CNBC World News

Jason Momoa's career has been a slow burn. After his character was killed off "Game of Thrones" in season one, the actor was "completely in debt."

Joe Biden's presidency will be a bigger problem for China than the Trump administration, economist Jim O'Neill told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Friday.

Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency is readying to launch as early as January, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Britain has asked its medicine regulator to assess the vaccine for a temporary supply, which could mean it's rolled out in the country before the end of the year.

Economists in a Reuters poll predicted that India's economy shrank 8.8% in the September quarter.

Around the world, architects and designers are developing buildings which integrate interesting materials.

The PBOC previously warned that reliance on borrowing to make debt repayments by some large firms could present a risk to the entire economy.

It comes as drugmakers and research centers scramble to deliver a safe and effective vaccine to help bring an end to the coronavirus pandemic.

Beijing is concerned countries in Asia will partner with the U.S. to counter China under President-elect Joe Biden, says Andrew Gilholm of Control Risks.

Positive results were announced by Singapore's Covid vaccine candidate ARCT-021, developed by Arcturus Therapeutics together with Duke-NUS Medical School.

Fitch Ratings said the number of defaults among Chinese state-owned enterprises could "rise marginally" in 2021 as funding conditions tighten.

The U.K. on Friday said a new government unit will work to tackle ongoing concerns about a concentration of power among a small number of tech giants.

Data on China's industrial profits for October is set to be out at around 9:30 a.m. HK/SIN on Friday.

Full-time operations employees will receive a $300 bonus, while part-time workers will get a $150 bonus.

Sequoia Capital, one of the best-known venture capital firms on Menlo Park's Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, has made a major new bet on Europe.

“We believe that this product will never be licensed in the U.S.,” one group of critical U.S.-based analysts wrote this week.

The company's "conversion lift" tool suffered a glitch that reportedly affected thousands of ads between August 2019 and August 2020.

First two phases of the development will be built simultaneously.

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, women have been bearing the brunt of extra childcare duties and unpaid domestic work, a study by the UN has found. 

Deutsche Bank upgraded its global growth outlook for 2021 but cautioned that two key risks could still spoil the economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.