The Philippine Foregin Minister Alan Peter Cayetano said on Friday that his country will try to conclude an agreement with Asian countries on ways to cooperate with North Korea amid increasing pressure from the US to sanction Pyongyang over its ICBM tests.
On Friday, Venezuela inaugurated a recently elected legislative body that is supposed to modify the constitution and enhance the powers of the ruling Socialist Party.
The EU have decided on Friday to broaden sanctions against Russia adding three more companies and three people to its Russia sanctions blacklist over illegal annexation of Crimea.
Wells Fargo & Co. announced on Friday that it would pay the US government $108M in order to settle down arising claims over loan issuance to military veterans.
At least nine people are still missing after water leaked into an underground station of the Mir diamond mine with more than 100 workers inside.
The US economy added 290K net new jobs in July, according to data that was released on Friday by the Labor Department.
Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty on Friday in US District Court in Detroit in a diesel emissions cheating scandal with nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles.
Singapore reported on Friday it would expel a China-born professor and his family from the city-state for collaborating with foreign secret agents.
Statistics Canada reported on Friday that the unemployment rate in Canada fell to 6.3% in July, missing expectations for an unchanged reading of 6.5%.
Facebook launched a new tool in Kenya that would help its users spot and limit the spread of fake news stories on its platform a few days before a hotly-contested general election.
On Friday, the Parliament of Ethiopia voted to lift the imposed last October emergency rule as the country seeks to restore stability after months of protests that left hundreds of people dead.
Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel called the US sanctions against Russia more than problematic as the aggressive move was clearly pursuing economic interests of the United States that the EU found unacceptable.
Volkswagen is intending to offer its five major brands' owners of older diesel cars some incentives to adopt the cleaner cars models, following a deal to tackle pollution.
The former head of the Chinese Communist Party Wang Min was jailed for life on Friday after he was found guilty of accepting more than $22M in bribes.
An ex-aid of the Israeli Prime Minister is set to testify in a case, in which the prime minister will be questioned as a suspect.
The European Union has announced that on Friday it will decide on adding more companies and names to the Russian sanction blacklist.
On Friday, the Emergencies Ministry reported that about 150 miners had been evacuated from the Siberian underground diamond mine Alrosa in Russia as water broke into.
A 79-storey residential high-rise in Qatar's Dubai was urgently evacuated on Friday as the skyscraper got engulfed with a huge fire due to some unknown reason.
On Friday, the Royal Bank of Scotland stated it was seeking to set up its European Union trading base in the Netherlands' capital of Amsterdam after Britain's withdrawal from the bloc.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Uber Technologies consciously bought over 1K of the recalled Honda's Vezel sport-utility cars that were at risk of catching fire and rented out the faulty vehicles to its drivers.
North Korea condemned White House's decision to bar the US passport holders from travelling to the North, while the state media called it a "sordid" try to limit tourist movement.
On Friday, the Danish Ritzau news outlet reported that the Denmark's Capital of Region responsible for Copenhagen hospitals was hit by a major IT breakdown, but gave no reason for the issue.
Toyota is eager take a 5% stake in Mazda Motor to establish a US auto plant and develop key electric vehicle technologies as part of a collaboration deal that should be announced on Friday, Nikkei reported.
Swedish Volvo Cars agreed to provide the engine technology for its parent Geely Holding Group's vehicles, deepening relations between the automakers as they had already shared technology through Lynk & Co brand.