Cuban president Raul Castro has said he will raise state pensions by up to 20% and increase wages for court employees.
Wachovia Corp. has agreed to pay an estimated $144 million to settle federal allegations that it failed to block telemarketers who took advantage of thousands of elderly bank customers.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has alleged tobacco firms and supermarkets have been engaged in unlawful practices linked to retail prices for tobacco.
There is a "real possibility" that the Beijing Olympics will be attacked by terrorists, the head of global police body Interpol has warned.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been granted leave to appeal to the House of Lords against a ruling that it acted unlawfully in dropping a BAE probe.
A federal judge has ruled that a school district in Louisiana must stop allowing the distribution of Bibles in schools, saying that the distribution is "a religious activity without a secular purpose" in violation of the First Amendment.
The world´s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, is restricting sales of rice at one of its chains - the latest sign of a global shortage of the staple food.
The European Commission has raised concerns that an Italian government loan given to Alitalia is illegal state aid and is seeking more details.
Rising food prices have developed into a global crisis, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.
A Senate committee voted Thursday to nullify a recently approved Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market.
Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes could be jailed for up to three years when he is sentenced for tax evasion later.
North Korea was helping Syria build a nuclear reactor, US officials are to tell lawmakers in a closed session.
Mitsubishi Motors asked Palm Beach Circuit Judge Elizabeth Maass on Wednesday to acknowledge she made serious errors in a trial that produced an $11 million verdict for the parents of a college student killed in a rollover crash.
US District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California on Monday sentenced former Chinese television executive Tai Wang Mak to 10 years in prison for conspiring with his brother, Chi Mak, to smuggle sensitive naval intelligence data to China.
Britain´s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) won the right on Thursday to appeal against a London High Court ruling which sharply criticised the halting of a corruption investigation into a Saudi arms deal.
The US government has abandoned a prototype "virtual fence" along the US-Mexico border after the system failed to perform up to expectations, according to Wednesday media reports.
FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the US House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that he had advised officials at the Departments of Justice and Defense that some interrogation tactics employed against terror suspects might be illegal.
Yoko Ono is suing the makers of a documentary for using John Lennon´s song Imagine without permission.
The Spanish government has called for a United Nations-backed force to tackle piracy at sea, after a Spanish trawler and its crew were seized off Somalia.
A group of Chinese lawyers have sued CNN, saying remarks by commentator Jack Cafferty in which he called Chinese "goons" violated the dignity and reputation of the Chinese people, a Hong Kong newspaper said.
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