The doctor accused of giving Michael Jackson a lethal dose of anaesthetic will be allowed to work in California as he awaits trial, a court has ruled.
Lawmakers in the Swiss lower house today backed a government treaty with the U.S. to disclose account details about UBS AG clients, moving closer to resolving a conflict over suspected tax evasion.
"For the archbishops in Spain, this is a new attack by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero against the Catholic Church."
Barcelona City Hall will pass a decree preventing the use of the Islamic burqa, niqab or any other garment or article that covers a person’s face, such as a ski mask, in the city’s public facilities.
The families of those killed and injured on Bloody Sunday and the soldiers involved are studying Lord Saville´s report on the events.
Lawyers for families of 9/11 victims have taken the unusual legal step of asking a federal appeals court in Manhattan to replace a judge overseeing a group of terrorism-financing lawsuits, saying he is moving too slowly in resolving key motions.
President Obama predicted a wholesale rethink of America’s love affair with oil today, saying he believed the Gulf disaster would have as profound an impact on the American psyche and policy as 9/11.
The Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi is to pay up to £2 billion to victims of Irish terrorism for his role in supplying shiploads of explosives to the IRA.
The debate about the law on self-defence is populated with larger-than-life figures. Most notoriously, there´s Tony Martin, the Norfolk farmer with the shotgun and the booby-trapped stairs, and there´s Munir Hussain, the Asian businessman with the cricket bat, whose family was tied-up and threatened. It may be that the source of the widespread interest in the issue is not a well-grounded fear of what would happen if we confronted an intruder, but the old Tory romance of the Englishman, whose home is his castle. After all, if the expenses scandal taught us anything, it´s that at least one Tory MP did have a moat.
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday the dismissal of a lawsuit by a Canadian man against U.S. government officials for sending him to Syria, where he says he was tortured.
World Cup organizers today ruled out a ban on the vuvuzela horns that have been driving some players and broadcasters mad, with FIFA president Sepp Blatter defending the instrument on Twitter.
Afghanistan has nearly $US1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, far more than previously thought and enough to turn a country devastated by decades of war into one of the most important mining centres in the world, according to senior US officials.
Four suspects linked to a spectacular daytime poker game robbery last March at a luxury Berlin hotel have gone on trial and must answer to charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault.
Tony Blair announced today that Israel would agree to re-open crossings into Gaza for everyday goods within days, bringing to an end its strict three-year crackdown on supplies.
Belgium´s Flemish separatist party, the New Flemish Alliance (NVA), has emerged as the largest force in parliament, with coalition talks set to start.
Portugal Telecom has accused Telefónica of using “intimidating” tactics in its battle to secure control of their Brazilian cellphone joint venture Vivo and has threatened to take legal action.
A former Colombian army officer has been found guilty of the forced disappearance of 11 people in 1985.
Three former Labour MPs and a Tory peer are set to stand trial over expenses fraud allegations after a judge ruled they could not claim parliamentary privilege to stop prosecution.
The Indian government has proposed a new law which will make it easier for couples to get divorced.
Japan is at "risk of collapse" under its huge debt mountain, the country´s new prime minister has said.
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