A student who was taken to court for putting her feet on a train seat escaped a potentially career-wrecking criminal conviction yesterday after lawyers branded the case a “ludicrous” waste of time and money.
A senior judge said the entire UK population and every visitor to the country should be included on the national DNA database, creating a debate over the controversial issue.
The Hovis-to-Mothers Pride group blames surging wheat costs and governments´ push on biofuels for the rising price of a loaf.
Embattled former district attorney Mike Nifong was held in criminal contempt of court and sentenced to one day in jail Friday for his actions in the flawed Duke lacrosse team rape case.
From across the arena, Jeri Hekia and her 8-year-old grandson, Micah Craig, called out to Hekia´s husband as he prepared for the rodeo.
A student is being prosecuted after she briefly put her flip-flops up on a train seat.
The opposition Jamaica Labour Party appeared to win power by a narrow margin on Monday, ending an 18-year reign by the ruling People´s National Party, which served notice it would likely challenge the result.
President Bush made a surprise eight-hour visit to Iraq on Monday, emphasizing security gains, sectarian reconciliation and the possibility of a troop withdrawal, thus embracing and pre-empting this month’s crucial Congressional hearings on his Iraq strategy.
Two men sealed the state´s first legal same-sex marriage with a kiss Friday morning, less than 24 hours after a judge threw out Iowa´s ban on gay marriage and about two hours before he put the ruling on hold.
Leona Helmsley´s decision to leave $12 million to her dog so it could live out its life in luxury proved once and for all that she was not one of the little people.
Ministers will face calls this week to extend the laws to protect the elderly as tribunals brace themselves for a surge in age discrimination claims.
Europe´s largest bank agrees to buy 51% of Korea Exchange Bank from US group Lone Star despite legal ownership wrangles.
Gordon Brown faces the humiliating prospect of having to return hundreds of millions of pounds that has been reclaimed in overpaid tax credits in the latest blow to the complex benefit system he introduced.
A U.S. military plane with three U.S. senators and a U.S. House member onboard came under rocket fire while leaving Baghdad, Iraq, for Amman, Jordan, Thursday night and had to take evasive maneuvers.
Bank customers have paid out an average of £742 in “illegal” penalties over the past six years, it was claimed yesterday. About 18 million of the banks’ 45 million customers have been charged penalties, some as high as £39 a day, since 2001.
A leading solicitor is being investigated by police over allegations of bribery after a senior judge raised concerns about her conduct.
A row over alleged Vatican interference in Italian affairs has erupted after a demand by the European Commission for Italy to explain tax breaks for the Catholic Church on income from property.
After 13 years of reviewing drafts, the National People’s Congress approved a law that bans price-fixing, collusion, excessive market concentration and other monopolistic practices by private and state-owned businesses alike.
Such men don´t urge jail visitors to conceal their mouths, for fear of surveillance cameras and lip readers. And they don´t pay $240,000 in hush money to an admitted hit man.
A total of 132,562 couples formally split last year, down 6.5 per cent, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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