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President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act soon to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the U.S..

Arsenal skipper Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice to help his side secure a 2-1 win over 10-man Chelsea in the FA Cup final on Saturday for a record-extending 14th crown in the competition — and a spot in next season's Europa League.

The coronavirus has infected more than 17.5 million people around the world as of Friday, killing at least 679,439 people.

Vietnam recorded its first two deaths from Covid-19 on Friday after winning plaudits worldwide for one of the most successful national responses to the pandemic.

Microsoft's interest in TikTok comes after the Trump Administration said it is considering blocking the app in the U.S.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in an interview out Friday, compared the U.S. to a sports team that stands poised to lose after years of winning.

Stocks wiped out earlier losses Friday after the biggest tech companies and market leaders — Amazon, Apple and Facebook — soared on their stellar quarterly results.

A 17-year-old in Tampa, Florida, is accused of taking over the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and numerous other celebrities to scam people into sending the teen bitcoin.

Apple shares closed up 10.47% Friday, giving it a market valuation of $1.84 trillion. Saudi Aramco, which had been the most valuable publicly listed company since its market debut last year, now trails at $1.76 trillion as of its last close.

Almost 300,000 new coronavirus cases were reported to the World Health Organization over the last 24 hours, the largest single-day increase ever, the agency said Friday.

Fauci's testimony before a House subcommittee are at odds with President Trump, who has repeatedly claimed that the virus would "disappear."

The launch of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station marked the first time NASA astronauts took off from U.S. soil since 2011. The event also represented the first time a commercially built spacecraft carried NASA astronauts, an achievement that SpaceX and Boeing have vied for for years under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

L'Oreal's sales rose in July for the first time since January, Chief Executive Jean-Paul Agon said on Friday, striking a more upbeat tone for the rest of the year with signs of a turnaround in China.

Fiat Chrysler lost $1.24 billion (1.1 billion euros) in the second quarter as the coronavirus caused rolling shutdowns at its plants across the globe.

The results beat expectations as analysts had forecast 1.48 billion euros in net income.

The move comes after the government imposed restrictions across swathes of northern England following a rise in the rate of transmissions.

Chinese tech giant ByteDance is considering listing its domestic business in Hong Kong or Shanghai, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The legislative council vote was due to take place in September, but has been postponed amid a rise in virus cases.

The agreement with Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKelin is the government's second in less than two weeks for 100 million doses of vaccine.

A draft mandatory code announced by the Australian government would force Google and Facebook to pay news outlets for using their content.