Tokyo Electric Power Co.´s choice of a 36-year company veteran to resolve the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl and avert bankruptcy prompted calls for the government to take a more direct role in managing the utility.
Brazilian authorities say about 1,000 people gathered in South America´s biggest city to protest against environmental law changes that they say would increase deforestation in the Amazon.
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Brown v. Plata to uphold the order requiring California to release up to 46,000 prisoners to remedy the state´s overcrowded prisons.
Joseph Brooks, the Oscar-winning composer of the hit "You Light Up My Life" and who was awaiting trial on rape charges, was found dead in his New York apartment on Sunday having apparently killed himself, police said.
An attempt by Caribbean resort operator Sandals Resorts International Ltd. to force Google Inc. to turn over extensive information about the sender of an allegedly libelous e-mail criticizing the company´s treatment of native Jamaicans has been rebuffed by a New York appellate court in a decision that grapples with the nature of libel claims in the Internet age.
Bratz doll maker MGA Entertainment Inc. asked a judge to triple the $88.4m in damages it won from Mattel Inc. and to award it attorney fees and costs in the seven-year fight over rights to the dolls.
Online review site My Village forced to pay for six weeks´ free work.
Germany´s Pirate Party, an emerging political group that champions the Internet and data protection, has been taken offline by authorities.
A Brazilian court has convicted a man in the death of a teen who was forced to jump from a moving train.
Crime figures have fallen in Germany, and police solved a record-breaking number of crimes in 2010.
President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that he has signed a decree ordering the Justice Ministry to monitor law enforcement and the execution of court decisions and to provide annual progress reports, making a direct link between the quality of the legal environment and Moscow´s ambition to become a global financial center.
A footballer involved in proceedings against the Sun newspaper and former big brother star Imogen Thomas has obtained a disclosure order against social networking website Twitter.
A woman who tried to sell a rare chunk of moon rock for $1.7 million U.S. (£1million) was caught out when her prospective customer turned out to be an undercover Nasa investigator.
Brazilian riot police have fired tear gas to break up a protest in support of the legalization of marijuana in South America´s biggest city. Six people were detained.
The French Court of Cassation, the country´s highest appeals court, ruled that the corruption trial against former French president Jacques Chirac can continue, rejecting a constitutional challenge brought by one of his co-defendants.
Justice Department lawyers are fighting in a Washington federal appeals court to keep secret the case names and docket numbers of criminal prosecutions in which the authorities tracked defendants through cell phone data.
Medical marijuana users in Oregon can no longer be denied concealed handgun licenses. That´s the upshot of a ruling Thursday from the Oregon Supreme Court.
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has increased almost sixfold, new data suggests.
Chances are very good that the next prescription you fill will get you a generic medicine.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been granted bail by a judge in a New York court, after being formally charged with trying to rape a hotel maid.
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