Microsoft Corp. employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy´s center-right party emerged badly battered after regional elections on Sunday, Interior Ministry figures showed Monday.
Sarkozy´s UMP party took just over a quarter of the vote, putting it in second place behind the Socialist Party, which took 29 percent.
Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States.
Brazil detailed its planned retaliation against the United States over American cotton subsidies on Monday, but said that Washington still had a chance to settle the trade dispute through negotiations.
Consumer prices in China rose 2.7 percent in February over the year-earlier period, according to data released on Thursday, partly attributable to the Lunar New Year holiday but also to rising inflationary pressures in China’s economy.
Early results in Iraq’s parliamentary elections on Thursday indicated that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s coalition was likely to win a plurality in an exceedingly close race, according to Western and Iraqi officials, as a fractured account of the first results and allegations of fraud threw the political process into chaos.
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz v. United States that attorneys are considered debt relief agencies under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) when they provide qualifying services.
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin on Tuesday urged the Obama administration to hold civilian trials for accused 9/11 conspirators, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma ruled Tuesday that a state law imposing broad restrictions on abortion violates the state constitution.
Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna filed a motion with the state Supreme Court Tuesday announcing the adoption of a single-drug execution method.
Apple is suing phone maker HTC and has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, alleging that the Taiwanese company is infringing 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick that a federal law requiring copyright holders to register their works before suing for copyright infringement does not remove federal court jurisdiction if the copyright holder failed to register.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously in Mac´s Shell Service, Inc. v. Shell Oil Products Co. that a service station operator cannot recover for constructive termination under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (PMPA) when the operator continues to run the franchise with the same trademark, fuel, and premises.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in McDonald v. City of Chicago on whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is incorporated as against the states by the Fourteenth Amendment´s Privileges or Immunities or Due Process Clauses.
The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a measure to extend expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act with no new privacy measures.
British insurer Prudential PLC said Monday it will buy the Asian unit of American International Group Inc. in a deal worth $35.5 billion that will allow AIG to pay back some of the money it owes U.S. taxpayers.
Thousands of the nation’s largest water polluters are outside the Clean Water Act’s reach because the Supreme Court has left uncertain which waterways are protected by that law, according to interviews with regulators.
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) briefed lawmakers between 2001 and 2007 on the specifics of enhanced interrogation techniques, according to declassified documents made public by Judicial Watch on Tuesday.
Defense chiefs from Brazil and the United States met in Washington on Tuesday where they discussed efforts to build trust in a region long wary of U.S. motives and a potential arms deal U.S. officials say could deepen ties.
The European Commission has launched a preliminary antitrust inquiry into Google after three companies complained that the US giant´s dominant search engine penalises potential competitors and keeps advertising prices artificially high.
voltar para o topo