Four candidates who have registered under leader´s name, believe that ´borrowing´ his identity will give them boost in polls.
Two American tobacco companies are paying nearly $30 million to settle charges that they bribed foreign officials to win lucrative overseas tobacco sales contracts, government officials said.
Attorney David Boies knows what it´s like to argue a historic case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he knows what it´s like to lose.
Vulnerable children are being "damaged" by delays in care proceedings in England and Wales, a charity has said.
Drug giant AstraZeneca is to pay $198m to settle 17,500 US personal injury claims related to its schizophrenia and bipolar disorder drug Seroquel.
Investigators in northern Germany are reportedly looking into allegations that up to 100 pharmacies in the region are buying and selling illegal ingredients to make antibiotics, painkillers and cancer treatment drugs.
In China, tobacco companies sponsor schools. Almost half of all male doctors smoke. And one wedding dinner ritual involves the bride lighting cigarettes for each of her male guests.
The country´s top sanitary doctor said Friday that he was seeking criminal charges against a firm providing food services at the ExxonMobil-led Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project after 70 people suffered mild to moderate food poisoning.
The four main candidates in Brazil´s presidential election have taken part in the first televised debate.
Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings Ltd. sued its founder Huang Guangyu, once China’s richest man, over share repurchases in 2008 and breach of trust. The company’s shares dropped the most in almost two years.
Aviation lawyer and seasoned pilot Arthur Alan Wolk knows quite a bit about the stratosphere and the troposphere, but he may have learned something new this week about the blogosphere when a federal judge tossed out his libel suit against the bloggers at Overlawyered.com.
Security agencies are watching with concern as a controversial Islamic school attempts to move to another location in Germany.
The human rights lawyer forced to flee Iran for defending a woman sentenced to death by stoning has appealed for international pressure to save his client and end his own wife´s imprisonment.
UP to 100,000 more Australians could be allowed to vote in the August 21 election after the High Court ruled parts of the Electoral Act were unconstitutional.
Firefighters battling the worst blazes that Russia has seen in decades got a welcome boost Thursday when aircraft, firetrucks and personnel arrived to help from Italy and five former Soviet republics.
As Arizona´s lawyers prepare to enter more federal courtrooms to defend SB1070, the state´s new law against illegal immigrants and the harshest of its kind, the other 49 states are watching for clues.
Brazil´s Supreme Court is wrestling with one of the toughest dilemmas in politics: which is preferable, absolute equality before the law or discrimination in favour of disadvantaged races? This is a surprise, for until recently Brazil liked to see itself as a true melting pot.
Representatives from 74 nations - including the US, for the first time - gathered to mark the moment the bomb was dropped
As Russia reels from the worst drought in nearly 40 years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary ban on grain exports.
One of the country´s top QCs feared Supreme Court judge Bill Wilson would bring down the Chief Justice with him if he was forced to resign.
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