Nearly 15 years after its controversial drug trial on 200 children with meningitis in Nigeria, Pfizer Inc. and all plaintiffs in the cases related to the trial announced today that they have reached a global settlement.
French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie Tuesday demanded an immediate reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and supported Brazil´s bid for a permanent seat in the body.
Prosecutors in Brazil have filed a suit against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for allegedly misusing $5.7 million in public funds.
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case that touched on the most pressing constitutional question of the day: just how much power does Congress have to regulate matters ordinarily left up to the states?
A woman whose 3-foot (90-centimete)-long snake slithered away from her in a Boston subway car and hid there for nearly a month has gotten a hefty cleaning bill.
WikiLeaks founder handed verdict at Belmarsh magistrates court.
President Barack Obama has ordered the Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and woman, according to a statement Wednesday from Attorney General Eric Holder.
Emboldened by a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, manufacturers of toys and other children´s products are making a last-ditch effort to quash new safety regulations that they say are unfair or too onerous.
The family of a woman killed in a head-on collision may sue the maker of the minivan she was riding in for failing to install lap-and-shoulder belts, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday.
Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago congressman who served two Democratic presidents in the White House, won a decisive victory to become his hometown´s next mayor following the two-decade tenure of Richard M. Daley.
Sonia LeBel has spent 20 years putting bikers, drug traffickers and murderers behind bars. On Tuesday, forced to return to work by special government legislation, she said she is contemplating quitting for the first time in her life.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in an unusual case examining the scope of the Tenth Amendment and the ability of a Pennsylvania woman to challenge her conviction for poisoning her husband´s lover.
Major cuts to school budgets as federal stimulus funding dries up. Tying teacher evaluations to student performance on standardized tests. Expanding vouchers and virtual school programs.
It takes more than a hit movie to disrupt the social pillars that have stood at Harvard for 200 years.
A trial commissioner for the Kentucky Bar Association has recommended that Ohio superlawyer Stanley Chesley, Democratic kingmaker and husband of a federal judge, lose his license for engineering a settlement of fen-phen claims that violated some of the most fundamental rules of lawyering.
Blockbuster Inc., the bankrupt movie rental chain, agreed to be bought by a group of debt holders for as much as $290 million as part of a bankruptcy auction.
Google Inc., the world´s leading search engine, blocks smaller competitors from generating advertising revenue, a competitor said in a complaint to European Union regulators.
Nancy Kissel, who has admitted killing her Merrill Lynch & Co. banker husband, told Hong Kong´s High Court yesterday that he was an absent spouse who physically and sexually abused her.
Egypt´s general prosecutor on Monday referred former interior minister Habib Al-Adly and former tourism minister Zoheir Garranah to the Cairo criminal court, the official MENA agency reported.
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