India's Jagran Prakashan posted a 16.6% fall in second-quarter profit, as the publisher of the country's most read Hindi daily Dainik Jagran was hit by higher input costs.
Outgoing Puma chief executive Bjorn Gulden is set to become the new head of the German sportswear maker's competitor Adidas at the end of the year, Germany's manager magazin reported on Friday, citing company sources.
Twitter Inc temporarily closed its offices and cut workers access to internal systems on Friday after telling employees they would be informed by email later in the day about whether they were being laid off.
The Czech lower house of parliament approved on Friday a steep 60% windfall tax on energy firms and banks, aiming to raise $3.4 billion next year from profits deemed excessive to fund help for people and firms hit by soaring electricity and gas prices.
Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins said on Friday that while she supports pressing forward with interest rate rises to lower inflation, there's a good chance the pace of future increases could be smaller than what the U.S. central bank has been delivering over recent months.
Italian environmental protesters threw pea soup over a Vincent Van Gogh painting on display in Rome on Friday before gluing themselves to the wall of the gallery.
Cameras flashed as stars of the highly-anticipated sequel to Marvel's "Black Panther" walked the red carpet at the "Wakanda Forever" premiere in London.
The Group of Seven wealthiest democracies agreed to coordinate their support for repairing, restoring and defending Ukraine's critical energy and water infrastructure, G7 foreign ministers said on Friday at the end of a two day-meeting in Germany.
The Bank of England needs to raise interest rates further, but not as high as the 5.25% level which financial markets had priced in before the central bank's latest rate decision, BoE Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Friday.
