On Monday, France's healthcare firm Sanofi announced it had agreed to acquire the US peer Bioverative in a deal worth $11.6B, expecting to boost the company's earnings.
On Monday, Facebook revealed its intention to open three digital training hubs in Europe to train 1M people in the following two years.
The World Economic Forum chairman Klaus Schwab said he still expected to see the US President Donald Trump attending the annual event this week.
The chief of Singapore's central bank said that the city-state must face the problem of how to effectively use taxes to back those far less well off, pointing out that the population is ageing fast.
The US government will remain shut down for the third straight day on Monday due to the failure of the Senate negotiators to strike a deal on Sunday.
China was confident that the country's economic growth would remain steady this year, a spokesman for the state planner stated after the stronger-than-expected Q4 GDP report.
Toshiba was considering the company's prised memory chip unit IPO if an $18B sale agreed with the Bain Capital-led consortium would not receive antitrust approval in March.
The Head of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore's central bank, stated on Monday that slow labour-force growth was inevitable.
Sources close to the matter reported on Monday that Sanofi SA was in talks of buying Bioverativ for more than $11.5B.
The US Democrats and Republicans appeared to harden their positions as they have hunkered down from the prolonged fight, while the US government shutdown continues.
According to the UN representatives, Congo's security forces killed six people and fired tear gas to scatter a banned protest against President Kabila organised by the Catholic church.
Pope Francis has urged countries of Latin America to deal with drug trafficking and tax heavens as politics in most of the countries suffers from corruption.
Non-OPEC and OPEC oil producers reached a consensus that they should prolong cooperation after the current agreement on production cuts becomes invalid at the end of 2018.
The US Vice President Pence has visited Israel on Sunday, after First Minister Netanyahu has praised him due to the fact that the US recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The House of Representatives has aimed to accept the bill funding the US government through February 8 to end the Federal Agencies shutdown, the US House Speaker Ryan told.
The currency trading driven by the computer models has increased and helped to keep the Shekel overvalued, after its weakened 11% against the Dollar last year, Bank of Israel said.
According to the French Le Journal du Dimanche, the country has dropped the bid to host the 2025 World Expo in Paris due to the budgetary reasons.
On Sunday, German Social Democrats voted to begin coalition negotiations with Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union of Germany, the negotiations are expected to start next week.
Reyhanli, a town on the Turkish border, was hit by another rocket launched from Syria after three missiles hit Reyhanli and killed one national of Syria earlier.
Iran called for an immediate end to a recent Turkish invasion in Afrin, the northern province of Syria, claiming that crisis in Afrin might help terrorist groups in the north of Syria.
Theresa May, the Prime Minister of UK, said that in spring her government will prepare a new bill against executives who risk with their employees' pension schemes.
50000 protesters joined anti-corruption march in Bucharest, while thousands more protest across the country against government-proposed laws, which affect Romanian justice system.
Twitter Inc. claimed it has found 1062 more accounts linked to the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency, accused of attempts to influence 2016 US Presidential elections.
Russian and OPEC claimed that oil-production limitations will be preserved until the end of the year and might be extended after 2018.