A British tourist has been locked up for 58 days in an Iranian jail for taking a photo.
Two South American beer and beverage companies have announced plans to merge their interests in Venezuela, the continent´s second-largest beer market.
The UK operation of Zurich Insurance has been fined £2.27m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for losing personal details of 46,000 customers.
Yemen has been accused by Amnesty International of abandoning human rights in the name of security.
Two families have agreed to settle wrongful-death lawsuits over the crash of Continental Airlines Connection Flight 3407, which killed 50 people.
If businesses fail to appoint more women as board members, the Commission will resort to legislation.
In a sign of increasing cooperation between the two former Yugoslav republics, Croatia has extradited a man to Serbia for his suspected involvement in the 2003 murder of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch has appealed against his conviction and 30-year prison sentence handed down by Cambodia´s UN-backed war crimes court, his lawyer said Wednesday.
A federal district judge on Monday blocked President Obama´s 2009 executive order that expanded embryonic stem cell research, saying it violated a ban on federal money being used to destroy embryos.
A false sense of Internet security can mean legal quagmires for critics who are careless about facts.
It´s an unusual campaign pledge: a strip club in every town. That, however, is what Adriely Fatal, a stripper and "erotic actress" from north-eastern Brazil, is promising voters as she hits the campaign trail in search of a place in parliament.
Swedish prosecutors have defended their decision to issue then withdraw an arrest warrant against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on rape charges.
Pentagon lawyers believe that online whistleblower group WikiLeaks acted illegally in disclosing thousands of classified Afghanistan war reports and other material, and federal prosecutors are exploring possible criminal charges, officials familiar with the matter said.
The stage is set for a crush of people to descend upon a Toronto courthouse Monday as more than 300 people charged with offences related to the G20 summit are set to appear, along with their families, supporters and lawyers for what will be a marathon session of mass appearances.
A woman has been killed in a shoot-out after armed men burst into a tourist hotel in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, police say.
The Government´s keenly awaited alcohol reforms will make no substantial difference to New Zealand´s heavy drinking culture, says a spokesperson for Alcohol Action NZ.
China, which executes more people each year than any other country, said it is considering dropping capital punishment for economic crimes.
A Bangladesh court has ruled that people cannot be forced to wear skull caps, veils or other religious clothing in workplaces, schools and colleges.
Facing allegations that they violated the Texas Public Information Act, on Aug. 16 State Bar of Texas officials released to a member of the public the e-mail addresses of nearly 63,000 lawyers.
More than 30 million Americans practice some sort of yoga in an ever-expanding industry generating an estimated $6 billion in the United States alone.
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