Brazil is running out of beer cans and farmers are leaving crops in the field as surging demand and Chinese-like growth leads to shortages in Latin America’s biggest economy.
BP has been accused of “judge shopping” after pushing for a specific judge in Houston, Texas — the centre of America’s oil and gas industry — to handle the lawsuits against it.
A judge in Rwanda has refused bail to a US lawyer charged with denying the 1994 genocide and publishing articles threatening Rwanda´s security.
The lower house of the Swiss Parliament voted Tuesday to reject a deal with the United States to transfer bank data from 4,450 American clients of UBS suspected of tax evasion, calling into question the future of the carefully negotiated agreement.
The cost of doing business in China is going up.
Growing confidence in Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s plan for the biggest stock sale in the Americas is driving its relative borrowing costs down from a record high even as Europe’s debt crisis rattles world markets.
When a saboteur laced Tylenol capsules with cyanide in 1982, killing seven people in the Chicago area, Johnson & Johnson´s quick recall of millions of capsules, free replacement medicines and frequent updates set the standard for public relations in a crisis.
A tourist in Italy who thought she was on to a bargain when she bought a fake Louis Vuitton purse from a beach vendor for €7 (£5.70) has been slapped with a €1,000 fine as part of a draconian summer crackdown on counterfeit goods.
The Supreme Court said Monday it won´t hear arguments that Hillary Rodham Clinton is ineligible to be secretary of state because of an obscure rule about pay increases.
The first same-sex marriage has taken place in Portugal, a month after a law allowing gay marriage came into effect.
More than 25 years after a plume of toxic gas from an American-owned chemical plant wafted over the slumbering city of Bhopal, killing thousands, seven former executives of the company’s Indian subsidiary were convicted of negligence on Monday. The men were sentenced two years in prison and fined 100,000 rupees, or $2,100.
Auckland´s public health service wants courts to have the power to jail dairy owners and other retailers for six months for selling tobacco without approval under a proposed registration system.
Measures are needed to stop brain scans being misused by courts, insurers and employers, experts have warned.
The German government on Monday unveiled the largest package of austerity measures in the country´s history, with deep cuts in social welfare programs and the public sector.
The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge by school districts and teacher unions to the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Australia has launched an advertising campaign to accompany tough new laws on sex tourism.
Grifols, the Spanish health care group that produces treatments based on blood plasma, said Monday that it had agreed to acquire Talecris, a U.S. company, for $4 billion including debt.
Criminal suspects will have to speak up to preserve their right to remain silent in a police interrogation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a decision that critics called a major retreat from the landmark Warren Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona.
Brazil has canceled the sale of its longest fixed-rate local bonds three times in the past month after Europe’s debt crisis eroded demand for less-traded assets.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a school to reinstate a 13-year-old boy who was suspended for wearing rosary beads, pending a hearing into whether the suspension violated his civil rights.
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