On Friday, two passenger trains collided in the Egypt's city of Alexandria, leaving at least 37 people dead and 123 injured.
Italy's fourth largest bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena reported a $3.1B loss in the second quarter amid additional write-offs of the sub-prime loans.
According to the White House official, the US President Donald Trump will send Jason Greenblatt and Jared Kushner to the Middle East to discuss with regional leaders the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
According to the Somali police, one soldier has been killed by an unknown suicide bomber in the centre of Mogadishu.
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.