The first shipment of U.S. beef under a controversial import deal arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, state media reported. The resumption of U.S. beef imports follows a nearly five-year ban after a case of mad cow disease turned up in the United States. It also comes in the midst of continuing public concern over it.
The U.S. Congress agreed on Monday to a ban on a family of toxins found in children´s products after research showed that the chemicals act as hormones and cause reproductive problems, especially in boys.
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce this week that Comcast for wrongly blocked access to file-sharing traffic.
Great Wall Motor Co., China´s largest maker of sport-utility vehicles, said a local court dismissed a claim that it had copied a Fiat SpA model, contradicting an earlier ruling by an Italian court.
Citigroup Inc. lost its bid to have dismissed a lawsuit by Parmalat SpA accusing the bank of helping corrupt insiders loot the dairy company, Italy´s biggest.
US regulators have accused a Dutch trading business and three senior employees including its British head trader of manipulating energy futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex.)
A congressional panel endorsed a measure Thursday that would give conditional approval of a civil nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Russia.
Europe´s highest court struck down an Irish law that restricted the free movement of spouses of European Union citizens who aren´t from a country in the 27- nation bloc.
An appeals court Wednesday upheld a ruling ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the water discharged from ships as a way to protect local ecosystems from invasive species.
XM and Sirius to try to settle FCC investigation; companies would pay US Treasury $19 million.
Spanish private television channel Telecinco said Wednesday it had won a lawsuit it filed against YouTube accusing the world´s top video-sharing site of violating its intellectual property rights.
Germany and Iraq have signed a bilateral investment agreement aimed at bolstering business ties between Europe´s largest economy and the oil-rich state.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi thanked Italian lawmakers for granting him immunity from prosecution in a law approved by parliament this week, saying, "You´ve freed me."
France took a step toward ending its decade-long experiment with a 35-hour work week, with lawmakers passing a bill that gives companies greater latitude to extend working hours.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says it is now up to North Korea to accept the terms of a process to verify its declaration of its nuclear activities.
Britain´s leading online service providers are Thursday expected to join a government--backed scheme to tackle the illegal downloading of music and films, despite concerns it could curb the freedoms of Internet users.
In the largest settlement ever for a forest fire, Union Pacific Railroad Co. will pay $102 million for causing the so-called "Storrie Fire" in California´s Plumas and Lassen National Forests in 2000.
The city of Los Angeles announced it will ban all plastic bags from retail stores as of July 1, 2010, following similar anti-pollution regulations already enforced in San Francisco.
President Bush dropped his opposition Wednesday to legislation aiming to calm the chaotic housing market despite his objections to a $3.9 billion provision. The House was expected to vote on the bill Wednesday, and it could become law as early as this week.
The European Commission condemned Bulgaria Wednesday for its failure to tackle corruption and bad management of EU funds and said it has frozen hundreds of millions of euros in aid money.
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