Appeal by jailed former prime minister against her conviction for abuse of office thrown out as president refuses to intervene.
The British government says its foreign minister has discussed the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with Ecuadorean Vice President Lenin Moreno in London.
The New York Times Co. is girding for a legal battle that many larger organisations have avoided.
Lawyers for a young Army private accused of leaking a trove of classified information to the website WikiLeaks said Tuesday that military prosecutors have withheld hundreds of emails related to his pretrial detention at a Marine Corps brig.
An angry Oregon patient who was allegedly advised to wear braces for 11 years is suing his dentist for the cost to fix his now-rotten teeth.
The legal headaches at HSBC may not go away anytime soon, and when they do, the resolutions could be costly.
Federal securities regulators charged eight people in Georgia with insider trading on Tuesday, saying they bought stock in a company ahead of a merger announcement after one of them learned about a pending deal.
Twitter has escalated the legal battle over an Occupy Wall Street protester´s tweets, challenging a judge´s ruling requiring him to hand over his tweets and account information to prosecutors.
Aliaksandr Barankov, whose case attracted attention after Quito granted Julian Assange asylum, to be freed from jail.
A Russian opposition activist has been jailed for possession of heroin for eight years - double the sentence requested by the prosecution.
A notary in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo has sparked controversy by accepting a civil union between three people.
PepsiCo Inc. and two other energy- drink makers are being investigated by the New York attorney general over their marketing practices, according to a person familiar with the probe.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit yesterday barred a company that streams live TV shows over the Internet from continuing to transmit the programming, finding that to hold otherwise would "destabilize [an] entire industry" and inflict irreparable damage on the networks.
A group of campaigners in the Irish Republic has been refused a legal challenge over the first trial of a genetically modified potato crop.
While three members of the Russian punk collective Pussy Riot have been imprisoned on "hooliganism" charges, at least two others have reportedly fled the country to escape similar prosecution.
Apple on Monday asked a federal judge to block the sale of more than a half dozen Samsung smartphones, after a jury found on Friday that Samsung had infringed a series of Apple’s mobile patents.
Cyclist Lance Armstrong will be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life after refusing to fight drug allegations by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
HSBC Holdings Plc, which is under investigation by U.S. regulators for laundering funds of sanctioned nations including Iran and Sudan, is in talks to settle the matter, two people with knowledge of the case said.
Pfizer Inc has settled a lawsuit accusing Impax Laboratories Inc of infringing patents covering the overactive bladder drug Detrol LA.
Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes made threats as his academic career deteriorated and he accumulated an arsenal before a shooting rampage that killed 12 people at a suburban Denver movie theater last month, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
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