Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to start over with the coalition talks and build the government on Sunday.
The Danish scientist Hans Christian Orsted's descendants are planning to file a sue against his company over decision to change the name to Orsted.
The Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage is set to meet the EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier on Monday in an effort to convey the views of 17.4M Britons who had voted for Brexit.
Canada's Conservative Party expelled a senator Lynn Beyak on Thursday, following the publication on Beyak's official government website over indigenous people derision.
The Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is set to discuss defence cooperation with his NATO ally France on Friday, highlighting an important step Turkey plans to take with the EUROSAM defence consortium.
South and North Korea are set to hold official talks over the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and improving ties on January 9 at 0116GMT for the first time since December 2015.
China's decision to crackdown payment companies that hold reserve funds might hit profits, costing over $689M a year.
On Friday, at the Tsukiji fish market's final New Year auction the international sushi restaurant's owner Hiroshi Onodera shelled out $323K for prime Bluefin tuna.
Apple is planning to release a fix for its Macs and iPhones' Safari web browser, following a report on the 'Spectre' chip flaw that leaves computing devices vulnerable to hacks.
Alphabet's Google sought entering into the Chinese e-sports market, it said on Friday, after having invested $120M in China's mobile game platform Chushou.
The US State Department announced the suspension of at least $900M in security aid to Pakistan until the country copes with the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani militants.
According to a Reuters poll of economists, the US non-farm payrolls have supposedly increased by 190K over the course of December.
On Friday, the Japanese Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said he was certain the current government's tax relief plan would result in firms raising wages.
Canada's Conservative Party has expelled Senator Lynn Beyak on the comments posted on her website that claim indigenous Canadians are "lazy" compared to other Canadians.
Travis Kalanick, the ex-CEO of Uber Technologies, was selling almost a third part of his 10% stake in the company for nearly $1.4B, a source familiar with the matter said.
China trimmed slightly final 2016 GDP growth figure after it scaled back preliminary estimate for the country's services sector, but kept yearly gross domestic product growth rate at 6.7%.
A subsidiary of Canadian Brookfield Asset Management is set to acquire Westinghouse, the Toshiba-owned bankrupt nuclear services firm, for $4.6B.
Action camera producer GoPro was cutting nearly 200 to 300 positions in the company's aerial products division over this week, TechCrunch reported.
The US President Donald Trump reported on Thursday that he was working alongside lawmakers to develop a new immigration system that would improve security and benefit American workers.
On Thursday, the US imposed sanctions on five Iran-based entities it said were involved in Iran's ballistic missile programme.
Official sources reported on Thursday that the Canadian government would send its three cabinet ministers to the US to promote the NAFTA.
The EIA reported that US crude oil inventories dropped 7.4M barrels in the week ending December 29, following the prior week's fall of 4.6M barrels and surpassing analysts' expectations for a 5.2M-barrel decline.
The volume of rural credit loans of Banco Santander Brasil inched higher to $4B in 2017, as the local unit of the Spanish bank grew the presence in the developing agribusiness sector.
Unilever has aimed to close the Colman's mustard factory located in Norwich, East of England, after more than 160 years of production, affecting more than 110 jobs.