European Union authorities raised pressure on Google, Facebook and Twitter over their user terms, asking to improve them in line with EU laws.
Oil prices rose by 1% on Monday in response to Saudi Arabia's pledge to limit crude exports in August, thus aiming to tackle the global oversupply of oil.
The French Budget Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday that the country was ready to negotiate a bargain with Google which is liable to pay €1.1B in back taxes.
The American holding Alphabet Inc. appointed Google's CEO Sundar Pichai to its board alongside the co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company said on Monday.
The Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said that the country might have been exposed to risks of leaking confidential information from a rushed contract with IBM Sweden.
The American conglomerate Honeywell International Inc beat expectations by reporting a solid quarterly profit, thus resulting in a surge of its shares by 1.8%.
Britain's International Trade Secretary Liam Fox explained on Monday that the UK wanted to ensure that bilateral ties with the United States would not broken after Brexit.
The Central Bank of Ireland warned that the country would need to partially cool the economy in the next couple of years, if full employment coincides with higher public investment.
Since the financial crisis, the least amount of trade-restrictive rules were introduced, despite concerns that the US would impose more rules to protect the country's job market, the WTO said.
Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei stated that the country sees no prospects on how to solve the crisis between Ukraine and Russia without regional summit.
Ryanair was in talks with Boeing about the MAX 10, the larger version of the 737 aircraft, but made clear that it was ready to order new airliners only for a lower price.
Germany urged the European Union to include up to four Russian companies and nationals into the bloc's blacklist over Siemens energy equipment illegally delivered to Crimea.
The International Monetary Fund updated China's economic growth forecast to 6.7% for this year, after the country showed stronger-than-expected performance in the Q2.
Private equity company KKR agreed to acquire WebMD Health in a deal worth around $2.8B, extending its Internet Brands Unit of popular online health information web-sources.
No less than 25 people were reported to be killed, including police officers, in a suicide bomber's attack in the Pakistani second-largest city of Lahore.
According to the Russian Deputy Minister Vyacheslav Kravchenko, Russia is about to announce about its plans to build another power station in the sanctioned Crimea peninsula in the nearest future.
The music streaming firm Spotify is moving towards signing of a new licensing royalty deal with Warner Music, which is likely to be clinched by September.
According to the sources familiar with the matter, Germany is seeking to add four more Russian firms and nationals to the European Union sanctions blacklist over Siemens Crimea turbines issue.
The Kremlin stated on Monday that the proposed new US sanctions against Russia were raiding worries about a presumable negative impact they might have on the European investment projects such as Nord Stream 2.
On Monday morning, Qatari websites and TV channels were unblocked in Saudi Arabia due to a technical glitch; however, sanctions were reimposed later that day.
Volkswagen is eager to hold an extraordinary supervisory board meeting on Wednesday over allegations regarding a cartel in the car industry.
Saudi Arabia said that OPEC would address immediately weak member compliance with curbing their oil supply, as well as monitor the growing production from Libya and Nigeria.
The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China wished to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea, thus trying to diminish tensions about the disputed waters.
On Monday, the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte vowed that his controversial drugs war would go on and no international pressure or criticism would deter him.