U.S. payrolls missed expectations in March with an increase of 103,000, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 percent.

Three assailants smashed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before attacking revellers in a popular nightlife hub with knives, leaving seven dead in the third deadly terror attack in Britain since March.

U.S. consumer confidence showed a better than expected improvement in March, while the index of current conditions jumped to its highest level since November 2000.

Arsene Wenger says he will be in a management position next season at Arsenal or another club, expects to make a decision in March or April.

A law allowing Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger Britain's exit from the European Union cleared its first legislative hurdle on Wednesday, paving the way for the government to launch divorce talks by the end of March.