The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal between Google and Yahoo)to share some advertising revenue, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
U.K. drug manufacturer AstraZeneca has won a major court decision in its ongoing battle to ward off generic versions of its widely prescribed antipsychotic drug Seroquel in the U.S. until its patent expires in 2011.
The nation´s busiest airport dueled with gun rights advocates Tuesday over whether a new Georgia state law allows visitors to carry firearms at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
French authorities abuse special anti- terrorist powers to detain and sometimes mistreat people who are simply acquaintances of suspects, Human Rights Watch said.
Brussels - The European Union on Wednesday approved Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia´s takeover of US digital mapmaker Navteq, saying that the deal would not harm competition in Europe.
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer, cut its full-year earnings forecast and agreed to pay $895 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit related to stock options given to company executives.
France´s EU presidency has started inauspiciously, with bickering between the bloc´s trade chief and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and gloomy comments from the Polish president about the EU´s future direction.
Polish president Lech Kaczynski will not sign the Lisbon Treaty, telling Polish daily Dziennik that signing it after the Irish decided they did not want their country to ratify the treaty was pointless.
California´s death penalty system is close to collapse, an independent commission said in a report that calls for judicial reform in the most populous US state.
The Defense Department and the Environmental Protection Agency are in a turf war over the clean up of toxic substances at Fort Meade and two other military bases.
U.S. President George Bush has signed legislation providing an additional $162 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Florida sued mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp on Monday for predatory lending practices, alleging the company at the center of the U.S. mortgage crisis made subprime loans to people who could not repay them.
Following in the footsteps of other European nations, the Netherlands has banned tobacco smoking in bars, restaurants and cafes, BBC News reported.
The UN secretary-general has called on leaders of Group of Eight (G8) nations, due to meet next week, to deliver on their aid pledges to Africa and to combat climate change.
South Korea´s prime minister said on Tuesday violent street rallies against a U.S. beef import deal are harming the country´s international credibility and driving investors away.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said his government is no longer prepared to negotiate with ETA to put an end to Basque separatist violence, according to an interview published Sunday.
Paris court on Monday ordered Internet auctioneer eBay to pay $63 million in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods online, according to reports.
France Telecom said Monday that it has withdrawn its proposed $42 billion takeover bid for TeliaSonera, which would have created Europe´s largest telecommunications company.
In April, Massachusetts and 17 other states filed an unusual legal petition in federal court to pressure the US Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the gases from cars and trucks. Last week, a federal court rejected the petition.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived at an African Union summit in Egypt on Monday, a day after he won a sixth term in a widely discredited runoff election.
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