The revolving door leading into the office of the prime minister of Japan has turned again, for the fourth time in as many years.
Yet laws have had to be passed making it an offence to attack New South Wales ambulance officers on the job.
Australia is asking an international court to weigh in on Japan´s whale-hunting practices, officials said Tuesday.
Switzerland´s highest court banned private poker tournaments, arguing that luck rather than skill was the key ingredient in the card game.
Justice Department lawyers are investigating the origins of the rig explosion and whether BP and Transocean Ltd. violated federal statutes. A new plan to stop the flow proceeds.
Twelve people have been killed and another 25 are in hospital after a gunman drove across Cumbria shooting victims in several different locations, before taking his own life.
UK insurer Prudential has scrapped plans to buy AIA, the Asian business of US insurer AIG.
For the first time in Spain, a new piece of legislation establishes shared custody as the preferred option in separation and divorce cases in which parents cannot reach a prior agreement. The new law is not national in scope, as it was approved by the regional parliament of Aragon, but it is being interpreted as a sign of things to come for the country as a whole.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) yesterday banned Spain’s Alejandro Valverde from cycling competitively for two years after upholding an appeal by theWorld Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Cycling Union (UCI). Valverde had previously been banned from competing in Italy for the same length of time for his alleged involvement in the Operation Puerto doping scandal, which came to light following a Civil Guard investigation in 2006.
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it would cut about 9,000 jobs and take $1 billion in charges over several years as it creates fully automated commercial data centers.
Iraq´s supreme court has ratified the results of the March election, officially ruling that Iyad Allawi´s Iraqiyya party won by a narrow margin.
Three judges have been shot dead at a court in China´s southern Hunan province by a man armed with a submachine gun, reports say.
Under pressure from Congress, the Federal Trade Commission has agreed to postpone enforcement of its "Red Flags" rule that requires lawyers, doctors and other professionals to develop written identity theft prevention programs.
Never before in Germany´s history has a president resigned. But the country´s constitution has clear guidelines on what happens next - and a power vacuum is not in sight.
China is failing to carry out its pledges to liberalize its economy and open its markets to foreign companies, said the European Union, which accused the Asian nation of protectionism to prop up its domestic industry.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has forced governments to alter their behaviour in the eight years of its existence, the UN chief has said.
Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the global financial crisis, said the Brazilian, Chinese and Indian economies may be overheating and developing asset bubbles.
Thailand´s Prime Minister has been accused of violating human rights by ordering a deadly army crackdown on opposition protesters, during a heated no-confidence debate in parliament.
Colombia is set for a run-off vote after former defence minister Juan Manuel Santos fell just short of victory in Sunday´s presidential poll.
The government is moving swiftly to change the law on universal jurisdiction to abolish the ability to bring private prosecutions for international crimes in the UK.
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