BP Plc investors accused the company of lying about its commitment to safety, inflating company shares for three years before the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon set off the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was ordered to stand trial on charges of abuse of power and paying a minor for sex, fueling calls for his resignation amid a deepening clash with the nation´s judiciary.
The Naked Cowboy is singing the same old song, filing yet another lawsuit for a supposed ripoff of his guitar and skivvies shtick.
A court in Ecuador´s Amazon told Chevron Corp on Monday to pay more than $8 billion in environmental damages, the plaintiffs´ lawyer said, but the U.S. oil giant will fight on in a suit seen as a global test case.
A group of Japanese citizens has filed a lawsuit challenging a civil law that effectively stops women from keeping their surnames when they marry.
A judge on Monday dismissed David Beckham´s $25 million (15.6 million pound) libel lawsuit against a celebrity magazine that ran an article saying the married, football star slept with a call girl.
Questions abound as the military seems to be ignoring the constitution: Will the document be amended or scrapped; will the opposition get to help in nation-building and when will elections be held?
President Barack Obama´s expected visit to Latin American countries next month is renewing the hope of some Americans that the president will address their concerns rather than his usual pronouncements in which he apologizes for perceived slights and makes promises that benefit Latin America.
The state Supreme Court on Friday overturned an $8.5 million Etowah County jury award made to a severely injured passenger of a vehicle that flipped several times in a 2003 wreck in Georgia, killing two others.
The man convicted of killing Chandra Levy — a 24-year-old government intern whose relationship with Gary A. Condit, a California congressman, made the murder case a national news sensation — was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison.
Tons of Verizon customers who have been waiting a long time are now getting their first iPhone.
The need to network broadly is obvious to the job seeker but networking within your organization is just as important for the gainfully employed.
WikiLeaks founder´s QC said Swedish woman´s accusation of sexual assault described the ´missionary position´.
Egypt´s new military regime dismantled ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak´s former regime on Sunday, dissolving parliament, suspending the constitution and promising a referendum on political reform.
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Julian Assange and his lawyer challenge a Swedish prosecutor to come to Britain to testify over the sex crimes allegations that could lead to the WikiLeaks´ founder´s extradition to Sweden.
Pfizer Inc. agreed to pay about $330 million to resolve claims that its Prempro menopause drug caused breast cancer, in the first large-scale settlements in eight years of litigation, two people familiar with the accords said.
I don´t get the logic: Big firms are lavishing associates with fat bonuses again, while, at the same time, signaling that their chances for partnership are worse than ever.
Just in time for Valentine´s Day, state bureaucrats have concluded that a candy store´s decision to call itself "The Chocolate Library" would not mislead patrons into believing that they could find books there instead of bonbons.
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