The Senate on Thursday defeated a Republican-led effort to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from curbing greenhouse gases as lawmakers road-tested arguments for a future fight over climate change legislation.
Taiwan´s High Court has rejected an appeal by former President Chen Shui-bian against his corruption conviction.
The Justice Department has decided that federal prosecutors should enforce criminal provisions in the Violence Against Women Act in cases involving gay and lesbian relationships, a newly disclosed memorandum shows.
A UN tribunal has convicted two Bosnian Serbs for committing genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and sentenced them to life in prison.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, won Senate approval to buy 5 billion barrels of government-owned oil with new stock, paving the way for the Western Hemisphere’s largest share sale in more than a decade.
Bail hearings should not be open to the media to report details, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs is being sued for more than $1 billion by an Australian hedge fund that has accused the bank of fraud by selling it "shitty" complex US mortgage products that led to its collapse.
Prosecutors are asking for a 12-year jail sentence for the captain of the Prestige tanker, which dumped some 77,000 tons of oil on the Galician coast in 2002, causing Spain’s worst-ever environmental disaster.
There seems to be little doubt that unemployment is going to remain stubbornly high -- quite possibly for years to come. There´s also mounting evidence that a good part of that unemployment is really structural in nature: The skills and capabilities of many experienced workers are simply no longer demanded by the market.
Tens of thousands of people have been stopped in the street and searched unlawfully under controversial section 44 anti-terrorism powers, the Home Office has revealed.
TheWorld Bank saidWednesday that Spain’s economic situation was “very serious” but added that the fiscal austerity measures adopted by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s government were steps “in the right direction.”
Google is "almost certain" to face prosecution for collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks, according to Privacy International (PI).
In a new turn for the congressional response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, legislation introduced Wednesday would mandate restitution for victims of some environmental crimes.
Egypt, the biggest Arab consumer of cigarettes, is beginning an attempt to ban smoking in public places.
A panel of federal judges ruled Wednesday that New York City can keep secret about 1,800 pages of records detailing the Police Department’s surveillance and tactical strategy in advance of protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Germany´s highest constitutional court rejected a lawmaker´s request for an emergency order to block the nation from participating in the euro-area rescue fund.
Scott Rothstein, a one-time run-of-the-mill labor and employment attorney turned larger-than-life power broker, was sentenced today to 50 years in federal prison for engineering one of Florida´s biggest investment scams.
Article wrote by Robert Heslett, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, published by The Guardian.
General Motors will have to rehabilitate its struggling German subsidiary Opel on its own. The German government has turned down the American automaker´s application for 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in state loan guarantees, according to Rainer Bruederle, Germany´s economics minister.
Leading Spanish builder ACShas filed a suit against a decision by the annual general shareholders’ meeting of Iberdrola denying it representation on the board of the country’s biggest power group.
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