Jailed former newspaper magnate Conrad Black was granted bail on Monday by a federal appeals court, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court kicked his 2007 fraud conviction back to a lower court.
Florida lawmakers return to the Capitol today for a rare summertime special session that may produce little more than partisan rancor and finger-pointing.
Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are under renewed pressure to bulletproof up to 200 schools in conflict-stricken areas, after an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet during a maths lesson.
President Obama plans to press Congress today to pass pay-equity legislation that would make it easier for women to sue employers who pay them less than their male counterparts, the White House said Monday.
Mr Shapiro resigned after he and Lohan met briefly with Judge Marsha Revel at the Los Angeles Superior Court today, California TV station KTLA reported.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to resolve more than 800 cases alleging its Paxil antidepressant caused birth defects in some users´ children, according to people familiar with the settlements.
Steve Burri’s two daughters are always outnumbered when it comes to arguing with their parents.
Georgia´s old law was challenged by civil liberties groups even before it took effect. After losing court battle after court battle, state legislators were forced to make a change or a federal judge was going to throw out the entire law. Now that the restrictions have been eased, about 13,000 registered sex offenders — more than 70 percent of all Georgia sex offenders — can live and work wherever they want.
Legal experts will argue over who got the best deal -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or federal regulators -- in the record fraud settlement announced Thursday. But one thing seems certain -- the investing public didn´t.
The Education Secretary has rejected claims the government is rushing legislation on major reforms to England´s school system.
Franz Kafka wanted all his manuscripts to be burned after his death, but his friend Max Brod disregarded the request, seeding a complex legal battle over thousands of manuscripts that has the literary world agog. That legal tussle takes a new twist today as four safety deposit boxes in a Zurich bank containing the manuscripts are opened.
This week marks the 15th anniversary of Europe´s worst atrocity since world war two: the Srebrenica massacre, in which some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb soldiers.
Three Ontario Crown attorneys have launched a $5-million defamation suit against provincial politicians Randy Hillier and John Yakabuski, claiming the two Conservatives harmed their reputations through a series of libellous statements.
Five months after the New York Court of Appeals handed judges a partial victory in their more-than-decade-long battle for a pay raise, a group of judges sued the state last week, insisting they are entitled to $51 million set aside in last year´s budget for judicial compensation.
Abortion foes have scored a victory and traditional allies of the Obama administration are grumbling about a decision to ban most abortion coverage in insurance pools for those unable to purchase health care on their own.
Female students wearing a full face veil will be barred from Syrian university campuses, the country´s minister of higher education has said.
Switzerland´s administrative court ruled an agreement with the U.S. to transfer data on as many as 4,450 UBS AG accounts is "binding" and rejected one client’s appeal to block the sending of her account information.
British Airways has been accused of racial discrimination by cabin crew, opening a new front in an industrial dispute that reaches a critical point this week as the result of a peace deal ballot is announced.
Tony Abbott has signed a "contract" promising that Work Choices is dead and buried but he continues to muddle his message on the controversial laws.
EU parliamentarians have called on the Commission to look into Colombian intelligence operations in Europe designed to ´neutralize the influence´ of critics of the Colombian government in parliament, the UNHCR and NGOs.
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