A court ruled Wednesday that a Nizhny Novgorod resident who claimed that a McDonald´s hamburger gave him a bout of food poisoning can collect $50 and enough money to buy another hamburger.
A gang of drug traffickers is inserting pictures of Amy Winehouse in their bags of cocaine to improve sales, Brazilian police have said.
Police say 21-year-old actor Kiowa Gordon, who plays a werewolf in the "Twilight" movie series, has been released from jail. He was picked up on Monday by Tempe, Ariz., police on warrants for failing to appear on a misdemeanor drunken driving and drug charge.
Authorities say an actor who plays a werewolf in the "Twilight" movie series has been arrested in Arizona on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Facebook has begun closing the accounts of California prison inmates after a convicted child molester viewed the pages of his victim from behind bars, authorities and the social networking site said.
A beautiful Brazilian soap star has the lead role in her own daytime drama, which casts George Soros, the billionaire financier of lefty causes, as a heavy who not only broke her heart, but also reneged on a promise to give her an Upper East Side apartment worth $1.9m.
A family has 10 days to remove chickens from their backyard after a judge has ruled against them.
A German court has temporarily barred Samsung Electronics from selling its flagship Galaxy tablet in most of the European Union in a significant victory for market leader Apple Inc.
Johnson & Johnson said it reached an agreement to settle a misdemeanor criminal charge related to marketing of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, labeled by prosecutors as the "face of illegal insider trading," should spend as long as 24 years and five months in prison, the U.S. told the judge who will sentence him.
Christian Louboutin SA lost a court bid to stop Yves Saint Laurent America from selling women´s shoes that Louboutin claims are identical to its trademarked red-sole footwear.
The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday announced it would lift emergency laws that have been in place for 30 years, though Parliament would renew some provisions temporarily.
Brazilian police have arrested more than 30 tourism officials and business leaders, including Deputy Tourism Minister Frederico Silva da Costa.
Tatiara mayor Richard Vickery put his reputation above the care of his livestock - and it cost him $20,000.
A snake handler has been slammed after letting normally deadly snakes bite his 10-year-old daughter to prove they are de-venomised and safe.
Law moves country closer to joining France, Belgium and parts of Spain in outlawing face-covering in public.
Hotel housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo filed a civil lawsuit Monday against her alleged attacker Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
A jury this morning convicted all five New Orleans police officers accused in the Danziger Bridge shootings, which took place amid the chaos after Hurricane Katrina and claimed the lives of two civilians, and a cover-up of startling scope that lasted almost five years.
Standard & Poor´s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers for the first time on Friday night, a downgrade that is freighted with symbolic significance but carries few clear financial implications.
The American International Group sued Bank of America on Monday over hundreds of mortgage-backed securities, adding to the surge of investors seeking compensation for the troubled mortgages that led to the financial crisis.
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