British American Tobacco Plc, Europe’s largest cigarette maker, won a U.K. court ruling in a tax case that the company said may allow it to recover as much as 1.2 billion pounds ($1.9 billion). Other companies may also benefit.
As it has done for more than 40 years, the Village Voice picks a NYC honor roll each Thanksgiving to pay homage to those who work in the trenches, going about the "tough, everyday work of remedying inequality" and honoring "those who have stood tall against abuses of power."
General Motors Corp, whose chief executive was blasted last week by U.S. lawmakers for flying on a private jet to ask for public funds, has asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to prevent public tracking of a jet it leases.
The Federal Reserve and the Treasury announced $800 billion in new lending programs on Tuesday, sending a message that they would print as much money as needed to revive the nation’s crippled banking system.
A list of job cuts, shuttered factories, canceled bonuses and commitments to fuel-efficient cars won´t be enough next week when U.S. automakers get another shot to persuade Congress to give them $25 billion in loans.
An international group of securities regulators, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, agreed Monday to begin work on a coordinated response to several aspects of the global financial crisis.
Oprah Winfrey wants a court to dismiss or order arbitration in a defamation lawsuit filed by the ex-headmistress of her girls school in South Africa.
A lawsuit can continue against the Vatican alleging that top church officials should have warned the public or authorities of known or suspected sexual abuse of children by priests in the Archdiocese of Louisville, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
The people of Greenland have voted decisively in favour of a plan to give it greater autonomy from Denmark.
Ruling means that Martin Gill, 47, and his male partner can adopt two brothers, ages 4 and 8, whom he has cared for as foster children since December 2004. Judge Cindy Lederman, Miami-Dade Co. Juvenile Division (inset).
(ABC)A judge on Tuesday ruled that a strict Florida law that blocks gay people from adopting children is unconstitutional, declaring there was no legal or scientific reason for sexual orientation alone to prohibit anyone from adopting.
The co-chair of the Connecticut legislature´s judiciary committee is seeking a full review of claims that a judge arrested on drunken driving charges hurled racial epithets and used her judicial status to intimidate officers.
President-elect Barack Obama takes his first major step toward addressing the U.S. financial crisis on Monday, presenting the team that will steer his economic policies and navigate a potentially deep recession.
When criminal defense lawyers face criticism for representing the "bad guys," they respond with a familiar refrain: Defending unpopular clients amounts to defending the constitutional right to representation and the presumption of innocence.
Federal regulators approved a radical plan to stabilize Citigroup in an arrangement in which the government could soak up billions of dollars in losses at the struggling bank, the government announced late Sunday night.
A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of New Hampshire´s first-in-the-nation law making doctors´ prescription writing habits confidential.
The United States has opened a Food and Drug Administration office in Beijing, as the first step in an FDA strategy to try to improve food and drug safety standards around the world. The moves comes one week after the United States placed a temporary ban on dairy products imported from China, which is still recovering from a scandal involving tainted milk. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing.
Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao signed several trade and investment agreements with Communist Cuba during his historic visit to the island nation, which aims to further boost ties between the two allies.
The Environmental Protection Agency is completing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, despite the fact that half of the EPA´s 10 regional administrators have formally dissented from the decision and another four have criticized the move in writing.
A proposal to extend the Russian president´s term by two years moved closer to becoming law on Wednesday when the lower house of parliament approved it on its penultimate reading.
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