Siberian authorities ban protest by 100 Kinder Surprise toys, 100 Lego people, 20 model soldiers, 15 soft toys and 10 toy cars.
A Brazilian newspaper editor who campaigned against corruption in Mato Grosso do Sul state has been shot dead, police say.
Italian prosecutors launched an appeal on Tuesday against the acquittal of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend for the brutal murder of British student Meredith Kercher in the university town of Perugia.
The UN envoy for Children and Armed Conflict on Monday urged all nations to ratify a treaty protocol that would criminalize recruitment of child soldiers and set the minimum age of recruitment at 18.
During her first year as Brazil´s president, Dilma Rousseff was careful not to make changes so big that they might be seen as a rebuke to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, her predecessor and patron.
Four months after one of Japan´s biggest corporate scandals, police and prosecutors on Thursday arrested seven men, including the former president of Olympus Corp and ex-bankers, over their role in a $1.7bn accounting fraud at the medical equipment and camera maker.
The Kellogg Company said on Wednesday that it would buy Pringles for about $2.7bn in cash, swooping in on the snack company after an earlier agreement with Diamond Foods fell apart.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called a referendum on a new constitution for Feb. 26 amid an escalating conflict between his army and opposition groups.
A video that seems to show Vladimir Putin going on trial but is in fact a cleverly-edited collage became an internet hit in Russia on Wednesday with two million views ahead of presidential polls.
Italian prosecutors have called for Silvio Berlusconi to be sent to prison for five years for allegedly bribing David Mills, his former tax advisor and the estranged husband of ex-Cabinet minister Tessa Jowell.
A federal judge rejected Guess Inc´s bid to dismiss a trademark infringement lawsuit by Italian luxury goods company Gucci.
Dozens of additional survivors of the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy have joined a Florida lawsuit that accuses the ship´s owners of gross negligence and fraud, and asks for at least $528m in damages.
Netflix has paid $9m (£5.7m) dollars to settle a privacy-related legal action, a financial filing has revealed.
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signed legislation [HB 6239] Monday legalizing same-sex marriage, making Washington the eighth jurisdiction in the US to offer marriage to same-sex couples.
The OPEN Act was formally introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 18, 2012. This version includes user-generated improvements to the draft version.
President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to enact new taxes on the wealthy, restructure the tax code and approve short-term spending measures as part of an election-year budget plan aimed at boosting job growth and helping the middle class.
Federal prosecutors investigating whether U.S. executives at Avon Products Inc. broke foreign-bribery laws have presented evidence in the probe to a grand jury, people familiar with the matter said.
A Palestinian prisoner who human rights organisations say may be "approaching death" after 58 days on hunger strike has lost his appeal against an order holding him for four months without trial.
Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook "friends" to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state´s interior minister.
Pakistan´s Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, was today charged with contempt in the country´s Supreme Court after refusing to reopen corruption cases against the president.
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