OCT
8
2010

The case against Colonel Williams: He took videos of the crimes

Former CFB Trenton Commander Colonel Russell Williams videoed part of the two murders and two bizarre sexual assaults he will formally plead guilty to later this month, The Globe and Mail has learned.

OCT
8
2010

Judge: Prosecution statements ´distressing´ in Anna Nicole Smith trial

The judge in the Anna Nicole Smith drug trial scolded the prosecutor for "misrepresenting what was testified" during her closing rebuttal Friday and said his remedy could be to allow the defense to have another chance to address jurors.

OCT
8
2010

Lawyer sentenced to 22 years for Nigerian oil scam

A Florida securities lawyer was sent to prison for 22 years Wednesday for cheating victims out of millions of dollars in a fraudulent advance-fee scheme.

OCT
8
2010

HSBC settles money-laundering probe

Federal regulators sanctioned HSBC, the giant U.K.-based bank, for breaking federal money-laundering laws.

OCT
8
2010

Google forced to remove ´dead body´ images from Brazil Street View service

Google has been forced to remove graphic images from its Street View service in Brazil after it captured images of dead bodies.

OCT
8
2010

CPS apology after assault trial collapses

A woman has received an apology from the Crown Prosecution Service after failings led to the collapse of an assault trial in which she was the alleged victim

OCT
8
2010

Telefonica, Vodafone lose U.K. regulator ruling on freeing up 3G spectrum

Telefonica SA´s O2 and Vodafone Group Plc lost a U.K. court bid to start using their second-generation wireless spectrum for newer smartphones such as Apple Inc.´s iPhone to improve data capacity.

OCT
8
2010

Toshiba, DHL, Privacy, Copyright, Bank of America: Intellectual property

Toshiba Corp., a Japanese electronics maker, settled a patent-infringement fight with contract manufacturer Wistron Corp. over technology used in notebook computers, legal filings show.

OCT
8
2010

Nice voting machines; shame about the candidates

The whizzy electronic ballot boxes that Brazil uses for elections meant that most results were announced before bedtime on polling day.

OCT
8
2010

Senate rejects motion asking Unesco to give bullfighting special status

The Senate on Wednesday voted down a proposal to push the Spanish government to ask Unesco to add bullfighting to its special cultural interest list.

OCT
7
2010

French rogue trader´s bank won´t demand billions in damages

The bank that French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel worked for does not intend to force him to pay 4.9 billion euros (about $6.8 billion) in damages to the bank, a representative said Wednesday.

OCT
7
2010

Zurich will pay $455 million in farmers class action settlement

Zurich Financial Services AG, Switzerland´s largest insurer, will pay $455 million to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit related to its Farmers Group unit and incur attorneys´ fees of as much as $90 million.

OCT
7
2010

Motorola sues Apple over 18 patents

A Motorola unit filed three lawsuits and a trade complaint against Apple, contending the maker of the iPad computer tablet and iPhone mobile phone is infringing 18 of its patents.

OCT
7
2010

Drug maker from China pleads guilty

GeneScience Pharmaceutical, a Chinese company, and its chief executive pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal charges of illegally distributing human growth hormone in the United States, capping a three-year investigation.

OCT
7
2010

Lily Allen accepts damages over magazine claims

Singer Lily Allen has accepted damages at London´s High Court over claims she made offensive remarks about the Beckhams and Ashley and Cheryl Cole.

OCT
7
2010

Perth magistrate accepts naked man with replica gun was not a threat

A Perth judge has accepted post-traumatic stress from years in detention as an explanation for the actions of a naked man who sent downtown Perth into lockdown when he climbed to the top of a billboard holding a replica gun.

OCT
7
2010

US military funeral protest case opens in supreme court

Case about fundamentalist church picketing marine´s funeral tests first amendment rights to free speech.

OCT
7
2010

Kerobokan Prison boss to testify for Australians from Bali Nine group currently on death row

The head of Bali´s Kerobokan Prison will testify in defence of Bali Nine death row inmates Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran tomorrow.

OCT
7
2010

Almost 100 Puerto Rican law officers arrested

Nearly 100 current and former Puerto Rican law enforcement officers were arrested Wednesday on drug-related charges as part of the largest police corruption investigation in the history of the FBI.

OCT
7
2010

CFTC gets tough on fraud

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is cracking down on fraud.

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