U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno of Philadelphia has tallied the number of times a litigant dropped the F-word or a variant in a deposition—it was 73 times—and calculated the sanction he and his lawyer should pay - it is more than $29,000.
New record on Wednesday after the OPEC cartel decided to keep its production unchanged, ignoring calls from President Bush to pump more oil into an ailing economy.
Brazilian beef company JBS is buying 4th-largest US beef processor for $560 million.
The service sector represents two-thirds of the US economy
The US service sector contracted less than analysts had expected in February, according to a survey from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM).
German airports have been severely disrupted after members of the Verdi public sector union went on strike.
Games Terrorists Play: US Seeks Suspects in Virtual Worlds
Gazprom, Russia´s gas monopoly, says it will cut supplies of gas to Ukraine by a further 25% from 1700GMT.
Ecuador has cut diplomatic ties with Colombia in a deepening crisis over a cross-border raid by Colombian troops.
A suspect in the assassination attempt against East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta
Inquiry Comes One Day After Lawmakers Requested Look at Pitcher´s Testimony
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the biggest cost to the country was not taxes but a century in which poor people had been forgotten.
Isaiah is a soft-spoken sixth-grader with poor grades, virtually no relationship with his father, and a police record that includes attempted breaking and entering and assault and battery - the latter on his mother and sister when he was 11 years old.
Some 160 Brazilian troops have been sent to the Amazon to join hundreds of police officers involved in efforts to tackle illegal deforestation.
Large law firm leaders and consultants tell the Wall Street Journal that legal work is slowing in several segments, leading them to expect a less than stellar year in 2008.
Visa Inc, the world´s largest credit-card network, on Monday said it may raise up to $18.8 billion in its eagerly awaited public sale of shares, which could make it the largest initial public offering ever.
Pakistan´s government has banned access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies that users have posted on the site, an official said Sunday.
Raúl Castro, who has labored in the shadow of his brother Fidel since the days of their revolution, became Cuba’s new president on Sunday, ending his brother’s 49-year rule and washing away hopes on this Communist island that a younger generation might take power.
Even as it enriches Arab rulers, the recent oil-price boom is helping to fuel an extraordinary rise in the cost of food and other basic goods that is squeezing this region’s middle class and setting off strikes, demonstrations and occasional riots from Morocco to the Persian Gulf.
The nationalisation of Northern Rock has been enshrined in law, the government has announced.
French judges on Thursday again questioned the rogue trader charged in the seven-billion-dollar scandal at Societe Generale, as well as another trader at the bank´s subsidiary, sources close to the case said.
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