A 29-year-old Swedish tourist has been arrested in connection with a drink spiking incident at a Napier bar which saw four people hospitalised at the weekend.
A Chinese soft drinks maker has won a lawsuit against the local unit of PepsiCo over claims it had illegally used its recipes and business secrets, state media said today.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is among 17 US billionaires taking the pledge to donate the majority of their wealth to charity.
Attorney General says strikers committed "very serious" offense.
New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Linda Dalianis became the first female to head the state´s highest court with her confirmation yesterday by the Executive Council as chief justice.
The Senate voted last night to fix an error in the federal health care law that could cost Children´s Hospital Boston and others like it millions of dollars in added drug costs to treat children with rare diseases.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested, as Visa and MasterCard joined companies that are distancing themselves from the online publisher of classified documents to avoid increased scrutiny and political pressure.
Twelve of New York´s 15 law schools reported lower pass rates among first-time candidates for the July 2010 bar examination -- seven schools by substantial margins, ranging from five to 17 percentage points.
A fire in a prison in the Chilean capital Santiago has left at least 81 inmates dead, officials say.
The federal government has failed to adequately protect the habitat of endangered and threatened killer whales, a Federal Court judge ruled Tuesday.
A group of women employees is suing Walmart for discrimination, charging the nation´s biggest retailer with underpaying female workers and denying them equal opportunities for promotion.
Department of Work and Pensions cannot take legal action to recover money paid as a result of its own error.
Twelve years ago, Starbucks and Kraft entered into an agreement whereby Kraft would distribute Starbucks´s packaged coffees to grocery stores and other retailers.
Jailed financier R. Allen Stanford is too heavily medicated to prepare for or testify at his January trial on charges he led a $7 billion investment fraud, his lawyer claimed in a bid for bail.
Wish you could work in a law firm that´s run like a frat house or the Playboy mansion? Well, you might consider packing up your bags for the metropolis of Pittsburgh.
The death penalty went on trial Monday in Texas, a state where more prisoners are executed every year than in any other and where exonerations of people on death row occur with surprising regularity.
Blanco intent on punishing those responsible for wildcat stoppage chaos as PP demands minister´s head.
Calling all YouPorn watchers! Two California men, David Pitner and Jared Reagan, have filed a class-action lawsuit over the site´s practice of "history sniffing," or checking out other porn websites that visitors have been to through exploiting a Javascript security flaw.
Last week saw the first of a series of cases involving six parliamentarians accused of dishonesty relating to their expenses.
High court judge to rule if coalition´s budget is biased against women
Ruling expected on Fawcett Society´s claim that government´s planned cuts will affect females disproportionately.
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