APR
27
2012

Hundreds march against Arizona immigration law

A few hundred protesters, some toting placards reading "no to racial profiling," marched through downtown Phoenix on Wednesday to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to block Arizona´s two-year-old crackdown on illegal immigrants.

APR
26
2012

Coca-Cola recommends 2-for-1 stock split; shares at 14-year high

Coca-Cola´s board of directors recommended a two-for-one stock split today, the first split for the company in 16 years.

APR
26
2012

Judge delivers Charles Taylor Sierra Leone atrocities verdict

International judges have begun giving a verdict in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

APR
26
2012

Coco Rocha condemns Elle Brazil for violating her no-nudity policy

Canadian model Coco Rocha alleges that Elle Brazil airbrushed out a nude bodysuit in contravention of her strict no-nudity policy.

APR
26
2012

N.Y. judge refuses to dismiss Brazilian kickback case

Brazilian congressman Paulo Maluf lost a bid to dismiss charges filed against him in New York in 2007 for allegedly stealing $11.6m from a Brazilian public works project when he was mayor of Sao Paulo.

APR
26
2012

US embassy faces legal action over Brazilian ex-prostitute hit by van

Romilda Aparecida Ferreira says she was left seriously injured outside strip club by embassy van picking up US marines.

APR
25
2012

Change of tone could help Google in European antitrust case

For the past two years, Google has worked hard to avoid facing formal antitrust charges in Europe that could mean years of expensive litigation and encourage the authorities in other parts of the world to take comparable action.

APR
25
2012

Facebook fight in Germany leads to battle over privacy

Ariane Friedrich, a German Olympic high-jump hopeful, knows how to pull a tough face, a gun and, it seems, a fast one on a fan who sent her an obscene message over Facebook.

APR
25
2012

Why Shakespeare is … Brazilian

In the first of a new series celebrating the World Shakespeare festival in collaboration with the RSC, director Renato Rocha explains why there´s no one like the Bard when it comes to analysing Brazilian politics.

APR
25
2012

Should all cigarettes have plain packaging?

The Government has agreed in principle to stub out the brightly-coloured branding of cigarette packets - just as tobacco companies´ court actions to overturn Australia´s plain-packet law are getting under way.

APR
25
2012

Brazil Congress delays forest vote law amid wrangling

The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has delayed voting on controversial legislation that stipulates how much land farmers must preserve as forest.

APR
24
2012

California to put death penalty repeal on November ballot

An initiative to repeal California´s death penalty qualified Monday for the November ballot after receiving 500,000 signatures.

APR
24
2012

Obama order allows sanctions for using technology to violate human rights

US President Barack Obama on Monday issued an executive order that will allow the US to impose sanctions on foreign nationals who have used technology to participate in violation of human rights.

APR
24
2012

Future of frozen Megaupload data to be decided

Talks in the US over what to do with the 28 petabytes of frozen Megaupload data will begin this Thursday.

APR
24
2012

Iceland ex-PM Haarde ´partly´ guilty over 2008 crisis

Former Icelandic PM Geir Haarde has been found not guilty of negligence over the 2008 financial crisis that saw the island´s economy go into meltdown.

APR
24
2012

Actor dies after accidentally hanging himself as Judas during The Passion of Christ

A Brazilian actor has died after accidentally hanging himself while portraying Judas during a scene in "The Passion of Christ".

APR
23
2012

YouTube loses court battle over music clips

YouTube could face a huge bill for royalties after it lost a court battle in Germany over music videos.

APR
23
2012

Nestle to buy Pfizer´s nutrition business for $11.9bn

The Swiss food giant Nestlé agreed on Monday to buy Pfizer’s infant nutrition business for $11.9bn in a move to expand the company’s presence in the global baby food market.

APR
23
2012

Court vacates death sentence due to racial bias

A North Carolina judge on Friday commuted a man´s death sentence to a sentence of life in prison without parole after he determined that racial bias was a major influence behind the original sentence 18 years ago.

APR
23
2012

Council of Europe announces ECHR reforms agreement

The 47 member states composing the Council of Europe on Friday agreed to a declaration that will bring new changes to the ECHR - European Court of Human Rights in order to make it more efficient.

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