Investigators today recovered the two flight recorders, or "black boxes", from Thailand´s worst plane crash in a decade, which killed at least 90 people, mostly foreign tourists.
A new technique for testing DNA could transform civil litigation cases by supporting or refuting people’s claims that their health has been damaged by exposure to toxic chemicals.
Judges face having their performance in court assessed under plans to ensure that their skills in handling cases are up to scratch and that they treat people fairly and courteously.
Microsoft today lost its appeal against the largest-ever fine for restrictive practices imposed by the European Commission.
Northern Rock, the UK’s fifth largest mortgage lender, applied to the Bank of England for emergency support last night after struggling to raise money.
Two UK pension funds are vying to lead a US class-action lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), accusing the pharmaceutical giant of misleading the market over its controversial diabetes pill Avandia.
"Dr. Phil" can have access to documents about two brothers who were once suspected in the case of an Alabama teenager who vanished while on vacation in Aruba, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Next week´s European antitrust ruling against Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is a legacy of its past behavior, but competitors say the company´s current strategy is a sign of history repeating itself.
The Vatican, ruling on a debate that has divided Catholic hospitals, said on Friday it was wrong to stop administering food and water to patients in a vegetative state even if they would never regain consciousness.
Oil rose to an all-time high of $80.20 on Thursday after Hurricane Humberto forced the closure of some U.S. Gulf refiners and stoked concerns of fuel shortages this winter.
The parents of a Tennessee preacher shot to death by his wife convinced a judge to keep the convicted killer at home, but they couldn´t keep her off the air.
Employment agencies will face a legal crackdown to stop them exploiting workers after unions exposed a stream of abuses, suffered mainly by migrant workers.
Judges have reacted swiftly to condemn as “inappropriate and irresponsible” the publication of their home addresses by a fathers’ campaign group.
A City trader has won the backing of the equality watchdog in her £1.35 million claim against a bank that she accuses of discriminating against her when she returned to work after having a baby.
Two sisters in their eighties who claim that the law treats them less favourably than if they were a lesbian couple are to challenge Britain’s inheritance tax rules in Europe today.
The German investment bank is being sued by an Australian-born former managing director for racial discrimination
British officials held emergency talks in Brussels yesterday to hammer out stronger guarantees that the new EU treaty will not give European judges the right to challenge foreign policy.
Evidence suggesting that the parents of Madeleine McCann were involved in their daughter’s death was passed to a judge last night who will consider whether the couple should be charged.
Ashen-faced and his eyes welling with tears, Japan’s youngest postwar leader ended a turmoil-filled premiership that has lasted less than a year and delivered little of the reform it promised.
Vladimir Putin nominated a little-known Cabinet officer who oversees the fight against money laundering to become his new prime minister today, surprising pundits and stoking speculation as to whom he is planning to tap as his successor as president.
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