Developed nations pledged more than $4 billion Thursday to finance a program meant to help poor countries protect their forests and slow global warming.
The conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and three other men pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to a misdemeanor in a scheme in which they posed as telephone repairmen in Senator Mary L. Landrieu’s New Orleans office.
Yahoo! Inc., IAC/InterActiveCorp, EBay Inc. and Facebook Inc. urged a judge to dismiss Viacom Inc.’s copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.’s YouTube video-sharing website.
Apple has pushed past arch-rival Microsoft to become the world´s biggest technology company.
The Spanish parliament has backed a 15bn-euro ($18.4bn; £13bn) austerity package by one vote as the country strives to cut its budget deficit.
Canada is losing hundreds of thousands of visitors from Mexico because of visa requirements imposed by the Harper government to curb refugee claims, Mexican President Felipe Calderon told the House of Commons on Thursday.
Metal prices have made spectacular rebounds since the start of the year on growing optimism about the world economy. It´s not even midway through 2010 and Caterpillar (CAT, Fortune 500) has sold out of some of its largest mining vehicles because of rising commodity prices, and is now taking orders for 2011 delivery.
Equity markets rose Thursday in Europe and Asia after the Chinese authorities said Europe would remain one of their most important markets for investment.
Speaking at the company´s Melbourne annual general meeting yesterday, Mr Albanese said Rio was cautious about the near-term outlook because the global economy remained volatile and uncertain.
Firms are charging different hourly rates to different clients for doing similar work, according to an analysis of more than $4 billion in law firm billings that will be released in September.
A judge in the US state of Minnesota has ordered a former nurse accused of encouraging suicide on the internet to stay offline.
The U.S. Justice Department is making preliminary inquiries into Apple Inc.’s business practices regarding its iTunes digital music service, two people familiar with the matter said.
Éric Besson, the French immigration minister, has agreed to travel to the office of Europe’s highest human rights official to discuss the migrant situation in France and on the Continent.
An ASB Bank adviser, who stole millions of dollars from his employer, has been ordered to pay back most of his ill-gotten gains.
The oil disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico could present BP with much higher costs than previously thought as a result of US government penalties of up to $60bn (£40bn), according to City analysts.
Willie Walsh, British Airways´ chief executive, is planning to escalate the dispute with Unite by going to court again in an attempt to block the latest wave of strikes which began this week, the Guardian has learned.
A provision tucked into a defense bill before Congress would direct the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate any suspected misconduct by lawyers for Guantánamo Bay detainees, opening a new chapter in a recurrent political controversy over legal ethics and the representation of terrorism suspects.
One of the most thankless jobs in the legal world must be championing public legal education (PLE). The embodiment of motherhood and apple pie, nobody can argue with the notion that people should have the know-how to manage the law in their everyday lives, but it is one of the most marginal of issues.
The Washington Mutual Chapter 11 case has been contentious from the start, complete with accusations of sabotage. So it´s fitting that a global settlement that would pave the way for resolving the mess seems to be perpetually out of reach.
The coalition government´s plans for early action to tackle Britain´s record peacetime budget deficit were given strong backing by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development today.
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