 pages of evidence, including systematic fraud.
House of Representatives' Republican leaders pulled legislation to reconsider the US health care system due to lack of votes despite the White House's hopeless lobbying and Congress allies.
The Fed President Williams stated that the Fed did not try to raise inflation to compensate for the previous weak price increase, but aimed to ensure credibility of the 2% target.
An unidentified suicide bomber killed himself near Bangladesh international airport at police checkpoint, the second such incident this week.
The US paint maker PPG team of executives left the Netherlands without meeting Akzo Nobel's counterparts. PPG expected to gain support for the offered takeover.
Tanzanian President warned local journalists of limits to a press freedom. These comments would support opposition concern that the government narrows a space for public criticism.
According to Indian police, local authorities launched an investigation into the Hindu nationalist lawmaker after he admitted hitting an Air India official over business class seat.
Russia's warplanes took part in the air strikes against the rebels to repulse a major attack on the Syria's government-held regions near Hama.
A man killed four people by stabbing them to death in a rural area of Tamel, Portugal. The man was surrounded by police and confessed the crime.
The US President Trump supported Charter Communications Inc's decision to invest $25B in the US and the disclosed plan to create 20,000 working places over four years.
The Fed stated that forecast on the US GDP was raised in the first quarter to almost 3% amid stronger than expected data on durable goods orders and new home sales in February.
On Friday, the SAS flight that carried 119 passengers made a force landing in Munich after one of the engines malfunctioned, 10 minutes into a flight.
TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline granted the official permit by the US, previously rejected by the former President Barack Obama, seeking to create thousands of workplaces and help to boost oil industry.
France's far-right presidential nominee Marine Le Pen is eager to view the French gothic art exhibition during her visit to Moscow that will take place in the Kremlin on Friday.
12 Syrians are reported to be dead, including five children, as a plastic boat sank in the waters close to the Turkish Kusadasi town on Friday.
Twitter is thinking over launch of its Tweetdeck platform's premium version that will require fee-paying as the social media failed to lure enough in advertising earnings to turn its profit.
The quantity of the charging points for electric vehicles in Germany surged 27% in 2016 as Germany tried to increase the technology in Europe.
According to Chad's security and military sources, a French national, whose identity was not determined, was kidnapped and taken into Sudan; however, no group had assumed responsibility for the abduction yet.
An unidentified metallic item exploded at a private property's garden in the Cairo suburb, leaving one dead and three others family members injured as a man handled the suspicious object, causing its blast.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump is eager to approve the Keystone XL pipeline during the meeting with the TransCanada Corporation CEO at the White House.
The German environmental lobby Deutsche Umwelthilfe brought a lawsuit against the motor authority KBA over the pollution control software used in the VW vehicles and approved by KBA that was set up illegally.
The Russian military forces lost six of its soldiers in an attack in Chechnya, but were able to defeat the assailant group, killing six militants, when the insurgents attacked the military base in the early morning on Friday.
On Friday, the Turkish Minister of Transportation Ahmet Arslan stated that Turkey was negotiating with the aviation officials over easing down the electronics ban restrictions on the US and the UK-bound flights.
The British police arrested two more suspects in the UK Parliament attack organisation, reaching the total number of those in custody to nine people.