Brazil has revolutionised its own farms. Can it do the same for others?
A federal judge has sanctioned a leading developer of "flash drive" technology for its mishandling of electronic discovery in what the judge called a "David and Goliath-like" struggle.
Bergen County, N.J., Superior Court Judge Ellen Koblitz doesn´t seem too worried about sparing the reputations of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Lowenstein Sandler.
The Nuremberg Laws, which laid the legal groundwork for the execution of six million Jews during the Holocaust, have been handed over to the US National Archives.
Wal-Mart Stores asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to review the largest employment discrimination lawsuit in American history, involving more than a million female workers, current and former, at Wal-Mart and Sam´s Club stores.
Brazil´s Superior Court of Justice reaffirmed a decision ordering banks to refund depositors losses stemming from four government anti-inflation plans almost two decades ago. A banking group estimates the refund, if upheld, could cost as much as 180 billion reais ($102 billion).
A Russian court on Wednesday sent a leading human rights activist and Kremlin critic to jail for three days for taking part in an unsanctioned protest demonstration in Moscow on Sunday, one of the organizers of the protest said.
Romanian authorities have launched a criminal inquiry into a Bucharest maternity hospital where five newborns died and six others were injured in a fire last week, the chief prosecutor in charge of the investigation said Wednesday.
An Iranian journalist is suing phone company Nokia over surveillance technology that helped Iranian authorities track and arrest him, the ABC reported today.
A draft bill in Germany would crack down on employers who use hidden cameras or social networking to spy on employees. Germany would become the first country to forbid Facebook content to be used for hiring purposes.
A retired university professor who has pursued dozens of electronics companies for patent infringement on Monday filed a notice to sue her former attorneys for $10 million, accusing them of misusing escrow funds and charging her excessive fees.
India´s lower house of parliament has approved a law that opens its nuclear power market to private investment.
The former editor of Indonesian Playboy could face two years in jail after Indonesian prosecutors said they would enforce a 2009 Supreme Court ruling.
The high-profile case of German pop singer Nadja Benaissa, who was charged with aggravated assault for having unprotected sex while she knew she was HIV positive, has ended in a two-year suspended sentence.
Polly Peck tycoon and Conservative party donor who fled Britain 17 years ago lands at Luton airport.
US bookstore chain Barnes & Noble has reported a loss between April and June, in part due to legal costs incurred in a battle with a major shareholder.
Private defence company Blackwater has been fined $42m (£27m) for violating US export and arms traffic laws.
On the Internet, he was known as BadB, a disembodied criminal flitting from one server to another selling stolen credit card numbers despite being pursued by the United States Secret Service.
The National Institutes of Health said yesterday it will not award new grants or renew existing ones for research on human embryonic stem cells after a federal judge temporarily halted the Obama administration’s expansion of federal funding for this research.
A series of meetings to discuss France´s treatment of its Roma community begin with the visit of two Romanian ministers to France on Wednesday. The French policy is drawing heavy criticizm from across Europe.
voltar para o topo