On Friday, the International Monetary Fund said that the US Dollar was overestimated by 15%, while assessments of the Yen, Euro and Yuan were in line with economic fundamentals.
Philip Hammond, the UK Finance Minister, said on Friday that there would be no instant changes in trade or immigration legislation after Brexit in 2019.
The European Union granted €46M to Italy to help it secure Libya's borders. The money transfer represents part of the EU' s attempts to reduce the flow of migrants arriving from Africa.
On Friday night, North Korea test-fired another ballistic missile into the sea that presumably landed in the Japanese EEZ. The US Department of Defense confirmed the launch.
One person was killed and several others injured when a unidentified assailant attacked people with a knife in a Hamburg supermarket, German police reported.
Amazon.com reported a jump in retail sales along with a profit slump, as its rapid, costly expansion into new shopping categories and countries showed no sign of slowing.
American Airlines Group Inc. reported profit fell in the second quarter despite a sharp increase in revenue due in part to higher ticket pricing and improved business domestically and in Latin America.
The US government on Thursday ordered family members of the US embassy staff stationed in Caracas to leave Venezuela due to the ongoing violence and the lack of food and medicine in the country.
On Friday, Britain ended its ban on electronic devices carried in the cabin of an aircraft on some flights from Turkey to the UK after launching new security measures.
Over 120 people were reported to be dead as a widespread flooding hit an Indian industrial state of Gujarat, paralysing infrastructure and damaging more than 1K cotton farmers.
On Friday, the United Nations urged Vietnam to release a dissident blogger, jailed to nine years in prison for propaganda against the country, as a sentence and trial's conduct did not comply with standards.
The European Commission vowed on Friday that negotiations over the potential transition period of Brexit could only start after its divorce issues were settled.
On Saturday, Sri Lanka is eager to sign a $1.1B deal with China on leasing its Southern Hambantota port after a few months of delay amid local protests over the deal could threaten national security.
Telecom Italia named Amos Genish as the company's General Manager of operations on Friday, the executive chairman stated, confirming the Reuters report.
The number of people injured in a commuter train crash in Barcelona Francia station climbed to 54; however, no deaths have been reported.
The mobile company Hutchison's Drei Austria is willing to buy the landline-focused Tele2 for the price of $111M amid firm's intention to rival Carlos Slim's telecommunications company Telekom Austria.
The Chinese bike-sharing start-up Ofo plans to raise $1B in a new fund-raising round managed by SoftBank Group, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The British Finance Minister Philip Hammond explained on Friday that no legislative changes in immigration and trade are expected immediately after Brexit in March 2019.
According to the CCTV, the China air force is seeking to continue with the flight drills at the sea, despite any interference it could encounter.
On Friday, the Court of Pakistan disqualified from the office the country's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, following a damning corruption inquiry into his family wealth.
On Friday, a commuter train crashed into buffer of a railway in the Barcelona's Francia station, leaving at least 48 people injured; hovewer, no deaths were reported at that moment.
According to the Statistics Bureau, the unemployment rate in Japan fell to 2.8% in June, compared to the prior month's 3.1% reading, surpassing expectations for a decline to 3.0%.
China's Baidu Inc posted an 83.5% rise in its Q2 profit as the company had been focusing on expanding its mobile and artificial intelligence services that raised earnings.
Malaysia's High Court announced it had set up a date for the trial of the two women suspected of killing the North Korea's leader half-brother Kim Jong Nam that would take place on October 2.