The US Bureau of Labour Statistics revealed that the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1% for the third consecutive month in December.
According to the data released by Statistics Canada on Friday, the country's November trade deficit widened to $2.5B from $1.6B registered in October.
Airbus is in talks over selling at least 100 aircraft to China during the French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Beijing next week.
On Friday, Georgia's Court sentenced in absentia the country's former President Mikheil Saakashvili to three years in jail for trying to cover up evidence over a Georgian banker murder.
The White House and the US senators are willing to severe measures on Iran, while keeping Washington in the nuclear deal with Tehran.
According to the internal memo posted on Friday, Barclays named Kunal Gandhi as its corporate broking chief with Rob Mayhew as his new deputy.
China seeks to implement AI technology in about half of its new vehicles by 2020 and cover 90% of the country's highways and big cities with a wireless network to support smart cars.
Saudi Arabia has converted its oil giant Aramco to the joint-stock company starting January 1, ahead of the historic IPO scheduled for this year's second half.
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%.