Oil companies will pay hundreds of millions of Dollars to Alaska in an official settlement over the North Slope crude oil's value that was shipped through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
A powerful earthquake, magnitude 6.5, struck Java island in Indonesia, killing at least three people, while hundreds of buildings were damaged.
South Africa is looking forward to increase spendings on local universities to 1% of GDP over the next few years, as the higher education funding commission has recommended.
According to the UK government, Britain and China have vowed to strengthen and continue cooperation on a wide range of trade, financial and economic issues.
According to South African Finance Minister Gigaba, the government would take the necessary tough decisions in order to stabilise economy growth and public debt.
According to British Finance Minister Hammond, the country was looking forward to negotiate a bespoke trade agreement with the EU that would differ from a Canada model deal.
NAFTA talks made some progress over less controversial issues, but left the subject of autos, an expiry clause and dispute settlement to be discussed in January in Montreal.
Unilever announced its decision to sell spreads and margarine business to the US private equity company KKR for $8.04B to focus on rapidly growing products.
The US Justice Department and AT&T held unsuccessful settlement negotiations over the pay-TV and wireless company's bid to purchase TV show and movie maker Time Warner.
The Bank of Canada retained the option of further interest rate increases in early 2018, despite unclarities, such as NAFTA talks, which could derail the country's economy.
According to survey prepared by the Export Development Canada, nearly six percent of Canadian companies could relocate part of their operations to the US because of ambiguity over the future of the NAFTA trade deal.
On Friday, CSX Corp's stock plunged 10.3% to $51.42 in premarket trade, as the company's CEO Hunter Harrison took medical leave for sudden complications from an unknown illness.
On Friday, the leader of Social Democrats (SPD) Martin Schulz agreed to start negotiations with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) on formation of a new German government.
According to report published by the Euromonitor International, Amazon.com is likely to become the biggest online retailer in Mexico by generating $502.2M sales this year.
On Friday, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged members of the Security Council to reinforce communication channels with North Korean officials in order to avoid further escalation of conflict.
According to the CNBC source, the US Republican Senator Marco Rubio will back a compromise variant of tax reform that was negotiated yesterday by the House and Senate.
Italy's inland revenue service reported on Friday that it had reached an agreement with Amazon to settle outstanding tax claims spanning 2011 to 2015.
The Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reported on Friday, that Turkey was taking an initiative at the UN in order to annul a decision by the US to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Ryanair reported on Friday that it had offered to recognize pilot unions in order to avert its first ever pilot strike.
Harvard University reported that its endowment would shift the real estate investment staff on February 1 into the private equity firm Bain Capital, with the idea to found a new property business.
On Friday, the US leader Donald Trump stated that Washington sought to receive Russia's help to convince Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear and missile programme.
According to Brazilian local newspaper, the scandalous conglomerate Odebrecht SA's board chairman Emilio Odebrecht is eager to step down in the next year's first half.
The Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Mashnouk signed a law to hold the long-awaited 2018 Parliamentary election on Sunday, May 6, his office stated on Friday.
Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, his American fiancée, are planning to marry on May 19, according to Kensington Palace statement on Friday.