Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, was ordered by a federal jury to pay $200 million to a Canadian company over a patented way to process electronic documents in Microsoft’s Word products.
An Egyptian business tycoon and a former police officer have been found guilty of the July slaying of rising Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim.
A judge who ordered a 13-year-old teen to receive chemotherapy has now issued an arrest warrant for the mother after she and the boy disappeared.
Statutory instruments greatly increase the power of the executive and allow ministers to avoid public and critical scrutiny.
The Bolivian Supreme Court of Justice on Monday opened the trial of former president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in connection with the deaths of 63 anti-government protesters in October 2003.
U.S. banks have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to cyberthieves who have electronically broken into ATMs and forged electronic transfers, a top FBI agent said on Tuesday.
The United Nations is trying to harness donations from individuals for its aid programmes that stand to attract less government money because of the economic downturn, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
Home Office ministers tonight defended changes to legislation to criminalise men who pay for sex with women who are forced into prostitution.
A former and a current partner at the London offices of two U.S. law firms face insider-trading charges next month brought by the U.K. Financial Services Authority, according to court documents.
The US House of Representatives on Monday approved the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, which creates a commission to investigate the cause of recent economic turmoil and allocates more resources for federal prosecutors to pursue financial fraud cases.
U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at climate-warming greenhouse gases on Tuesday and obliged the struggling auto industry to make more efficient cars by imposing tough national standards to cut emissions and increase gas mileage.
The most senior official in Britain´s lower house of parliament apologised to the nation on Monday for an expenses scandal among lawmakers that has prompted growing calls for an early general election.
At least eight investors and friends of Bernard Madoff are reportedly under a criminal investigation that seeks to learn whether they knew their high investment returns were part of a fraud.
The federal government appears to be everywhere when it comes to the economy.
Chrysler LLC’s dealers asked a bankruptcy judge to let them claim legal protections they lost when the automaker filed for Chapter 11.
Unable to stop the tide of foreclosures and job losses, lawmakers are hoping to give voters at least some breathing room in the economic downturn by banning arbitrary credit card rate hikes and excessive fees.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to name former U.S. President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to Haiti, U.N. officials said on Monday, in a move that could attract investment in the Western Hemisphere´s poorest nation and help stabilize the country.
The US Supreme Court Monday ruled 7-2 in AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen that companies do not violate the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) by failing to award employees credit for maternity leave taken before the act´s effective date.
The Climate Camp went to the European Climate Exchange in Bishopsgate on 1 April to highlight the failure of carbon trading as a solution to climate change.
India´s Congress party was expected to appoint key reformers to the new cabinet as financial markets soared on Monday on hopes its sweeping election win would herald a strong coalition government.
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