The head of the International Monetary Fund must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday.
Today 16 May 2011, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo requested ICC judges to issue arrest warrants against Muammar Abu Minya Gaddafi, Saif Al Islam Gaddafi and the Head of the Intelligence Abdullah Al Sanousi from crimes against humanity committed in Libya since February 2011.
IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn could face up to 20 years in prison as he faces sex assault charges in a New York court this morning in an astonishing fall from grace that has stunned the international community and his native France.
Last July, when President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, he promised greater oversight power to the agencies tasked with keeping watch over the nation´s financial markets.
Several major record companies announced Thursday that they have reached a $105m settlement with music file-sharing website LimeWire.
A British judge has banned Twitter users from identifying a brain-damaged woman in one of the first attempts to prevent the messaging website from revealing sensitive information.
The antitrust judgment landed by the Department of Justice 10 years ago against Microsoft officially expired on Thursday, marking the end of one of the most famous antitrust cases in U.S. history.
The grandchildren of the founder of the French car company Renault are seeking compensation for the nationalisation of the firm after the war.
Brazil´s Chamber of Deputies has again postponed a vote on controversial changes that would ease a key law on forest protection.
Companies are warming to a new way of generating revenue: suing for it.
The European human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, has launched a legally binding international treaty to combat violence against women.
Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire investor, once ran the Galleon Group, which became one of the world´s largest hedge funds.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange now makes his associates sign a draconian nondisclosure agreement that, among other things, asserts that the organization´s huge trove of leaked material is "solely the property of WikiLeaks," according to a report Wednesday.
Microsoft Corp.´s nine-year-old antitrust agreement with the U.S. Justice Department, set to expire today, permanently changed the software marketplace, making it more open, fair and innovative, the agency said.
Dozens of GM - General Motors Co. executive retirees sued the company contending they suffered loss of benefits after the automaker´s bankruptcy.
Britain´s top judges rule that Northern Irish pair who suffered miscarriage of justice are entitled to compensation.
Federal Parliament has passed legislation to overturn a ban on prisoners voting and to increase the amount of time people have to enrol once an election is called.
A Liberal Senator is calling for the dismissal of a psychiatrist over the testimony he gave at the trial of convicted child-killer Arthur Freeman.
Battle lines will start being drawn this week in a cartel case by the Commerce Commission against carriers including Air New Zealand at the High Court at Auckland.
Corruption conjures up images of shadowy deals among lobbyists, corporations and crooked government officials.
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