Fruit and lolly-flavoured cigarettes used to trick young people into smoking will be banned within the next month.
Russia appears receptive to a closer partnership with the EU as the two enter two days of talks, which are expected to focus on visas, energy security and the financial crisis.
Brazilian local government debt sales fell to a 17-month low in May after Europe’s debt crisis drove up emerging-market borrowing costs.
Luis Bárcenas, the former Popular Party treasurer who is facing corruption charges in the Gürtel political corruption ring, is once again demanding that the opposition PP shell out money for his legal team.
France aims to give a new push to business ties with Africa at a two-day summit opening in the Mediterranean city of Nice.
Israeli naval commandos raided a flotilla carrying thousands of tons of supplies for Gaza in international waters on Monday morning, killing at least 10 people, according to the Israeli military and activists traveling with the flotilla. Some Israeli news reports put the death toll higher.
A Pakistani court ordered the government to lift a ban on Facebook Inc., the world’s No. 1 social networking service, 12 days after it blocked access to the website, according to a lawyer.
Apple is moving iPads as fast it can make them.
The American Bar Association and other legal organizations are urging leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee to resist a provision in a House defense bill that directs the Department of Defense´s inspector general to investigate lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees.
An appeals court in northern Germany has overturned a lower court ruling granting a Muslim student the right to pray in school. The court shared the view of the school that the act was disruptive.
Generic drug manufacturers are not insulated from lawsuits by an FDA approval process that certifies such drugs as the "bioequivalent" of their brand-name predecessors, a federal judge has ruled.
Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas producer, said Friday that it had struck a deal to buy most of the assets of East Resources for $4.7 billion in cash, moving into the coveted sector of natural gas contained in shale deposits.
A goods train rammed into derailed coaches of a passenger express in eastern India, killing at least 75 people in the country’s worst rail disaster in eight years, as officials suspected sabotage by Maoist rebels.
Speaking ahead of a rally to be held in Sydney tomorrow, NSW MP Lee Rhiannon said 57 per cent of Australians believed women had a right to obtain an abortion.
Venezuela will prohibit brokerages from buying and selling government debt in bolivars as part of a new capital markets law to be presented next week, Ricardo Sanguino, president of the congressional finance committee said.
Prudential, the British insurance giant that is seeking to buy the Asian life insurance unit of American International Group, said on Friday that it was talking to the U.S. insurance giant about reducing the $35.5 billion price tag of the transaction in a bid to secure the necessary shareholder support at a vote next month.
A German appeals court decides Thursday on whether a 16-year-old Berlin boy will continue to be allowed space and time to pray in between classes at his public school.
It is welcome, though surprising, that the recent conviction of two boys for attempted rape has provoked a debate over the age of criminal responsibility. Surprising, because calls to raise the legal minimum age of 10 years were not so popularly aired in the recent Doncaster case, where two boys of near-identical age carried out an attack that also had a sexual dimension. Their victims, one of whom was only a year older than the girl in the rape case, were taken to a quiet location where they were beaten with stones and one of them forced to carry out a sex act.
An attorney for a Connecticut smoker says his client has won $8 million in a lawsuit against a tobacco company, the first such jury verdict in New England.
A U.S. judge who awarded damages to holders of defaulted Argentine bonds in a group lawsuit must recalculate those damages to more closely reflect individual losses, an appeals court ruled.
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