Japanese online broker Monex Group said Friday it would buy virtual currency exchange Coincheck, which was hit by a massive hack that saw thieves steal hundreds of millions of dollars in virtual currency.

A Spanish judge will decide Thursday whether to free Herve Falciani, a former HSBC computer analyst detained in Spain at the request of Switzerland for leaking documents alleging widespread tax evasion, a court official said.

The Philippines is closing its best-known holiday island Boracay to tourists for up to six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage, authorities said on Thursday.

Europe's economic recovery is gaining pace, with eurozone unemployment at its lowest level since December 2008 and inflation on the rise, official figures showed Wednesday.
The EU's official statistics agency said the jobless rate in the single currency area fell to 8.5 percent in February, down from 8.6 percent in January.

China unveiled plans Wednesday to hit major US exports worth $50 billion such as soybeans, cars and small airplanes with retaliatory tariffs in an escalating trade duel between the world's two top economies.

Indian airline Jet Airways has entered an agreement to buy 75 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in a deal that could be worth more than $7 billion.

Lebanon, whose government hopes to raise billions of dollars at a donor meeting in France on Friday, is the world's third most-indebted country.

Britain will ban sales of ivory in a bid to help preserve the world's dwindling elephant population, the government announced Tuesday.

Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox on Tuesday proposed selling rolling TV channel Sky News to Disney in order to finally seal control of pan-European satellite broadcaster Sky.
Fox -- which for a long time has sought to buy the 61 percent of British pay TV giant Sky that it does not already own -- has also offered to ring-fence the 24-hour news channel instead, it said in a statement, as it looks to allay concerns over Murdoch's increasing media influence.

Europe's stock markets slid Tuesday following a Wall Street slump driven by trade war fears and technology sector woes.
