Police are questioning France´s richest woman, L´Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, over claims of illegal political donations and tax evasion.
What began as a proposal to ban sales of dogs and cats quickly grew to include birds, hamsters, rats and other small mammals. Shelters and rescue groups could still offer adoptions.
A South Florida plaintiffs attorney active in oil spill litigation is calling on the administrator of BP´s $20 billion compensation fund to disclose how much the oil giant is paying him and to stop discouraging victims from seeking legal representation.
A new U.S. law aims to ensure that smart phones are not helping fund wars in Congo and neighboring countries.
Iran has sentenced award-winning journalist Emadeddin Baghi to a year in prison and banned him from political activities for five years, an opposition website reported.
Baghi, who is also a well-known human rights activist, has been "sentenced to one year in prison and banned from political activities for five years after a two-year trial for forming a group defending the rights of prisoners," the Rahesabz website said.
Baghi is awaiting a second trial on charges levelled by the intelligence ministry over his appearance in an interview with late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri broadcast by the BBC Persian service, the report said.
He was arrested on December 28, a day after opposition protests during a Shi´ite religious festival saw eight people killed in one of the deadliest crackdowns on anti-government demonstrators.
He was released on bail in June.
Baghi has been campaigning against the death penalty and won the prestigious Martin Ennals Award for human rights activism in 2009.
Ferrari’s Formula One team was fined $100,000 for breaking racing rules after Felipe Massa appeared to be given team orders to let Fernando Alonso lead a 1-2 finish at yesterday’s German Grand Prix.
It is evident that the international criminal court will only be as effective as African countries want it to be. But does the ICC know that?
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has threatened to halt oil exports to the US if his country is attacked by Colombia - a close US ally.
Tens of thousands of offenders in Britain may be able to reduce their sentences by making personal apologies to their victims, under plans for a "rehabilitation revolution" in the criminal justice system.
It was meant to be a celebration of love, life and music. But this year’s Love Parade in Duisburg ended in disaster, with 19 people killed and hundreds of others injured. Two days on, many questions are left unanswered.
Just how much are bankruptcy lawyers and advisers making in the ongoing Lehman Brothers bankruptcy?
Indigenous protesters in the Brazilian Amazon have occupied the site of a hydro-electric plant they say has been built on an ancient burial ground.
Trials without juries in serious criminal cases must only be held as a "last resort", the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has said.
Ten states have swiftly passed new laws requiring additional disclosure of political spending, following a Supreme Court ruling that lets corporations and unions pump unlimited amounts of money into certain campaign commercials.
Competitive cheerleading is not an official sport that colleges can use to meet gender-equity requirements, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in ordering a Connecticut school to keep its women´s volleyball team.
A WOMAN is suing American Airlines for $US5 million ($5.6 million) after the company lost her suitcase and refused to refund a $US25 ($28) baggage fee.
Mattel Inc. must retry its claims to MGA Entertainment Inc.´s Bratz dolls after an appeals court overturned a judge´s finding that Mattel owned the ideas and work of a former employee who first thought of the dolls.
Vodafone Group Plc, the world’s biggest mobile-phone company, agreed to pay 1.25 billion pounds ($1.93 billion) to the U.K. to settle a lawsuit over taxation of its European units based outside of Britain.
I met Tracy at the Derby community legal advice centre 12 months ago. This was one of the first of what was then being promised as a national network of "one-stop shops" for legal advice.
Spain will not yet officially recognize Kosovo’s independence despite yesterday’s ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that favored the former Serbian province´s split from the rest of the Balkan nation.
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