The Government of the Australian State of Queensland today ordered to investigate the participation of two girls from 7 to 8 years in a match of Kick Boxing, whose award was a few hundred Australian dollars (74 euros).
Tunisia´s former autocratic ruler, whose overthrow triggered a series of Arab world uprisings, went on trial in absentia Monday in the first of what will likely be a long series of court proceedings five months after he went into exile.
Brazilian security forces have occupied one of Rio de Janeiro´s biggest slums as part of a major crackdown ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to block a $147m annual payment to Brazil´s cotton industry, renewing a decade-old trade dispute with that country.
The Obama administration today backed steps by United Nations human rights and labor bodies to protect as many as 100 million domestic workers and prevent human rights abuses by transnational corporations.
Pfizer Inc. smoking cessation aid Chantix, already carrying a warning it raises risks of suicide, may be tied to higher heart danger in patients with cardiovascular disease, U.S. regulators said.
Morocco´s King Mohammed VI will unveil landmark reform proposals likely to include curbs on his wide-ranging powers in a nationwide address tomorrow that comes after widespread demands for reform.
Congress needs a guest-worker plan for the industry, ag leaders say
Silvio Berlusconi tried to cover up his relationship with a teenage nightclub dancer in what amounted to a "military attack", prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Only in New York! A leggy blonde was pulled over by a police officer in the Big Apple for cycling too sexily.
A specially appointed medical panel is recommending that Liliane Bettencourt, the elderly L´Oréal heiress, be protected by a guardian because of her deteriorating health, according to the newspaper Le Monde.
More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children.
A Chinese court sentenced three people to prison terms for collaborating to steal information from a key supplier regarding Apple Inc.´s iPad 2 several months before its release, the latest outcome from leaks about products made by the technology giant.
The Brazilian antitrust regulator, known as Cade, is postponing its decision on whether to block the merger of BRF - Brasil Foods, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation who declined to be identified because the decision isn’t yet public.
New York was on the cusp of legalizing same-sex marriage on Tuesday, after a second Republican state senator came forward to support the measure, leaving it a single vote shy of passage.
Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has signed a license agreement with Apple, settling all patent litigation between the companies. The two firms´ lawyers had been trading blows since October 2009.
As clients seek to cut costs, the field of ´contract´ attorneys expands.
The results of a survey released today by law-firm consultants Altman Weil Inc. found that nearly all law firms had increased or planned to increase the fees that they charge clients this year.
French lawmakers have rejected a bill presented by the opposition Socialist Party seeking to legalize same-sex marriage.
Fines issued to almost 300 smokers for lighting up in cars with children have not been worth the paper they are written on, thanks to a legal loophole.
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