In a bid to draw a line under the scandal that ruined his career and his marriage, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has reached a financial settlement with the hotel maid who accused him of sexually assaulting her.
Standard Chartered agreed to pay $327 million in penalties for alleged violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran, Libya and other nations, closing another chapter in the U.S. crackdown on banks sidestepping restrictions meant to prevent money laundering.
The nation´s largest banks are facing a fresh torrent of lawsuits asserting that they sold shoddy mortgage securities that imploded during the financial crisis, potentially adding significantly to the tens of billions of dollars the banks have already paid to settle other cases.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a preliminary ruling invalidating "the Steve Jobs patent," which covers several key multitouch features — including scrolling — at the heart of iOS.
Japan, Asia´s largest beef buyer, suspended imports from Brazil after a cow in Parana state tested positive for mad-cow disease.
An internal European Union analysis has determined that two Chinese makers of wireless network equipment, Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., are inflicting damage on European producers by dumping products onto the European market at rock-bottom prices.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. became the latest top Wall Street bank to suffer a trading-related black eye, agreeing to pay $1.5 million to settle civil charges that it failed to supervise a former trader.
A Florida man sued NBC on Thursday, saying the network intentionally edited and repeatedly aired a non-emergency phone call he made to police before shooting and killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin "to create the myth" that he was a racist.
The state of California has fired the opening shot in its fight to get mobile apps to comply with state privacy laws.
If she wants a second term, Dilma Rousseff should get a new economic team.
Legal marijuana possession becomes a reality under Washington state law on Thursday, and some people planned to celebrate the new law by breaking it.
U.K. pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Thursday lost its appeal of a European court ruling that said it used anticompetitive tactics to prevent less-expensive copies of its popular heartburn pill Losec from entering the market, the European Union´s top court said.
HSBC Holdings Plc might pay a fine of $1.8 billion as part of a settlement with U.S. law-enforcement agencies over money-laundering lapses, according to several people familiar with the matter.
The editors of Britain´s principal national newspapers met Wednesday under pressure from Prime Minister David Cameron and agreed to the establishment of an independent newspaper regulator with far greater powers than those available to the existing watchdog.
A village council in eastern India has banned woman from using mobile phones, saying they "pollute the social atmosphere" by encouraging women to elope with lovers.
Stuart Hall, the former It´s A Knockout presenter, has been charged with sexually assaulting three girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
Former Thai leader Abhisit Vejjajiva faces charges over the death of a taxi driver shot by soldiers during mass protests in Bangkok in 2010.
Even as the National Academy of Sciences warns about the dangers of chemical dispersants to clean oil spills, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier has dismissed all claims in the BP oil spill case against Nalco, the maker of the dispersant that was used in unprecedented quantities to combat the 2010 BP spill.
Last December, the mobile phone site PhoneDog sued former employee Noah Kravitz when he left the company, alleging that he took as many as 17,000 of its Twitter followers with him. PhoneDog estimated each follower was worth $2.50, money it wanted back.
The Walt Disney Co. was ordered to pay the British creator of the television game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" $319 million after a Los Angeles court rejected the company´s request for a new trial.
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