Gov. David A. Paterson will sign legislation prohibiting the New York Police Department from electronically storing the names and addresses of people stopped on the streets but found to have done nothing wrong, several people with knowledge of the governor’s intentions said Thursday.
Indonesia´s Supreme Court has reversed a decision to return $1.23 trillion rupiah ($153.3 million) which had been seized from a company run by the youngest son of late military strongman Suharto, a judge said today.
Its name may be synonymous with European unity - but increasingly its coffee shops are not.
The Law Society has condemned government plans to cut costs at the Crown Prosecution Service as "wholly unacceptable".
Hassan Nemazee, a fundraiser for President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for cheating Citigroup Inc.,HSBC Holdings Plc and Bank of America Corp. of $292 million.
According to a recent Nestlé ad campaign aimed at parents, a drink called Boost Kid Essentials was so good for children that it could keep them from getting colds and missing school.
Brazil´s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has sent a bill to Congress which would ban the use of corporal punishment on children.
A senior Tanzanian defence lawyer at the UN-backed tribunal for Rwanda has been shot dead outside his home in Tanzania´s main city of Dar es Salaam.
California Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who presided over the often turbulent restructuring of state courts and wrote the ruling that temporarily gave gays the right to marry, said Wednesday he would step down in January after a 38-year career in the California court system.
A list of 1,300 Utah residents described as illegal immigrants has sown fear among some Hispanics and prompted an investigation into its origins and dissemination.
The B.C. government will today launch a major expansion of online gambling, including a move that will make the province the first in North America to legalize and regulate online casino games, The Vancouver Sun has learned.
President Dmitry Medvedev acknowledged Wednesday that his much-trumpeted campaign against corruption has yielded no palpable results and urged lawmakers to start conducting parliamentary investigations to fight the problem.
The consumer watchdog has gone to court against two companies it says are marketing plastic shopping bags in South Australia that flout a state ban.
A plagiarism fight involving two British authors of books about young wizards has crossed the pond.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. has settled the remainder of gender bias claims brought by women field representatives who claimed they were discriminated against in pay, promotion and in pregnancy policies.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, is planning use a controversial anti-pornography law to restrict porn websites in the next few months, a communications ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
Lawyers at a notable Toronto labour law firm who advise employers on dealing with sensitive workplace issues have become embroiled in their own storm centring on allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct, which have surfaced in an explosive $2.3-million defamation case.
A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments Thursday over whether Arizona´s new immigration law should take effect later this month, marking the first major hearing in one of seven challenges to the strict law.
BBVA Chairman Francisco González yesterday assured the Supreme Court that not one cent of 200,000 euro the bank contributed to High Court Judge Baltasar Garzón’s organization of a series of seminars in New York ended up in the magistrate’s pockets.
A French property tycoon enraged at his government´s plans to ban women from wearing the full veil in public has promised a fund of €1m (£830,000) to help any Muslim who is fined for wearing the niqab in the street.
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