Judges in Sicily today handed down a verdict that effectively cleared the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, of accusations his entry into politics had been sponsored by the Mafia.
After four years of debate and speculation, the Constitutional Court ruled on Monday that Catalonia can keep most of its self-governing statute, which was approved in a referendum by voters in 2006.
The high-profile case of German pop singer Nadja Benaissa, who was charged with aggravated assault for having unprotected sex while she knew she was HIV positive, has ended in a two-year suspended sentence.
The number of skilled workers allowed into the UK from outside the EU is to be cut, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.
Iceland’s prime minister has married her partner under a new law legalising same-sex marriage in the country.
China has set the exchange rate for the yuan at its highest level in five years, after previously saying it would make the currency more flexible.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be the center of Washington´s attention this week at her confirmation hearings to become the 112th Supreme Court Justice.
Barack Obama has welcomed the commitment from the G20 group of developed and developing nations to halve budget deficits by 2013.
The Constitutional Court is said to be prepared to hand down its long-awaited ruling on the legality of Catalonia’s autonomy statute. The court will reconvene today for what is expected to be its final session before voting on the region’s autonomous governing laws, passed in 2006 but which are being challenged by the Popular Party.
Canada and India signed off on a deal that will see Canadian uranium exported to India as part of a wide-ranging pledge to increase trade, in spite of long-standing concerns regarding India’s nuclear weapons program.
Sen. Robert Byrd, who rose from West Virginia´s impoverished hollows to aid, counsel and sometimes chastise presidents from the Senate seat he occupied for more than a half-century, died early Monday morning. He was 92 and had served in Congress longer than anyone in the nation´s history.
Do Spain’s judges breathe the same air as the rest of us; do they think, feel, and suffer like mere mortals, or are they are an inbred, inward-looking class that has lost all contact with reality?
An unlikely trio of tycoons is set to take over the prestigious French newspaper Le Monde after a rival consortium said it was pulling out.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega embarks on a new legal battle Monday when he goes to trial in Paris, accused of using French bank accounts to launder kickbacks from a Colombian cocaine cartel in the late 1980s.
The U.S. Supreme Court´s ruling in the criminal case against Enron CEO Jeff Skilling yesterday addressed two crucial and frequently recurring controversies that come up in white-collar criminal cases: What is the precise meaning of the federal statute that criminalizes schemes to defraud someone out of "the intangible right to honest services."
A Kansas doctor and his wife have been found guilty on conspiracy and illegal prescriptions charges contributing to the fatal overdoses of 68 patients by over-prescribing pain medication.
Public disclosure of the names and addresses of signers of referendum petitions does not violate the First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
The Obama administration´s efforts to suspend deepwater oil drilling were dealt another setback in court on Thursday when the federal judge who struck down the administration´s six-month moratorium refused to delay the decision´s effects.
Nearly two years after the American financial system teetered on the verge of collapse, Congressional negotiators reached agreement early Friday morning to reconcile competing versions of the biggest overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression.
A federal appeals court has ruled that New York State must comply with a lower court’s order to begin immediately transferring thousands of people with mental illness in New York City out of large, institutional group homes and into their own homes and apartments, where they will continue to receive specialized treatment and services.
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