Appeal court corrects miscarriage of justice as new DNA evidence quashes Sean Hodgson´s conviction for rape and murder of barmaid Teresa de Simone in 1979.
With much fanfare last September, Coca-Cola (KO) announced plans to buy China Huiyuan Juice Group for $2.4 billion, the largest acquisition ever of a Chinese company by a foreign corporation. Coke promptly filed for approval of the deal with antitrust regulators at China´s Commerce Ministry. Some six months later—and with Coke´s bid set to expire on Mar. 23—approval has yet to be granted.
A survey, carried out by information specialist Experian Background Checking, has found that organised criminals are copying CV’s posted on the internet to gain jobs where that can commit fraud. By using cloned career histories the criminals trick recruiters into hiring them.
San Francisco lawyers rescued Wal-Mart and a group of pet food manufacturers on Monday from a class action that could have led to millions of dollars in damages.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a radio interview Sunday that the German government must more strictly enforce its gun-control laws.
Elisabeth Fritzl, who was imprisoned in a cellar for decades by her father and gave birth to seven of his children, is expected to continue giving evidence against him Tuesday at his trial in Austria.
In response to a Government investigation, 9 modelling and entertainment agencies in London have been issued with warnings for failing to comply with the law.
More than $100 million in real estate, cash, bonds, art, autos, boats and other property owned by Bernard Madoff and his wife, Ruth Madoff, is subject to forfeiture, prosecutors said.
An arrest warrant for actress Lindsay Lohan was quashed on Monday after a Beverly Hills judge ruled she had not violated her probation for a 2007 drunken driving conviction.
Jurors aren´t supposed to discuss the cases they hear outside the jury deliberation room. But what happens when they post comments on social networking sites?
Louis Vuitton told the European Union’s highest court that Google Inc. doesn’t have the right to sell trademark-protected names to advertisers that trigger "sponsored links" when the name is used in an Internet search.
Oil prices fell to near $44 a barrel in Asia on Monday after OPEC decided not to cut production levels at its meeting over the weekend in Vienna.
Ford Motor Co. will invest euro200 million ($260 million) in its plant in the German city of Cologne, an official said Monday.
The investments would help secure jobs and get the company through the current economic crisis, North-Rhine Westfalia Minister President Juergen Ruettgers said.
Investors in R. Allen Stanford’s Antiguan bank may have to get in line behind the Internal Revenue Service as they seek to recover money from the alleged swindler.
Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 vowed to work together to clean up the toxic assets that helped trigger the financial crisis and led banks to rack up more than $1 trillion in losses.
A portrait of a troubled, depressed teenager with easy access to an unsecured pistol began to emerge Thursday, a day after the youth went on a rampage, killing 15 people before taking his own life.
Anna Nicole Smith´s boyfriend and two of her doctors were charged with repeatedly supplying the former Playboy centerfold with addictive prescription drugs since 2004, nearly three years before she died of an overdose, authorities said.
A man dressed as Batman villain the Joker has been shot dead by police in America after pointing a loaded shotgun at them.
A top U.S. lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday said he is working to develop a bill to impose mandatory guidelines on Internet companies to protect user privacy, because the current voluntary approach is falling short.
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