U.K. lawsuits against the country´s 100 biggest companies increased 16 percent in a year, suggesting an "inevitable flood" of litigation from the financial crisis hasn´t peaked, a legal publisher said.
Mothers and fathers alike share the right to take breastfeeding leave, regardless of their respective employmentsituations, according to a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Noisy protests at military funerals, immigration reform and violent video games are among the issues on the Supreme Court´s docket as the high court begins its new term Monday.
Export Development Canada is set to announce Monday one of the largest deals in the government agency´s 65-year history: up to $1-billion (U.S.) in financing to Brazilian miner Vale (VALE-N 31.40 -0.30- 0.95%).
Gunmen shot dead a judge in the Philippines today in an attack that could be related to his job, police said.
The NSW Department of Education has been told to pay a teaching applicant $38,000 in compensation after it refused to employ him because of his past criminal record.
Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire is to be deported from Israel within 48 hours after her appeal to overturn her entry refusal was rejected.
In the biggest-ever civil penalty against a single facility for violating the Clean Air Act, BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to pay $15 million to resolve federal Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Texas petroleum refinery.
Ukraine´s constitutional court has boosted the powers of President Viktor Yanukovych by reversing a reform introduced in 2004.
China Petrochemical Corp., the country´s second-largest oil and gas producer, will invest $7.1 billion in Repsol YPF SA´s Brazilian unit as the Spanish oil company raises funds to develop offshore projects.
The Principal Financial Group announced on Thursday that it planned to stop selling health insurance, another sign of upheaval emerging among insurers as the new federal health law starts to take effect.
A stand-up comedian is finally allowed to joke about his ex-wife on stage after winning a bitter legal dispute in which she tried to gag him.
In a sign of a possible easing of tensions between North and South Korea, the two countries agreed on Friday to hold a series of reunions of families separated by the Korean War, with 100 families from each side to be reunited at the Diamond Mountain resort in the North from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5.
The judge in Rod Blagojevich´s corruption case will rule on a request by the former Illinois governor´s lead attorneys to leave his defense team.
Report also attacked by Rwanda and Burundi whose armies are accused of committing hundreds of atrocities from 1993 to 2003.
Themes: Brazil, the country of the future; The cult of Lula; Risk and Reward; Racing for record stakes; The 2010 general elections.
A U.S. unit of Novartis AG, the Swiss drugmaker, agreed to pay $422.5 million to resolve criminal and civil investigations into the marketing of its epilepsy drug Trileptal.
Toy manufacturing giant Mattel is voluntarily recalling nearly 11 million products in the U.S. and Canada, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada.
An Indian court ruled Thursday that a disputed holy site that sparked bloody riots in the past should now be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities.
The United Nations said on Thursday governments must respect the rights of all migrants, in a statement apparently targeting measures including Arizona´s crackdown on illegal immigrants and French expulsions of Roma.
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