A federal judge in Georgia has been arrested on drug and weapons charges after federal agents say he bought drugs for a stripper with whom he was having an affair.
Nestle SA approached the Brazilian government with a proposal to sell assets and settle a six-year court dispute related to its purchase of Chocolates Garoto SA, which was blocked by antitrust regulators, according to two government officials.
The Philippine House of Representatives has approved a bill criminalising the improper singing of the country´s national anthem.
A French court found rogue trader Jerome Kerviel guilty of covert stock trading on Monday, which cost Societe Generale almost five billion euros. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
Only a tiny percentage of prosecutors who engaged in misconduct were disciplined by the State Bar of California during a 12-year period, according to a report released Monday.
Three international pharmaceutical companies praised new amendments to the law on the circulation of medicines on Monday, saying they will bring regulation of the pharmaceutical market closer to global standards.
Apple has asked a court to reconsider an impending decision that could cost it more than $600m (£379m) in damages.
McDonald´s could be banned from putting toys in Happy Meals, unless the food is made healthier, under a plan being considered by officials in San Francisco.
Die Hard director John McTiernan has been sentenced to one year in prison for lying in a wiretapping case.
The Justice Department on Monday sued the three largest U.S. credit card companies for anticompetitive practices and reached a proposed settlement with two of them, MasterCard and Visa.
A Brazilian clown has had the last laugh by winning a seat in Congress with more votes than any other candidate in Sunday´s elections.
Romario, the retired Brazilian footballer who won the World Cup in 1994, has been elected to his country´s lower chamber.
There was no first-round win for Dilma – but the symbolism of voting for Lula´s protegée remains strong.
A jailed Long Island attorney scheduled to go to trial today for allegedly stealing at least $300,000 from clients who had hired him to help them arrange adoptions was charged last week with assaulting a corrections officer after the officer told the lawyer to stop hogging the only copying machine in the law library.
Joel S. Finkelstein said he received an invitation this summer from his fellow equity partners to attend a meeting on the financial condition of the three personal injury firms they controlled.
Drug manufacturers often flout a federal law that requires them to provide the government with pricing data needed to calculate discounts on medications prescribed for poor people under Medicaid, federal investigators say in a new report.
Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, a cavernous bar just off this city´s strip of honky-tonks and tourist shops when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a loaded 9-millimeter pistol in the front pocket of his gray slacks.
A worldwide survey shows that lawyers in many countries think corruption has tainted their profession, with more than one in five saying they have been asked to take part in possibly shady transactions, according to results.
Deutsche Bank AG won a court order that a company controlled by two of Indonesia´s richest men must end legal attempts outside Singapore to regain pledged shares that Germany´s biggest bank sold.
An old diskette has been dusted off and become a potential key piece of evidence at the Quebec commission looking into allegations of political interference in the appointment of judges.
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