The world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, sold a million Amazon shares this week for $1.1B, representing 1.3% of his holding and leaving Bezos with a 16.4% stake in the retailer.
T-Mobile USA Inc. and Sprint Corp. ended merger negotiations, as the companies could not find mutually agreeable terms.
China's top legislature revised its law against unfair competition, aiming to protect rights of both business operators and consumers and address new problems emerging in the market.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the Lebanese Prime Minister's resignation would create tensions in Lebanon and the region.
Foreign ministers of Germany and Turkey informally met in Antalya to discuss the bilateral relations, including difficult issues and mutual expectations.
During a meeting with Bill Gates, China's Premier Li Keqiang called for closer China-US collaboration in developing the next generation nuclear power technology.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday that Russia and the United States are not working together on resolution of the North Korean crisis. Two countries have only rare "exchanges of views", he added.
On Saturday, the US President Donald Trump started his Asian trip during which he plans to visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines and specifically discuss the North Korean crisis.
According to the RIA news agency, a couple of Russian long-range strategic bombers Tu-22M3 hit the IS weapon caches and command centres near the city of Abu Kamal in Syria.
One of the Austria's well known left-wing politicians Peter Pilz was forced to quit from parliament on Saturday amid a sexual assault allegation.
On Saturday, the expelled President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont urged his supporters to create united political front for the upcoming snap regional elections to continue to fight for Catalonia's independence.
According to the RIA news agency, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and his American colleague Donald Trump might discuss a deal on Syria at the ASEAN Summit in Vietnam next week.
A senior US official highlighted on Saturday that the American government will continuously adjust its sanctions in order to react properly to changing situation in Myanmar.
On Saturday, the Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad al-Hariri decided to resign, referring to fear for his life and criticizing Iran's ally Hezbollah.
According to Islamic State, the New York truck attacker was a caliphate soldier and the country has claimed any responsibility for this deadly assault, which killed eight people.
The comprehensive review by the 13 federal agencies showed that global warming's evidence has become much stronger and at least 90% if it was caused by human activities.
According to the Iraqi Shi'ite militia spokesman Hussaini, the military force that fought Islamic State near the Syrian border would take on the jihadist group in Albu Kamal.
More than 1,000 Australian citizens have protested against the treatment of asylum seekers in the offshore detention camp, which the UN described as unfolding emergency.
Afghanistan's telecoms regulator has addressed the Internet service providers and urged them to block the messaging services such as Telegram and WhatsApp.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the US health insurer Anthem CEO Swedish would retire, while Gail Bordeaux, the industry veteran, would lead the company.
PBoC Governor Xiaochuan has presented the strategy for future financial crisis prevention, urging China to promote direct finance and broadened equity funding to cut corporate leverage.
According to the Australian competition regulator, Amazon was allowed by the competition law to undercut local businesses with extremely low prices when the company opens for business there.
British private sector growth held steady for the last three months to October, while Brexit concerns and the inflation hit to consumers highlighted the potentially modest growth.
Shares of Apple inched higher to a record high after customers surged into the company's stores all over the world to purchase the new premium smartphone iPhone X.