Xinhua News Agency reported that the US President Donald Trump had left the White House for his vacation in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday evening.
The President of Iraq Fouad Masoum landed in Tehran on Friday to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani scheduled on Saturday.
Having served as the President of Rwanda for 17 years, Paul Kagame is set to claim another crushing victory in the presidential election, winning over 90% of votes.
In an official statement released on Friday, the MP for North Devon Peter Heaton-Jones expressed his concerns over the arrest of a British cyber expert in the US on hacking charges.
On Saturday, the UN Security Council will vote on a US-proposed resolution to significantly trim North Korea's annual export revenue over its ICBM tests.
According to the USGS, a 5.8-magnitude quake struck the southern part of Mindanao island, the Philippines, on Saturday morning, with the epicentre just 34 km away from a populous city.
On Friday, crude oil prices rose to $52.42 a barrel amid a release of strong US employment data.
The Shi'ite group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that Hezbollah will join a fight against the Islamic State on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
According to the Somali police officer Mohamed Hussein, a car bomb explosion that occurred in the centre of Mogadishu on Friday claimed life of at least one woman.
Herbert Diess, the CEO of Volkswagen, named Tesla, as company's main competitor in the new world, and noted that it has certain abilities that the VW currently lacks.
The Philippine Foregin Minister Alan Peter Cayetano said on Friday that his country will try to conclude an agreement with Asian countries on ways to cooperate with North Korea amid increasing pressure from the US to sanction Pyongyang over its ICBM tests.
On Friday, Venezuela inaugurated a recently elected legislative body that is supposed to modify the constitution and enhance the powers of the ruling Socialist Party.
The EU have decided on Friday to broaden sanctions against Russia adding three more companies and three people to its Russia sanctions blacklist over illegal annexation of Crimea.
Wells Fargo & Co. announced on Friday that it would pay the US government $108M in order to settle down arising claims over loan issuance to military veterans.
At least nine people are still missing after water leaked into an underground station of the Mir diamond mine with more than 100 workers inside.
The US economy added 290K net new jobs in July, according to data that was released on Friday by the Labor Department.
Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty on Friday in US District Court in Detroit in a diesel emissions cheating scandal with nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles.
Singapore reported on Friday it would expel a China-born professor and his family from the city-state for collaborating with foreign secret agents.
Statistics Canada reported on Friday that the unemployment rate in Canada fell to 6.3% in July, missing expectations for an unchanged reading of 6.5%.
Facebook launched a new tool in Kenya that would help its users spot and limit the spread of fake news stories on its platform a few days before a hotly-contested general election.
On Friday, the Parliament of Ethiopia voted to lift the imposed last October emergency rule as the country seeks to restore stability after months of protests that left hundreds of people dead.
Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel called the US sanctions against Russia more than problematic as the aggressive move was clearly pursuing economic interests of the United States that the EU found unacceptable.
Volkswagen is intending to offer its five major brands' owners of older diesel cars some incentives to adopt the cleaner cars models, following a deal to tackle pollution.
The former head of the Chinese Communist Party Wang Min was jailed for life on Friday after he was found guilty of accepting more than $22M in bribes.