Growing tensions between the US and North Korea have caused $1T damage to world stocks, as investors transfer funds to safe-haven currencies, gold and government bonds.
Students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have invented a prototype of a biodegradable car made of sugar beets that can travel up to 80km per hour.
Bjarne Graven Larsen, CIO at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, said that Canada had an advantage over the US in terms of attracting infrastructure funding.
The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Robert Kaplan said that the Fed's interest rate was close to "neutral"; however, evidence of rising inflation was still needed.
The economy of Brazil is set to recover in a gradual pace during the next months, as key interest rates would keep falling, the country's Central Bank President stated.
The Labour Department reported that the US Consumer Price Index rose modestly 0.1% in July, after being unchanged in the previous month and missing expectations for a 0.2% gain.
On Friday, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that she considered military approach as a wrong way to solve the conflict between the United States and North Korea.
At least one person was injured in a house blast in the Northern England's city of Sunderland, which was not caused by any militant activity, the police confirmed on Friday.
Snap's shares plunged over 11% on Friday after its messaging app Snapchat posted a report on its Q2 daily active user's growth with a drop of 2.2M users, missing analysts' expectations.
The Slovenian Parliament speaker Milan Brglez announced on Friday that the country's Presidential election will take place on October 22.
On Friday, over hundreds of Nigerian people staged out a protest, storming Shell's crude oil station in Niger Delta, demanding infrastructure development, jobs and benefits from oil production.
The ousted Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif's wife is willing to contest a special Parliamentary election for her husband's seat that he had to vacate in July, following a disqualification by the Supreme Court.
The senior ex-British minister James Chapman who called for a movement to block Brexit stated on Friday that two top members of the PM Theresa May's government were sympathetic to his plans.
India is discussing its plan with Myanmar and Bangladesh to deport about 40K of Rohingya Muslims amid refugees' illegal living in the country.
Tensions in the Korean Peninsula have increased demand for the Japanese Yen as a safe-haven currency which was trading at an eight-week high against the US Dollar on Friday.
An economic survey by the Indian government showed that the previously-set GDP growth forecast of 6.75-7.5% would be difficult to attain this year due to deflationary pressures.
On Friday, Turkey's police detained 42 suspected militants related to operations across the Elazig and Adana provinces, the media and security forces reported.
According to the British police, a fire that took place at the underground station of London's Oxford Circus on Friday has not being considered as suspicious.
Google won an approval to build a campus alongside the tech giant's offices in the King Cross district in London late on Thursday.
On Friday, the state fund 1MDB stated it had paid $350M to Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment for the debt deal after Abu Dhabi extended its deadline earlier this week.
According to polls, the US may mark its longest economic expansion in over 150 years, if the recovery from 2007-2009 financial crisis takes another two years or more.
The venture capital company Benchmark has filed a suit against the former CEO of Uber Travis Kalanick as it seeks to force him off the ride-services firm's board.
On Friday, a 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit the Philippine's island of Luzon with jolts felt in the capital of Manila that forced the evacuation of schools and offices; however, no casualties were reported yet.
Google's meeting to elaborate on the fallout of the company's decision to dismiss the employee that posted an anti-diversity memo last week was cancelled due to fears over online harassment.