A total of 26 people were injured, six of whom were seriously burnt, in a fire at a bank in Australia's second largest city of Melbourne on Friday.
The U.S. government said Monday that it will release in the coming weeks a set of principles for securing the Internet of Things, or Internet-connected devices, which were employed partly by hackers to carry out Friday's cyberattacks that disrupted major U.S. websites.
Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Saturday decreed Oct. 24 will be a national mourning day for the victims of Friday's train derailment accident, which left more than 70 people killed.
The UN Security Council is scheduled to have an emergency meeting on Saturday to discuss the current situation in Syria as Russia and the United States are at odds with each other over the airstrikes on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, diplomats told Xinhua here Friday.
The Bank of England (BOE) Friday asked the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) to investigate the flash crash in sterling that took place during trading on Friday.
But visiting British Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Dept for International Trade, says in Hong Kong that currency has “probably been too high anyway” and is now correcting
The British pound took a dive in early Asian trade on Friday, hitting its lowest level since 1985, as traders scrambled to assess the cause of the heavy selling.
Typhoon Meranti, which landed in eastern China's Fujian Province Thursday morning, has left 14 people dead and another 14 missing.
After the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced it has successfully carried out another nuclear test on Friday, the international community voiced its strong condemnation over the event.
U.S. stocks ended sharply lower on Friday, as investors became cautious amid comments by U.S. Federal Reserve officials and concerned that the central bank might hike interest rate this month.
Death toll caused by powerful Typhoon Lionrock in northern and northeastern Japan earlier in the week reached 14 on Friday.
Almost 60,000 mobile phone users switched carriers over two days to buy Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 smartphone.
U.S. stocks ended lower after wavering in a tight range Friday, as investors kept cautious amid hawkish remarks on rate hikes from Federal Reserve officials.
Former long-distance runner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima lit the Olympic flame on Friday as the Rio 2016 Games were officially declared open.
Turkish Interior Minister Efkar Ala on Friday told media that 18,044 people have been detained after a failed coup attempt.
Shares of Japan's Nintendo Co soared more than 20 percent after Friday's surge, adding $7.5 billion to its market value in just two days, on hopes that strong sales of its new Pokemon GO videogame for smartphones will boost earnings.
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