Almost 2,400 people worldwide were executed last year, but most countries moved a step closer toward abolishing the death penalty, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama urged fellow leaders on Tuesday to agree swift action at a G20 summit next week and Britain´s Gordon Brown embarked on a tour seeking international consensus to spur global recovery.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration can’t deny women under 18 years of age access to Barr Pharmaceutical Inc.’s over-the-counter contraceptive known as Plan B, a New York judge said.
A San Francisco lawyer charged earlier this month with helping forge documents in a scheme to obtain the assets of a missing man has now been accused of murder.
More than 100 female prison workers have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections contending that they were routinely sexually harassed by inmates.
Nine death-row inmates in Texas, including six who were executed, lost their appeals because their lawyers missed filing deadlines.
Forthcoming legislation would wrest cybersecurity responsibilities from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and transfer them to the White House, a proposed move that likely will draw objections from industry groups and some conservatives.
U.S. congressional analysts are expected on Friday to forecast even more red ink than expected, a record $1.8 trillion deficit for fiscal 2009, which could complicate President Barack Obama´s efforts to pass his $3.55 trillion budget plan for 2010.
Electronics giant Samsung has appointed a former United Nations ambassador and South Korean trade minister as its president and chief legal officer.
The Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan as the 45th solicitor general of the United States -- and as the first woman ever to hold the position.
The number of U.S. workers drawing state unemployment benefits hit another record high early this month and factory activity in the Mid-Atlantic region shrank again as the economy battles a severe downturn.
A jury in Austria has found Josef Fritzl guilty of raping and imprisoning his daughter for more than two decades and sentenced him to life in prison.
North Korean security officials have detained two Korean-American journalists who were filming across the Tumen River from the Chinese side of the border, South Korean media and diplomatic sources said on Thursday.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he would work to improve consumer protection for credit card users during his tenure in the White House.
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has laid off 54 employees in an effort to reduce its operating budget in the current tough economic climate.
Nintendo said today that a federal court dismissed a lawsuit brought against Nintendo over patents related to the Wii and GameCube game controllers.
Austrian Josef Fritzl, who faces sentencing for imprisoning and raping his daughter for more than two decades, made a final apologetic statement to the court Thursday, but added, "I can´t go back and change it."
Not everything goes better with Coke, it seems. At least that´s the position taken by China´s Ministry of Commerce, which rejected Coca-Cola´s (KO) $2.4 billion dollar bid to acquire the country´s leading pure juice brand, China Huiyuan Juice Group on the grounds it would give the Atlanta-based drinks maker an unfairly dominant position in the market.
The Austrian father accused of locking up his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years and repeatedly raping her has pleaded guilty to all counts, including enslavement and the negligent homicide of one of their seven children.
The storefront accountant who audited Bernard Madoff’s investment advisory business has been arrested and charged with securities violations.
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