President George W. Bush set a new national goal of stopping the rise of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by 2025.
The chairman of South Korean firm Samsung, Lee Kun-hee, has been indicted for tax evasion and breach of trust, prosecutors say.
The US Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the use of lethal injections to execute prisoners.
The Bank of England is poised to launch a new lending programme for UK banks in an effort to break the logjam in the credit market, the BBC has learned.
Electric car maker Tesla Motors has sued a well-known automotive designer it hired to style the body and interior of its electric-hybrid four-door sedan, after the man announced plans for a competing vehicle.
Iran is ready for negotiations on nuclear and other issues provided such talks do not violate the country´s rights, the president said on Wednesday.
Psystar Inc., a Miami company, has begun selling a $400 computer based on Apple Inc. (AAPL) software. The move, as brief as it may last, hints at what life would be like if Apple made its software available to other computer makers.
Parmalat SpA fell for a second day in Milan trading after Citigroup Inc. won dismissal of most of the claims in a New Jersey lawsuit that sought billions of dollars in damages over the 2003 collapse of the dairy company.
Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, won a European Union court decision barring a Spanish company from getting an EU-wide trademark on “Citi.´´
Chinese activists are urging shoppers to stay away from French retailer Carrefour, following the Olympic torch´s troubled passage through Paris.
J.P. Suarez, the chief compliance officer for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., appeared with outspoken gun control advocate Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York to announce the changes at a gathering of Bloomberg´s group Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
The Democratic National Committee wants a ruling on whether it was legal for him to reject public financing in his primary effort after indicating he´d take the money.
A number of large law firms have recently lost their female managing partners, leading some to wonder whether women’s gains are slipping.
A proposed free trade agreement between the US and Colombia will be "dead" unless Congress considers it soon, President George W. Bush has warned.
Google engineers have adapted a software program to help track child sex predators and search for patterns in images of abuse on the web.
Seagate Technology LLC has filed a lawsuit against STEC Inc on Monday for violating patents related to various Seagate technologies, including solid-state memory storage and memory backup systems.
IMF Australia Ltd., the world´s biggest fund that invests in lawsuits, will open a Dublin office to finance European litigation and benefit from an increase in lawsuits in the wake of the global credit crunch.
According to Xinhua, during a conference held on Saturday in China´s Hainan Province, Wang Jianzhou, the chairman of China Mobile, admitted that the company has not started formal talks with Apple regarding the distribution of iPhone.
A famed civil rights leader who was present when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated almost exactly 40 years ago has been convicted of sexually abusing his daughter during the 1990s, when she was a teenager.
The Federal Government has defended moves to give bosses new powers to monitor their workers´ email and internet traffic.
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