The French government and unions prepared for an extended transport and energy strike from this week in a pensions dispute that is shaping up as the first major battle over President Nicolas Sarkozy´s economic reform plans.
Three out of four judges and lawyers make no checks on the qualifications of expert witnesses, whose evidence can be crucial to a finding of guilt or innocence, research suggests.
A hotel guest who enjoyed illicit cigarettes in his no-smoking bedroom has been ordered to pay compensation to the establishment’s owners.
An embattled President Musharraf tried to defuse Pakistan’s worsening political crisis by promising to hold general elections in January.
A huge offshore oil discovery could raise Brazil´s petroleum reserves by a whopping 40 percent and boost this country into the ranks of the world´s major exporters, officials said.
A divided U.S. Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general on Thursday, setting aside concerns he might support interrogation methods decried worldwide as torture
It was the day that Finns broke their silence, abandoned their legendary stoicism.
An Italian judge has ruled that the three suspects in the murder of Meredith Kercher, the British student who was found dead a week ago, can be held in custody for up to a year, pending charges.
Gunmen opened fire on students returning from a march Wednesday in which 80,000 people denounced President Hugo Chavez´s attempts to expand his power. At least eight people were injured, including one by gunfire, officials said.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Wednesday defied a White House veto threat and voted to protect millions of Americans by outlawing workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Two boys who hated living in France so much they asserted their Britishness and refused to return to live there with their mother have been granted their wish by senior judges.
The number of terrorist prisoners held in jails in England and Wales is estimated to rise more than tenfold in the next nine years, it was disclosed yesterday.
General Motors Corp posted its largest quarterly net loss on Wednesday, reflecting a $39-billion charge related to unclaimed tax credits and a loss at its former finance subsidiary GMAC.
Shortly before it smashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma Tunnel, the Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed collided with a white Fiat Uno, an incident that would be “virtually impossible” to engineer deliberately, an accident reconstruction specialist told their inquests yesterday.
The former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan was in hiding last night after escaping house arrest as President Musharraf defied an international outcry and crushed a second day of protests against emergency rule
Lord Black of Crossharbour has failed in a last-ditch attempt to stay out of jail by having his fraud conviction overturned.
BMW, the world´s largest premium carmaker, reported third-quarter pretax profit that fell far short of market expectations amid a strong euro and higher raw material costs, sending its shares sharply lower.
Gordon Brown will try to recapture the political initiative today with his first legislative programme, as a poll for The Times shows that Labour’s standing has returned to where it was when he became Prime Minister.
President Bush pledged fresh American help to hunt down Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, during crisis talks yesterday with the Prime Minister of Turkey aimed at staving off a Turkish invasion of the country.
A call to protest by the chief critic of the Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, was cut short today when the Government shut down parts of the mobile telephone network in the capital.
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