The leaders of the Coalition Government this morning gave their firmest commitments yet about the timetable of Britain´s withdrawal from the country.
The oil giant said it had reached a $7bn (£4.6bn) deal with US-based oil production firm Apache Corp.
An Israeli judge overseeing a battle over papers once belonging to Franz Kafka has ruled that details of the documents should be made public, the Guardian has learned.
A rural school district that canceled its prom rather than allow a lesbian student to attend with her girlfriend has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit the ACLU filed on her behalf.
There are some very important things they don´t tell you on career day. Chief among them is that there is a good chance that at some point during your working adult life you will have an abusive boss — the kind who uses his or her authority to torment subordinates.
Law schools hire more openly liberal professors than openly conservatives ones, but the plum jobs at the most prestigious schools don´t appear to be going solely to the liberals.
THE city council of Oakland, California, has voted to allow industrial scale production of medical marijuana in a landmark decision which some hope will turn the city into "the Silicon Valley of pot".
Fabrice Tourre, the Goldman Sachs & Co. trader, has chosen a novel defense against federal regulators accusing him of fraud. He´s blaming the in-house lawyers.
The Obama administration moved Wednesday to push new sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates showed solidarity with South Korea during a visit to the area that separates it from the North.
On 28 July, for the first time ever, the general assembly of the United Nations will hold a historic summit on the human right to water.
The Central Intelligence Agency may still exempt from Freedom of Information Act disclosure materials that reveal intelligence sources and methods, even though they relate to the secret detention and interrogation program that has since been repudiated by the government, a federal judge has ruled.
Without shooting down a single article, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed into law the the Racial Equality Statute on Tuesday (20). The new measure aims to promote equal opportunity as well as combat discrimination through public policy.
Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in New York to submit documents related to problems with steering relay rods.
Elena Kagan, President Obama´s Supreme Court nominee, won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee on a nearly party-line vote Tuesday, her next to last hurdle before gaining a lifetime seat on the high court.
A woman lawyer cannot sue her firm for sex discrimination if her status as a shareholder and director gives her the ability to participate in firm governance and a percentage of firm profits, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
Linklaters LLP, the second highest grossing U.K. law firm, was ordered to pay taxes in India on services provided by foreign lawyers in a ruling that may raise levies for overseas professional companies.
A leading legal charity has called on a senior judge to step down from the inquiry he is leading into allegations that the UK has been involved in torture, saying his impartiality is "fatally compromised" because of his relationship with the security services.
Brazil´s consumer prices unexpectedly declined in the month through mid-July, the first monthly deflation reading in four years.
British Airways cabin crew have rejected the airline´s latest "final" pay offer by 3,419 votes to 1,686.
The European Union is considering tough new sanctions against Iran to protest its nuclear program, including banning investment in the oil and gas sector and tightening restrictions on shipping and finance.
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