The ECJ - European Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled that, under European law, a patent cannot be issued for any process which involves removing a stem cell from and then destroying a human embryo.
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has arrived back in Israel, following his release from five years´ captivity as part of a prisoner deal with Hamas.
L´Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt´s daughter won control over her 88-year-old mother´s business affairs on Monday almost two years after she first asked to take over on the grounds her mother had been exploited.
It´s hardly surprising that Dilma Rousseff, Brazil´s first female President, has placed women in some of her government´s highest positions. Rousseff´s latest opponent is one whom many would have expected to be on her side: Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
Brazilian sports minister Orlando Silva has denied accusations that he was involved in the embezzlement of millions of dollars in public funds.
Pop star Lady Gaga has won an injunction stopping the makers of an online children´s game from promoting an animated character called Lady Goo Goo.
A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed a petition Thursday seeking to annul the residency visa granted to a former leftist rebel from Italy convicted in his homeland of four murders carried out in the late 1970s.
The Ministry of Justice has admitted a private security firm is using black cabs to take prison inmates to court.
Church of England members in Lancashire have voted for legislation that would allow women to become bishops.
A federal judge in Washington is weighing whether to force a Chinese unit of a financial services powerhouse to appear in court in a potential billion-dollar securities fraud investigation.
A South Korean woman has been offered a little over $4 in government compensation for the death of her brother during the 1950-53 Korean War, embarrassing officials who say they were bound by an out-dated law.
A group representing operators of automated teller machines filed a lawsuit against Visa and MasterCard alleging that the credit and debit card issuers violated antitrust laws by fixing the price of ATM access fees.
A former hedge-fund manager has been sentenced to 11 years in jail in New York for one of the biggest insider trading cases in American history.
A Johnson & Johnson unit never warned users of the Levaquin antibiotic that it posed a greater risk of tendon damage than rival medications, a lawyer for two men suing the company said yesterday.
French cosmetic retailer Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmetique can only block Internet sales by some of its product distributors if it can provide a legitimate reason, Europe´s highest court said on Thursday.
Gloria Dwomoh, 31, a nurse from east London, was obsessed with weight of 10-month-old Diamond, court hears.
An Australian court has temporarily banned the sale of Samsung Electronics´ tablet computer in Australia, a victory for Apple in its global patent dispute with the South Korean company.
Germany´s Bayer and its U.S. development partner Onyx have reached a settlement over a contested sister compound to their potential blockbuster cancer drug Nexavar.
Chinese police arrested two Wal-Mart Stores Inc. workers in Chongqing and detained 25 others in a pork mislabeling investigation that has temporarily closed 13 of the retailer´s stores in the southwestern city.
Galleon Group LLC´s Raj Rajaratnam will be sentenced today for masterminding the biggest hedge-fund insider trading scheme in U.S. history, facing a federal judge who has broad discretion in setting his punishment.
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