A group of Hyundai Motor Co. shareholders filed a civil suit against Chairman Chung Mong Koo, asking him to compensate South Korea´s largest automaker following his conviction for breach of duty.
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. and 25 other companies sued Unipetrol AS, units of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Bayer AG, and as many as 20 others over an alleged European rubber cartel.
The Iranian government is engaged in systematic human rights abuses, an Iranian human rights group said in an annual report released Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert personally received cash from US businessman Morris Talansky while serving as a minister of industry, trade and labor, a state prosecutor said Monday in a hearing at the Supreme Court of Israel.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a measure to establish an anti-corruption council to be headed by Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin, Medvedev announced at a Monday press conference.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Monday charged eight former executives of AOL Time Warner, now known as Time Warner Inc., in a fraudulent scheme that overstated company advertising revenue by more than $1-billion (U.S.).
Microsoft released a statement on Sunday, saying that it is further aiming to “improve and expand its online services and advertising business,” hinting at the possibility of raising another deal with Yahoo! Inc., after it had previously withdrew its proposal to acquire the owner of the popular Web search engine.
The US Supreme Court upheld a federal law that punishes people who advertise or solicit child pornography.
Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia´s second-largest oil and gas producer, said it has been cleared of allegations of bribing a Mauritanian government official.
A former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. executive was indicted in South Korea for allegedly receiving money to help boost the stock price of a South Korean company, the prosecutors´ office said.
Metrovacesa SA, Spain´s largest real estate company, reached an out-of-court settlement with U.K. insurer Legal & General Group Plc on a development in London.
A law extending a smoking ban in Turkey to most enclosed areas - including taxis, ferries and shopping malls - came into effect Monday in the nicotine-addicted nation.
MPs vote on Monday on far-reaching changes to Britain´s laws on fertility research, including controversial proposals to allow scientists to create hybrid human-animal embryos.
Aristocrat Leisure has reached a settlement behind closed doors to end a shareholders´ class action, which could cost the gaming giant as much as $40 million.
BAE Systems confirmed Monday that chief executive Mike Turner and non-executive director Nigel Rudd were briefly detained by U.S. officials when they landed in the United States on business last week.
Counterfeiting of medicine, toys, food and other consumer goods is increasing, European Union customs officials said in a report voicing concern that more potentially dangerous products are coming onto the market.
Chinese insurance firms have paid a total 9.3 million yuan ($1.3 million) in claims related to China´s most powerful earthquake since 1950, the industry regulator said.
A double amputee sprinter has won the right to be eligible to compete at this summer´s Olympic Games in Beijing after sport´s highest court backed his appeal against a ban imposed by athletics authorities.
Freedom to set jail terms for criminals will be reduced under Government plans to ease the crowded prison system by imposing more community sentences.
The Barnes Foundation won the latest round in a legal dispute over a plan to move its collection of impressionist art to Philadelphia, against the wishes of some residents in the museum´s current suburban location.
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