Britain will "fight back" if the EU will not strike an acceptable deal on Brexit, finance minister Philip Hammond said Sunday.

Nigeria's anti-graft agency on Thursday filed corruption charges against oil majors Shell and Eni over a $1.3 billion offshore block deal. 

Two months before France's presidential elections, workers for Whirlpool in the northern French city of Amiens are torn between anger and resignation as the U.S. appliances giant prepares to move their jobs to Poland.

China counts more than 100 billionaires among its top legislators, with 209 of the richest holding wealth nearly equivalent to Belgium's annual GDP, according to a report released as the Communist Party's annual parliamentary session started Friday.

Asian equity markets fell on Friday after a broad global rally, but the dollar strengthened against most other currencies as traders become increasingly confident the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates this month.

Investors took their cash off the table on profit-taking Thursday after the previous day's surge fuelled by Donald Trump's address to Congress, in which he promised massive infrastructure spending and tax cuts.

Prime ministers from four eastern EU members on Thursday rejected a future "multi-speed" bloc and demanded Brussels have an agreement on its post-Brexit future hammered out before a key summit in Rome later this month.

Canada's economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.6 percent in the final months of 2016, catapulted by stock market commissions and goods purchases, the government statistical agency said Thursday.

Cement maker LafargeHolcim admitted on Thursday it had resorted to "unacceptable practices" to continue operations at one of its now-closed factories in Syria.

World Trade Organization chief Roberto Azevedo extended an olive branch to Washington on Thursday after President Donald Trump's administration announced the U.S. was not bound by WTO rulings. 

The U.S. decision marks a clear break from past and could threaten the viability of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), where major trade conflicts are often adjudicated. 

Cyprus saw its best ever receipts from tourism in 2016, data showed Wednesday, in a record year for the Mediterranean holiday island considered a regional safe haven.

Tourism income last year reached 2.36 billion euros compared to 2.11 billion in 2015, an 11.9 percent increase, according to official data.