Amazon.com is set to open its automated grocery store of future 'Amazon Go' on Monday, where its customers will be billed coming out of the store, following almost two years of testing.
According to Switzerland's migration authorities, the 2017 Swiss asylum requests dropped to the lowest level of 18,088 since 2010, as arrivals from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan tapered off.
The chief of the Russian VTB bank Andrey Kostin said that there was a high chance of his name being included in the new US list of Vladimir Putin's close aides.
On Monday, Kremlin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russian officials were in touch with Ankara over the Turkish military operation against YPG fighters in Afrin, Syria.
On Monday, Facebook stated it could offer no guarantee social media was good for democracy, adding the web platform would keep trying to stop the alleged election meddling.
Russian VTB is discussing change in terms and extension of Angola's $1.58B loan to ten years, so the country would not have had to acquit it within the following 1.5 years.
The former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont arrived in Denmark on Monday without being detained, following the Spanish prosecution's calls for his arrest in Copenhagen.
Airbus Helicopters posted a slight decrease to 409 units in its helicopter deliveries in 2017, compared to a 418 reading in the prior year, caused by an order slowdown in the sector.
Vietnamese court jailed the former politburo official Dinh La Thang to 13 years for violating state rules and embezzlement, state media reported on Monday.
On Monday, the Philippines raised the alarm again at the Mayon volcano, following a loud explosion that made the eruption likelier.
On Monday, the Japanese capital held its first North Korean missile attack drill, where volunteers were taking cover in underground spaces that would serve as safe haven in case of a strike.
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.