Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joanne O´Donnell has cut by roughly half a $40 million defamation jury award against Girls Gone Wild mogul Joe Francis for defaming Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn.
UK lawmakers criticized executives of Starbucks, Google and Amazon on Monday for not paying more tax in Britain, and Amazon said it had received a $252 million demand for back taxes from France.
Google Inc. is being pressed by U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz to offer to resolve the agency´s antitrust probe in the next few days or face a lawsuit, two people familiar with the matter said.
Two Dutch teenagers were sentenced to two years in juvenile detention and three years of compulsory therapy on Monday for ordering the death of a girl after an argument on Facebook.
Brazil has been elected to the UN Human Rights Council.
George Entwistle has taken responsibility as the BBC´s editor-in-chief for what Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, said was "unacceptable shoddy journalism" that exposed a former Tory peer to false allegations of paedophilia.
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Friday preliminarily approved a proposed settlement of $7.2 billion between merchants and Visa and Mastercard, which would be the largest settlement ever made in an antitrust case.
Apple Inc. and HTC Corp. announced a broad ten-year licensing agreement that settles all of the lawsuits between the companies around the world.
Greece has moved a step away from bankruptcy with parliament´s approval of new reforms, but its debt pile still threatens its solvency and its international creditors have yet to agree even how big it is.
Judges furious over ´lackadaisical´ compliance with order to publicise acknowledgements that South Korean firm did not infringe designs.
The narrow loss of the Proposition 34 referendum is a temporary setback. Public opinion is shifting against capital punishment.
A U.S. Army private facing court-martial for allegedly leaking secret documents to the WikiLeaks website has offered to plead guilty to less serious offenses than those with which he has been charged, his lawyer said.
Generic drugs firms may start producing versions of Viagra in Canada after a court ruled Pfizer´s patent was invalid.
BP Plc and the lead lawyers representing victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill will ask a judge today to approve a proposed $7.8 billion partial settlement of claims, while attorneys for thousands of plaintiffs seek rejection or modification of the agreement.
A U.S. lawsuit has been filed against Hyundai Motor Co and affiliate Kia Motors Corp, seeking $775 million in damages in one of the biggest known actions against the automakers since they admitted overstating the fuel economy of some their vehicles.
Tammy Baldwin made history Tuesday night -- twice. She became the first openly gay politician, and first Wisconsin woman, elected to the U.S. Senate.
France´s Socialist government has approved a bill to legalise same-sex marriage and allow gay couples to adopt.
Prosecutors in Munich are expected to decide in the coming weeks whether to charge Formula One Group Chief Executive Bernie Ecclestone with bribery, The Wall Street Journal reported.
On Thursday, November 8, BrasilAgro, one of the largest owners and operators of farmland in Brazil, and the first Brazilian agricultural company to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), will visit the exchange to celebrate the company´s listing on the NYSE.
Citigroup Inc. disclosed in its quarterly financial filing Tuesday that the Monetary Authority of Singapore has launched an inquiry into its practices involving the setting of global interest rates.
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