The official recovering funds for Bernard Madoff´s swindled investors is suing several international firms for a total of $187.5m.
Soon after Spain´s real-estate bust put Andrés Velarde and María Palencia out of work, the young architects gathered their drafting materials and moved 5,000 miles to Brazil—drawn by a hope, but no promise, of employment.
A Brazilian man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl on a cruise ship is being held in the Broward County Jail without bail.
The low prices of our iPhones and iPads — and the super-high profit margins of Apple — are only possible because our iPhones and iPads are made with labor practices that would be illegal in the US.
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that employment-discrimination laws don´t protect ministers, finding that churches have a constitutional right to decide who preaches their faith without government review.
President Dilma Rousseff has ordered the public health system and health insurance companies to pay for the replacement of ruptured breast implants made in France, even if they were implanted for aesthetic reasons.
American Honda Motor Co won a legal victory as a divided U.S. appeals court on Thursday said a nationwide lawsuit over a brake system used in some Acura RL vehicles should not have been certified as a class-action.
The rock group The Velvet Underground filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to stop its iconic Andy Warhol-designed banana being used on covers for iPads, iPhones or other items.
The US Army analyst suspected of passing classified information to Wikileaks should face a court martial, a military tribunal has recommended.
The market for orange juice futures received another jolt after the federal government said some Brazilian imports contained a potentially harmful fungicide.
A defendant in a courtroom in Dachau near Munich has shot dead a state prosecutor. The man was accused of failing to pay money he owed the social security system on behalf of his employees.
Detectives say there´s nothing to suggest that her death while sailing off Santa Catalina Island in 1981 was anything but accidental.
Nice try, but no dice. The European competition authority has effectively scuttled a planned $17bn merger between NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse, recommending the deal be blocked on antitrust concerns.
Eastman Kodak Co. sued mobile phone and tablet makers Apple Inc. and HTC Corp. for patent infringement on Tuesday, just days after news surfaced that the venerable photography innovator was contemplating Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Nine Chinese writers sued Apple Inc for violating copyright and demanded compensation totaling 12 million yuan ($1.9m).
Brazilian-based aircraft manufacturer Embraer SA won an important victory in late December, when the U.S. Air Force picked one of its planes to equip Afghanistan´s military.
The Obama administration said Friday that it would make it easier for illegal immigrants who are related to a U.S. citizen to seek legal U.S. residency, a rule change hailed by immigrant advocates and lambasted by those who favor strict policing of the borders.
Japan´s Olympus Corp has sued its current president and three ex-directors for several million dollars in compensation, sources told Reuters on Monday, as the company seeks to draw a line under one of the nation´s worst accounting scandals.
The United States has declared Venezuela´s consul general in Miami persona non grata and said she must leave the country by Tuesday.
Switzerland´s top central banker has been forced to resign after admitting he could not prove a controversial $500,000 (£324,067) currency trade made by his wife was done without his knowledge.
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