In a diplomatic setback, the U.S. fails to win unanimous support for latest round of sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council. Turkey and Brazil voted against the measures meant to punish Iran for its nuclear program, and Lebanon abstained.
The coalition government´s decision to hold an inquiry into the UK´s involvement in torture and rendition was today hailed by the Council of Europe as "a proper response" which could offer an example to other nations.
Ministers are bringing forward to the autumn measures requiring many immigrants marrying UK citizens to prove they have a command of English.
Banco Santander, the largest Spanish lender, said Wednesday that it would buy Bank of America’s 24.9 percent stake in Santander’s Mexican arm for $2.5 billion, giving it almost total ownership of the unit.
The head of Madrid’s immigration department has accused the Interior Ministry of ordering “a police persecution” of immigrants based “not on the existence of a crime, but on skin color.”
It is a call you would expect from Fidel Castro or Hugo Chávez: soak Latin America´s rich to help the poor and build a fairer society. "In many places it is a simple fact that the wealthy do not pay their fair share. We can´t mince words about this."
Government lawyers have warned high court judges that last-minute legal challenges should not be allowed to "disrupt or delay" a deportation flight to Baghdad due to leave Britain early tomorrow.
Two judges and four other court officials have been injured in an acid attack sparked by a loan dispute in southern China, state media reports.
Facing questions about whether a high-ranking prosecutor´s actions during a murder investigation and trial constituted misconduct, the Brooklyn district attorney´s office agreed on Tuesday to allow a man imprisoned in that case to have his murder conviction vacated and his record cleared with the assurance that he will not be retried.
General Motors Co. said Tuesday it is recalling nearly 100,000 vehicles in Canada, part of a much larger recall of more than 1.5 million cars worldwide, because a washer fluid heater system could overheat and cause a fire, its second recall over the issue in two years.
The Spanish Supreme Court has confirmed the conviction of the Catalan actor Pepe Rubianes, who died in March 2009, for slandering the mayor of Salamanca, Julián Lanzarote, of the Popular Party (PP), in a ruling released last Wednesday.
More than 600 people have this year sought orders at the Children´s Court against children including cyber bullies, stalkers and schoolyard thugs.
An Edinburgh woman who put methadone on a baby´s dummy to stop him crying has been jailed for three years.
A federal judge on Monday denied the state of Alaska´s request for a preliminary injunction to kill wolves, a step it said was needed to protect a caribou herd on an island in the Aleutian chain that is a subsistence food source for rural Alaskans there.
Brazil’s economy grew at its fastest annual rate since 1995 in the first quarter, sending the real and bond yields higher and cementing expectations that the central bank will raise interest rates by at least 0.75 percentage point tomorrow to prevent overheating.
A law on obligatory chemical castration for paedophiles convicted of rape and perpetrators of incest, passed in parliament last September, came into effect tonight in Poland.
Vodafone Group Plc, Telefonica SA’s O2 and other mobile-phone companies lost a challenge at the European Union’s highest court to legislation that forced them to cut international roaming rates.
The alleged "rogue trader" blamed by French bank Societe Generale for 4.9bn euros (then worth £4.3bn) in losses has gone on trial in Paris.
Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran convened at a security summit meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States just days before a scheduled American-backed debate in the United Nations Security Council on imposing tighter sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program.
Emirates and Airbus announced Tuesday that the Middle Eastern airline is ordering an additional 32 Airbus super-jumbo planes worth $11.5 billion.
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