The coalition government is now facing an important test of its civil liberties´ commitments, as the European court of human rights today, after three years, again temporarily froze four men´s extradition to the United States to face terrorism charges.
The patriarch of one of Spain’s richest families is under a High Court investigation for alleged tax fraud that could surpass some 400 million euro, sources have told EL PAÍS. The court has nearly completed its inquiry into Demetrio Carceller Sr., owner of the Catalan beer company Damm, the sources said.
Euro MPs have approved a new deal to allow US anti-terror investigators to access Europeans´ bank data.
Telefónica of Spain´s attempt to buy full control of a Brazilian wireless joint venture it holds with Portugal Telecom received a significant boost Thursday when Europe´s highest court ruled that the Portuguese government had used an illegal method to block the deal.
In honor of a New York City woman suing her college because she can´t find a job, TIME reviews the most ridiculous lawsuits ever filed, settled or dismissed.
The European Union´s antitrust chief said he is looking "very carefully" at allegations that Google Inc unfairly demotes rivals´ sites in search results.
The Obama administration has asked a federal court in Louisiana to reinstate the ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the moratorium was a rational response to an unprecedented emergency presented by the BP oil spill.
Panama´s former military ruler Manuel Noriega on charges of laundering drug money, sentencing him to seven years in jail.
Facing a decision on a proposed pipeline to bring Canadian crude oil to the United States, the Obama administration is confronting growing resistance from politicians who oppose the project or, at the very least, urge further study before approval.
A judge in Brazil has ordered the arrest of one of the country´s top footballers in connection with the disappearance of his ex-mistress.
Wal-Mart Stores has spent a year and more than a million dollars in legal fees battling a $7,000 fine that federal safety officials assessed after shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death at a store on Long Island on the day after Thanksgiving in 2008.
China has executed the top justice official in the city of Chongqing as part of a crackdown on corruption.
The federal government hopes to introduce legislation to enable its controversial internet filter by the end of the year.
Acting under federal court order, the Obama administration proposed new air-quality rules on Tuesday for coal-burning power plants that officials said would bring major reductions in soot and smog from Texas to the Eastern Seaboard.
When two French cabinet ministers resigned on Sunday night, it seemed the logical response to public outrage over the news that the two men had been living the high life using taxpayer´s money.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced plans to create a refugee processing centre in East Timor.
Brazil, the world´s leading ethanol exporter, will help Kenya produce biodiesel and improve its agriculture sector, the two nations´ leaders said Tuesday.
A Victorian tribunal will be asked to decide if a Christian group can discriminate against gay people for religious reasons.
A California jury is pondering its final answer in a six-year $270m (£178m) court wrangle brought by the British TV production company Celador, which claims it was short-changed by Disney out of a fair share of profits from the US version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
The Justice Department could file a lawsuit challenging Arizona´s immigration law as early as Tuesday, an official tells Fox News.
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