Avon Products Inc. has fired its vice chairman and former chief financial officer in the latest move related to a long-running investigation involving possible bribes overseas and its disclosures to Wall Street analysts.
The Cabinet of the Netherlands announced on Friday that a ban on burqas in the Netherlands will go forward later this year. The ban, proposed in September and heavily supported by Geert Wilders´ anti-Islam Freedom Party, is aimed at prohibiting burqas and other face coverings.
HRW - Human Rights Watch expressed concern Friday over aging men and women becoming the most rapidly growing group in US prisons and the ability of officials to provide appropriate housing and medical care to these individuals.
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday ordered that a travel ban imposed upon the former ambassador to the US is to be lifted.
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A jury has found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honour" in a case that shocked and riveted Canadians.
The European Court of Justice will be empowered to impose sanctions to fiscally wayward countries under a new accord supported by the majority of European Union countries, according to the latest draft of the fiscal compact.
Former Haitian dictator Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier will face trial for corruption during his 15-year rule, but not for human rights abuses, the judge handling the case said on Monday.
A civil lawsuit against several large tech companies over anti-poaching agreements will move forward, but may be broken up into multiple potential class actions.
European leaders were told by policy makers, bankers and academics from around the world that it´s time to end the region´s debt crisis and measures aimed at simply containing it are no longer enough.
Greece has rejected outright German proposals for the EU to hold power over its budget.
Law firms are finally starting to recover from the recession, but they aren´t taking their young lawyers along for the ride.
As Facebook readies for an initial public offering, its lawyers are pressing the pause button on the trading process for shares of the social networking giant.
Every one of the people who made up the jury in the 2010 trial of the man who killed Chandra Levy had heard about the missing and murdered former federal intern long before they were selected, according to newly released court documents.
HSBC Holdings PLC is under investigation by a U.S. Senate panel in a money-laundering inquiry, the latest step in a long-running U.S. effort to halt shadowy money flows through global banks, according to people familiar with the situation and a company securities filing.
A New Bedford woman was sentenced yesterday to two years of probation, including four months under home confinement, for entering into three sham marriages between 2004 and 2006 to help three Brazilian nationals attain permanent legal residence in the US.
Until now, Twitter´s not had the ability to censor certain tweets or accounts, to prevent them from being seen — if legally required — by users in particular countries.
The owner of a French breast implant maker at the centre of a safety scare has been arrested in southern France.
Two men connected to German millionaire Kim Dotcom have been granted bail.
Apple again lost a bid on Tuesday to have Samsung tablet computers banned in the Netherlands in a Dutch appeals case over infringing copyrights of its iPad tablet computer.
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