Voters in the southern German state of Bavaria on Sunday voted for Germany´s strongest smoking ban, meaning lighting up in bars, restaurants and beer tents at Munich´s famous Oktoberfest will be "verboten."
Dunga is out as coach of Brazil’s national soccer team.
Rebuffing the American government´s appeals for leniency, a Beijing court on Monday sentenced a naturalized American citizen to eight years in prison on charges that his purchase of a database on China´s oil industry broke state secrecy laws.
Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA, Brazil’s biggest phone company, gained on speculation it will be taken over by Portugal Telecom SGPS SA as that company seeks to maintain a foothold in Latin America’s biggest economy.
An interview with the Prime Minister of Portugal José Sócrates, by El País about the decision to block the sale of Vivo to Spain’s Telefónica.
California lawmakers have approved a $20-million US settlement with the family of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a girl and held captive for 18 years by a paroled sex offender.
President Obama pressed Congress on Thursday to pass comprehensive immigration legislation to fix a “fundamentally broken” system by toughening enforcement of existing laws while creating a path to citizenship for many of the 11 million people in the United States illegally.
Kenyan politicians were accused today of plundering state coffers after awarding themselves a monthly pay rise of nearly 25%, making them some of the best-paid legislators in the world.
A New York judicial ethics committee has given state judges the freedom to play in bands for money or sell their artworks - as long as it doesn´t interfere with their day jobs.
LLX Logistica SA, the company building Brazil’s largest port, said Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Mercuria Energy Asset Management BV may build storage facilities at the $40 billion project to tap into growing offshore oil output.
The European Union’s second-highest court upheld a ruling that AstraZeneca Plc misled patent officials and flouted antitrust rules to keep a generic competitor off the market, while reducing the associated fine against the company.
A federal judge has ruled that a Pennsylvania law banning blasphemy from the names of corporations is unconstitutional.
The American Bar Association on Thursday denounced Arizona´s strict new immigration law as racist and unconstitutional as they joined a lawsuit seeking to derail implementation of the measure that is set to take effect at the end of this month.
The man once dubbed Dr Death was convicted on Tuesday of the manslaughter of Mervyn Morris, Gerardus Kemps and James Phillips.
While the United States and Europe fret over huge deficits and threats to a fragile recovery, this region has a surprise in store. Latin America, beset in the past by debt defaults, currency devaluations and the need for bailouts from rich countries, is experiencing robust economic growth that is the envy of its northern counterparts.
The House on Wednesday adopted legislation to revamp the nation’s financial regulatory system, voting mostly along party lines as partisan acrimony impeded cooperation even on the shared goals of averting future economic crises.
Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen.
The Constitutional Court yesterday admitted an appeal by the Popular Party (PP) — on the grounds of unconstitutionality — against the Abortion Law, which is due to come into effect on July 5.
The British government is subsidising one of the world´s largest and riskiest oil-drilling projects in the Atlantic Ocean and would be liable for tens of millions of pounds if a major accident took place.
Drugmaker Merck & Co. on Tuesday won the first trial over withdrawn painkiller Vioxx brought by a state trying to recoup what it paid for residents to take the drug, arguing it wouldn´t have been covered had its risks been better known.
voltar para o topo