The Brazilian trade surplus hit $6.969B in April amid higher commodity prices, official figures revealed on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union called on California and Illinois attorneys to investigate how the largest fast-food chain McDonald's calculates rents.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would be "a bloody difficult woman" in talks over Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
Transport for London said it had struck a five-year agreement with TSBA Group to licence the iconic London Tube logo and map for global branding in an attempt to generate more revenue.
Abdusalom Azizov, Uzbekistan's Interior Minister, said on Tuesday that the state police were uncovering Islamist militants among those migrants returning home almost every day.
The US President Donald Trump will visit New York on Thursday for the first time after taking the Office at the beginning of the year, a trip that is seen to draw protests around the city.
Terry Branstad, the US President's nominee for Ambassador to Beijing post, said Chinese officials could do more to force North Korea to cut its nuclear programme.
China cannot be permitted to develop "artificial islands" to compel neighbours or restrain freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad said.
The Finance Minister of Germany urged the ECB to go back to a more neutral monetary policy strategy, saying the current policy may raise the possibility of another global financial crisis.
A major US wireless network operator T-Mobile announced its intentions to launch the fifth-generation network in the country as soon as 2019.
A Swedish radio reported the country's authorities had decided to give up interim border controls brought in back in 2015 to halt refugee inflow.
On Tuesday, the Czech Republic PM Bohuslav Sobotka announced about his resignation along with the government later this week over a dispute in the cabinet between him and the rival Finance Minister Andrej Babis.
Markit reported its PMI for the German manufacturing sector was little changed at 58.2 in April compared to the prior month's 58.3.
The Defence Minister of Germany Ursula von der Leyen had to call off her scheduled trip to the United States following the necessity to focus on the military officer's arrest suspected of an attack planning.
On Tuesday, the US lawmakers will examine the United Airlines officials over passenger forcible removal from the aircraft last month as the incident sparked worldwide outrage.
The UK PM Theresa May‘s spokesman stated that she would conduct the Brexit negotiations and was confident she would find a constructive way to approach the talks.
According to Eurostat, the Unemployment Rate in the Euro zone remained unchanged at 9.5% in March, missing expectations for a decline to 9.4%.
South Korea granted Samsung Electronics a permission to test a driverless car carrying the company's software and electronic parts at the domestic level, following Samsung intention to prove itself in the automotive industry.
On Tuesday, Markit reported that the Euro zone Manufacturing PMI rose to 56.7 last month from March's 56.2.
UNICEF reported on Tuesday that the number of children estimated to suffer malnutrition in Somalia in 2017 is projected to exceed the initial expectation by 50 percent, totalling in an anticipated 1.4 million children.
As of May 1, lending rates for both first and second home buyers have been raised by six major Chinese banks or more, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
On Monday, one of the French policemen was seriously burnt, while two others got injured in clashes during the Paris May Day demonstration.
Markit reported on Tuesday that UK Manufacturing activity rose to 57.3% in April from the proceeding month's 54.2%, surprising markets.
The European Central Bank Governing Council official Ewald Nowotny stated that the ECB would have to negotiate on its 2018 strategy and the QE eventual exit next month.