Senior officials from around 60 countries will meet in Paris on Thursday as the "friends of Libya" to secure financial and diplomatic support for the fledgling revolutionary regime.
Attention, shareholders! Is your company is considering a merger? It´s a great time to sue! If you get such a solicitation, think twice.
The number of court cases brought by people who say they have been defamed online has more than doubled in a year, experts have said.
Amnesty International on Friday urged the Brazilian government to revoke the 1979 Amnesty Law, which shields military officials from prosecution for crimes committed during the country´s 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
Rio or São Paulo? Last year Paulo Rezende, a Brazilian private-equity investor, and two partners decided to set up a fund investing in suppliers to oil and gas companies.
President Dilma Rousseff has not been shy about sacking ministers accused of corruption, but with no freedom of information law, progress will be limited.
Facebook said it would roll out new controls for sharing personal information on the social network on Thursday, giving its more than 750 million users new tools to manage who can see information about them.
The women who matter most are politicians, CEOs, bankers, cultural icons, billionaires and entrepreneurs. A fresh look at power as reach and influence.
In patent case, sales of Korean company´s gadgets are barred in European hub, marking a victory for Apple Inc.
Swiss bank UBS said Tuesday that it is reducing its staff by 3,500 jobs, including some reductions in the United States, through a mixture of layoffs and "natural attrition."
Google Inc. has reached a $500m legal settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to avoid prosecution over allegations that it knowingly accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in ads from Canadian online pharmacies.
New York businessman James Lieto was an innocent bystander in a fraud investigation last year. Federal agents seized $392,000 of his cash anyway.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, urged the Brazilian authorities to take immediate action to provide judges, magistrates, prosecutors, public defenders and lawyers with effective and adequate measures of protection.
Hundreds of foreign students, waving their fists and shouting defiantly in many languages, walked off their jobs on Wednesday at a plant here that packs Hershey´s chocolates, saying a summer program that was supposed to be a cultural exchange had instead turned them into underpaid labor.
Standard & Poor´s, the ratings company that downgraded the U.S. AAA credit ranking for the first time, will replace president Deven Sharma with Citibank NA COO Douglas Peterson.
The call came in the morning to the lawyer representing Manuel Guerra, an illegal immigrant from Mexico living in Florida who had been caught in a tortuous and seemingly failing five-year court fight against deportation.
She lied about sex. She lied about money. She even lied about lying. That´s the conclusion of Manhattan prosecutors, who promise they´ll drop "bombshells" in detailing new credibility issues for the hotel maid at the center of the Strauss-Kahn sex-assault case.
Google is expanding its Street View service into some of the world´s most remote places.
After several dynamic years that saw it earn a reputation among some Western investors as "the near China," Brazil now looks to be downshifting into a pattern of economic growth of around 3 percent to 4% for the foreseeable future.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Standard & Poor´s improperly boosted ratings on mortgage securities that later turned out to be toxic, helping trigger the worst financial crisis in decades.
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