Eric Woerth, the French minister at the heart of a political furore surrounding the fortune of L´Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, said today he would step down as treasurer of Nicolas Sarkozy´s party in a move designed to appease critics calling for his resignation from the government.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA is the world´s second-worst performing oil company this year, behind only BP Plc, on concern Brazil´s government will force the producer to pay more than investors originally expected for crude reserves.
A survey of state judges by the American Bar Association indicates that fewer parties in civil cases are being represented by lawyers, and in the opinion of most of the judges, the outcomes of those cases are worse for it.
Itau Unibanco Holding SA overtook Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in Brazilian bond underwriting, leading a push by local banks to grab market share from international banks hurt by the global financial crisis.
Striding through his office complex in Brazil, David Neeleman recounts the various lessons he´s learned in 18 years of starting businesses.
Officials say the rise in population to more than 1.6 billion by 2050 will threaten the country´s rapid economic development.
The government´s decision last week to scrap training grants for would-be legal aid lawyers was as inevitable as it was sad, and was all the more pointed for coming the day after the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) named law firms as the highest-paying graduate employers.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote July 20 on Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, in time for her to be confirmed by early August about two months before the beginning of the next court term.
A leading Chinese Internet regulator has vowed to reduce anonymity in China´s portion of cyberspace, calling for new rules to require people to use their real names when buying a mobile phone or going online, according to a human rights group.
GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay about $460 million to resolve a majority of lawsuits alleging the company´s Avandia diabetes drug can cause heart attacks and strokes, people familiar with the accords said.
Economists´ findings come as states and Congress look for new ways to collect tax on Internet sales.
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has awarded $20,000 to a woman who was fired after telling her employer she had breast cancer.
The lawyer of an Australian man says her client is ready to plead guilty in a Thai court to breaching emergency power laws during protests earlier this year.
Chinese government officials pledged Tuesday to improve regulations on food, particularly dairy products, following last week´s seizure of 64 tons of milk powder containing 500 times the acceptable level of toxic melamine.
As millions of Americans have fallen behind on paying their bills, debt collection law firms have been clogging courtrooms with lawsuits seeking repayment.
The man believed to be the "top boss" of an alleged Italian crime family is among those arrested in a police sweep.
Bank of America Corp. has admitted to maneuvering as much as $10.7 billion in debt from its balance sheet and then back again through repurchasing deals that the bank called "dollar rolls."
The 2011 calendar features four women MPs from the Public Affairs party wearing little in the way of clothing in a series of images that dispatch the traditional image of staid and serious parliamentarians.
France´s lower house of parliament has approved a ban on Islamic veils, a move that is popular among French voters despite the serious concerns of Muslim groups and human rights advocates.
A U.S. appeals court rejected airlines´ challenge to a regulation letting airport operators charge more at busy times of the day to reduce delays.
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