Prisons may force-feed inmates on hunger strikes because the state´s obligation to protect the health of its citizens trumps the prisoner´s right to make medical choices, an appellate court has ruled.
The producers of Broadway´s version of "Spider-Man" filed a countersuit against the musical´s ousted director Julie Taymor on Tuesday, accusing her of jeopardizing the production by not caring about ticket sales.
Vocal critics of the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and Protect IP Act (PIPA), quickly showed their opposition to the shutdown of Megaupload.com, with hackers attacking the public websites of the Justice Department, the world´s largest music company Universal Music, and the two big trade groups that represent the music and film industries.
Rupert Murdoch´s media empire apologized and agreed to cash payouts Thursday to 37 people — including a movie star, a soccer player, a top British politician and the son of a serial killer — who were harassed and phone-hacked by his tabloid press.
Eastman Kodak Co. filed for bankruptcy protection early Thursday morning, after the film pioneer failed to raise fresh cash to fund a long-sputtering turnaround, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Bank of Nova Scotia said Wednesday it closed its acquisition of 51% of Colombian bank Banco Colpatria, a cash and stock deal it said was worth about US$1bn when it announced it in October.
A top French prosecutor close to President Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under investigation for illegally spying on a French reporter investigating the Bettencourt affair.
Industry and Foreign Trade minister Fernando Pimentel expressed on Wednesday the Brazilian government´s deep disappointment with the latest Argentine legislation to be implemented on trade saying that Argentina is "a permanent problem".
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang announced late yesterday he was resigning from Yahoo´s board, ending a 17-year reign at the Internet company that began back in his Stanford University graduate school days in the mid-1990s.
Baltasar Garzon, the Spanish judge who famously indicted late Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet, has found himself in the dock for the first time.
A series of laws and a new constitution which came into force on 1 January in Hungary have encountered widespread criticism.
Go to Wikipedia at midnight, and you won´t find any of the usual encyclopedia articles.
Iran´s morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said on Monday.
A housemate on Brazil´s version of Big Brother has been raped live on TV, it has been alleged.
The growing anti-SOPA support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today.
The California Labor Commissioner is suing a prominent workplace-discrimination law firm in Los Angeles, alleging that it fired an employee after she told the firm that she had been called to serve on a jury.
Motorola Mobility Inc did not violate Apple´s patented technology in making its Droid, Cliq, BackFlip and other smartphones, a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a preliminary decision issued on Friday.
The Economist´s Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity: in the long run, exchange rates should adjust to equal the price of a basket of goods and services in different countries.
Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, published "Why Smart Executives Fail" 8 years ago.
For the first time, Indian prosecutors are taking Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other networking sites to court for refusing to remove material considered insulting to Indian leaders and major religious figures.
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