Adidas can prevent other companies using two stripes on the shoulders of their shirts, even though Adidas branding has three stripes.
German utility RWE has made an £11bn takeover approach for the UK´s nuclear operator, British Energy, reports say. The proposed cash offer of almost 700p per share, would value the UK government´s 35% stake in the firm at £4bn, the reports said.
The U.K. Government must reconsider its decision to drop a bribery investigation related to contracts between BAE Systems Plc, Europe´s biggest defense company, and Saudi Arabia, a U.K. court ruled today.
A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that an Afghan tribal chief charged with conspiring to violate US narcotics laws must face trial even though US officials lured him into the United States.
The Nebraska Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a motion for rehearing filed by state Attorney General Jon Bruning asking the court to reconsider its February ruling that execution by electric chair is "cruel and unusual"
The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a subpoena Wednesday to compel the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to turn over documents relating to White House involvement in the EPA decision to deny California´s request for a greenhouse emissions waiver
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the world economy will grow much more slowly in the next two years as a result of the credit crunch.
Citigroup Inc, the largest U.S. bank, is close to selling about $12 billion of leveraged loans and bonds to a group of private equity firms, people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday launched a new initiative to combat income tax evasion.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Monday reversed and vacated a jury award of $2.5 million in punitive damages awarded to a Mississippi couple who lost their home in Hurricane Katrina and later sued State Farm Insurance for rejecting their homeowner insurance claim.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued five former San Diego city officials in federal court Monday, alleging they committed securities fraud by failing to disclose funding shortfalls in the city´s pension and health care plans to potential buyers and sellers of San Diego´s municipal bonds.
The anesthetic dosage delivered under Ohio´s lethal injection protocol is sufficient to prevent the condemned inmate from suffering during an execution, according to Tuesday testimony from an anesthesiologist during a court hearing on the constitutionality of Ohio´s death penalty procedure.
A man received a smoker´s cancerous lungs in a transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and died six months later, according to a lawsuit against the hospital and several doctors.
The United States will not restrict visa-free travel for European tourists, despite a growing number of terrorist plots involving European citizens, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said Monday.
The board of the Italian airline Alitalia is meeting to decide whether to seek protection from its creditors.
A federal jury has ordered American Airlines Inc. to pay $325,000 to nine skycaps at Boston´s Logan International Airport who claimed they lost tips when the airline began charging $2 per bag for curbside check-in service.
The number of UK firms closing for business has risen by 8.5% in the first three months of 2008, a report says, the first increase for over a year.
Ofwat is proposing to fine Severn Trent Water £35.8m for providing false information deliberately and offering the company´s customers a poor service.
A coroner’s jury has ruled that paparazzi and the driver of a car that tried to escape them share the blame for the car crash that caused the death of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed.
Women face legalized discrimination in nearly every country in the world despite pledges by 185 members to eliminate laws favoring men by 2005, according to a UN-commissioned report released Sunday.
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