The US government says it will continue its case against BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill despite a deal the company reached on Friday with the largest group of private claimants.
Brazilian police said on Wednesday they arrested a man for forgery when he tried to open a bank account using an identification document with a photo of actor Jack Nicholson.
A federal rule that requires tobacco companies to display pictures of diseased lungs or other graphic images on cigarette packs is unconstitutional, a judge in Washington ruled Wednesday.
Changes made by Google to its privacy policy are in breach of European law, the EU´s justice commissioner has said.
A federal judge in Montana apologized Wednesday for forwarding an email with a racist joke directed at President Barack Obama. The the judge said passed along the joke because it was "anti-Obama," not because he is a racist.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled today that a police search of a cell phone for its number, without a warrant, is permissible. Police had retrieved the phone in question from the scene of a drug sale and later used it to subpoena phone records.
Parchment documents relating to Galileo´s heresy trial, the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and Henry VIII´s divorce will go on display today in an unprecedented exhibition of 100 documents from the Vatican Secret Archives.
Are China´s police hamstrung by a lack of power to detain national-security suspects?
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was criticised on Wednesday for playing Sudoku on a small computer during a crucial parliamentary debate on Greece, becoming a lightning rod for the growing opposition in Germany to the latest bailout.
The European Commission has warned eight countries to increase energy competition or face legal action at the ECJ - European Court of Justice.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered his government to draft a new law punishing denial of the Armenian genocide after a top court struck down a previous bill.
Apple just scored an important victory in its ongoing patent battle with Motorola Mobility.
Monsanto Co has won another round in a long-standing patent dispute with chief rival Pioneer Hi-Bred International, as a federal appellate court on Tuesday upheld Monsanto´s ownership of a patent on transgenic corn.
As Yahoo struggles to keep up with younger competitors, the Web portal company is weighing a new tactic: threatening legal action over its patent holdings.
The artist who created an iconic portrait of Barack Obama based on an Associated Press image pleaded guilty on Friday to a criminal misdemeanor charge, admitting he lied about which image he had used.
HSBC said on Monday it will likely face criminal or civil charges from an expanding investigation into its ties to allegedly illegal money transactions, including some tied to Iran.
The United Nations doubts the credibility of the constitutional referendum held in Syria amid "pervasive violence," a UN spokesman said Monday.
Singer Charlotte Church and her parents settled her phone-hacking damages action against the publishers of the now defunct News of the World for 600,000 pounds at the High Court on Monday
No news really is good news, at least as far as BP´s long-suffering shareholders are concerned.
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit on Friday from the EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center, a consumer privacy group, asking the FTC - Federal Trade Commission to block Google´s proposed privacy policy changes.
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