A crucial two-day session of the Indian parliament to take up a vote of confidence in the United Progressive Alliance government began Monday with the prime minister expressing confidence that his coalition will prevail.
Yahoo! Inc. reached a compromise with billionaire activist Carl Icahn, agreeing to give him three board seats to settle a fight for control of the Internet company.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc, which licenses the flu drug Relenza from Biota Holdings Ltd., paid the Australian company $20 million ($19.5 million) to settle a lawsuit.
Facebook begins to take legal action against social networking web sites that copy the site´s design. Attorneys representing Facebook have filed a lawsuit against a German-based social networking web site that has a user interface that is virtually identical to Facebook.
Investors filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against Bank of America Investment Services Inc. and Bank of America Securities, alleging that brokers deceived them about their risk.
California regulators have issued fines to both Blue Shield and Anthem Blue Cross on Thursday, worth a total of $13 million.
Swiss bank UBS said Thursday it will stop offering offshore-banking services to U.S. clients after a threat to its U.S. banking privileges.
Zephyr Co., a Tokyo-based builder of condominiums, sought protection from creditors after sales of homes in the Japanese capital declined.
Belvedere SA, the French maker of Sobieski vodka whose shares have dropped 70 percent in the past year, received bankruptcy protection from a French court.
In a battle between Barbie and the Bratz gang of dolls, the long-legged blonde might not seem a match for the street attitude of her upstart rivals, but last night she won the biggest catfight in toyland.
The Senate may soon lift a two-decade old ban on HIV-positive people from visiting or immigrating to this country. The repeal is included in a wider measure that Congress is expected to pass this week to spend $50 billion over five years to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria around the world.
A McDonald´s Corp. franchisee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to furnishing illegal immigrants with false identities and will pay $1 million in fines in one of the federal government´s first major crackdowns on illegal labor in the fast-food industry.
The Arab League, African Union (AU) and others have criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor´s Monday application for an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
President Bush said Tuesday that the United States is looking at ways to punish Zimbabwean leaders after China and Russia blocked sanctions at the United Nations last week.
The FBI is investigating failed IndyMac Bank for possible mortgage fraud, US media reported on Thursday, citing US officials. The California-based IndyMac Bank, which government regulators seized last week, is among 21 banks being probed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.
In a bid to contain pollution, legislators in the U.S. state of California have voted to impose a fee on every container moving through the ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland, a Los Angeles Times report said Wednesday.
LGT Group, the bank owned by Liechtenstein´s ruling family, considered creating an account to facilitate bribe payments for transactions involving commodity trader Glencore International AG, a U.S. Senate report says.
Spain violates European Union rules by making approvals of Spanish utility mergers dependent on the prior endorsement of its energy regulator, the EU´s highest court said.
A senior U.S. official says the United States will send a top diplomat to participate in talks with Iran about Tehran´s nuclear program at a meeting Saturday in Geneva.
A number of 43 states will receive money from drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb as part of a nationwide settlement with the company that concludes an investigation into whether the company overcharged Medicaid program for its drugs and tried to advertise one of its drugs for an unapproved used.
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