The following companies may have unusual price changes today in Latin American trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and share prices reflect the previous close.
Human genetic information must be kept in the public domain to allow researchers to analyse it and to give members of the public fair access to medical treatments, the Nobel prizewinning scientist who led the British contribution to the Human Genome Project said today.
Germany´s Federal Court of Justice has ruled that assisted suicide is legal in certain cases. The ruling is based on a case involving a terminally-ill coma patient whose daughter attempted to cut her feeding tube.
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In a major victory for Google in its battle with media companies, a federal judge in New York on Wednesday threw out Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google´s YouTube, the No. 1 Internet video-sharing site.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said the plan to demolish Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem to make way for a tourist park is illegal and unhelpful.
Philadelphia Newspapers LLC will seek bankruptcy court approval for its reorganization plan while the group buying its Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News dailies for $139 million continues contract talks with unions.
Amid growing concern over the safety of CT scans, some experts say Congress should give the Food and Drug Administration power to ensure that patients aren´t exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation.
China on Thursday rejected the latest U.S. accusation that its currency is undervalued, saying a stronger yuan will not ease America´s yawning trade deficit as officials prepared to face off on the issue at the G20 summit in Canada this weekend.
Chiefs number eight Sione Lauaki has lost a lucrative Japanese rugby contract because he was facing an assault charge.
President Alan Garcia of Peru has refused to sign a law that would give indigenous people more power to stop oil and mining projects on their lands.
Jerome Kerviel should serve four years in prison for his role in Societe Generale SA’s 4.9 billion-euro ($6 billion) loss, French prosecutor Jean-Michel Aldebert said in his closing arguments to judges in Paris.
Julia Gillard has become Australia´s first woman prime minister after Kevin Rudd stepped down to avoid a Labor party caucus vote.
A special court to try suspected pirates has opened in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, funded by international donors.
The judge and lawyers for the parties in the litigation pushed hard to persuade World Trade Center rescue and cleanup workers exposed to allegedly toxic dust at the site to accept a settlement that could run as high as $716 million.
As anticipated the government has announced its review of legal aid. The announcement was made in a written ministerial statement to Parliament yesterday by secretary of state for justice Kenneth Clarke.
The controversy surrounding the use of full Islamic coverings for women — namely the burqa and the niqab — took another twist yesterday, when the Senate approved a motion urging the government to carry out the “legal reforms necessary” to ensure that the garments are not worn in public, except at events of a strictly religious nature.
Societe Generale SA asked a French court to order Jerome Kerviel to pay it the 4.9 billion euros ($6 billion) the bank lost in January 2008 unwinding 50 billion euros in unauthorized positions the former trader had taken.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said the government would also consult on axing 54 County Courts.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Latin America’s biggest company by market value, fell to the lowest in four weeks after delaying the sale of as much as $25 billion of stock until September because a price hasn’t been set in a related deal to buy oil reserves from the government.
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