A landmark ruling that legalized gay sex between consenting partners in India was challenged Thursday in the country´s high court, lawyers said.
Bernard Madoff has decided not to appeal the 150-year prison sentence he received for operating the biggest investment fraud in history.
The UK House of Lords [official website] on Tuesday rejected a proposed amendment [press release] that would have barred the prosecution of those who go abroad to help others commit assisted suicide.
The Massachusetts attorney general, Martha Coakley, sued the federal government Wednesday to overturn a section of the law denying federal benefits to spouses in same-sex marriages.
The Commons culture select committee confirmed today that it will launch an urgent investigation into allegations of phone hacking by News of the World journalists, after new revelations by the Guardian about the extent of the practice.
Leaders of the world´s leading industrialized nations are meeting with representatives of up-and-coming economies to tackle global warming at an economic summit Thursday in Italy.
A wave of cyberattacks aimed at 27 American and South Korean government agencies and commercial Web sites temporarily jammed more than a third of them over the past five days, and several sites in South Korea came under renewed attack on Thursday.
Websites of government agencies, including those responsible for fighting cyber crime, were targeted in a cyber attack that began on July 4.
Ruth Madoff, the wife of imprisoned fraudster Bernard Madoff, will get her passport back, after U.S. District Judge Denny Chin Monday authorized U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services officials to return it, court documents showed.
In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser.
A strong Russia is good for the United States, President Obama said in a speech in Moscow, where he is visiting in an effort to "reset" the countries´ relations.
The worst of the recession is over, but recovery is not guaranteed, the British Chambers of Commerce said Tuesday.
Former cabinet ministers, senior lawyers and a prominent campaigner for older people will today try to lift the threat of imprisonment hanging over relatives accompanying loved ones who go abroad to kill themselves.
Lawyers for the Recording Industry Association of America want a federal judge to bar Jammie Thomas-Rasset—who was ordered last month to pay $1.92 million in damages for sharing 24 music files online—from downloading music and to destroy all of the music files she has downloaded.
Former INTERPOL [official website] president and South African police chief Jackie Selebi [official profile; JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty [plea explanation, PDF] to corruption charges Monday at the start of his trial in the Johannesburg High Court. Selebi is charged [JURIST report] with receiving $170,000 in bribes from convicted drug smuggler Glenn Agliotti [Guardian profile], who was suspected of killing South African mining magnate Brett Kebble. Selebi claims that charges against him were fabricated in retaliation for his corruption investigation of two members of the South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) [official website], including Vusi Pikoli. Then-president Kgalema Motlanthe fired Pikoli from the NPA in part for his decision to prosecute Selebi. The government denied [Eyewitness News report] Selebi´s allegations and announced [Independent report] that it will call several witnesses against Selebi, including Agliotti. The trial is expected to last about five weeks.
Ahead of his departure for Moscow on Sunday night for a visit aimed at repairing strained relations with Russia, President Obama vowed not to sacrifice American support for greater freedom here and questioned the politically charged prosecution of a prominent Russian businessman.
The Group of Eight nations should not presume a global economic recovery is near, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in a letter to G8 host Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi obtained by Reuters on Monday.
Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya said he was denied permission to land at Tegucigalpa´s airport Sunday evening after a deadly clash between Zelaya´s supporters and government troops.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling promised more powers for the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority to prevent a repeat of the crisis that plunged Britain into its worst recession in a generation.
A pending settlement between Google Inc. and groups representing authors and publishers could violate antitrust law, the U.S. Department of Justice says in a letter to the federal judge in the Southern District of New York who is overseeing the case.
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