Carrefour SA, the world´s second largest retailer, will be fined after local inspectors found a store in northern China had charged consumers incorrect prices, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $5 million to settle allegations that one of its highest-profile investment bankers tried to "improperly influence" research analysts days before Facebook Inc. went public in May.
Google Inc. is poised to offer voluntary concessions that will end a 20-month U.S. antitrust probe of its business practices without any enforcement action being taken, two people familiar with the matter said.
Chevron is willing to pay about 300 million reais to settle lawsuits in Brazil over an oil spill last year.
A jury Friday handed down a $24-million verdict against the Los Angeles Police Department for the shooting of a teenage boy who was playing with a replica gun. His injury left him paralyzed.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill that brings American trade relations with Russia into the 21st century but also ushers in a testy era in which the United States could publicly "name and shame" Russian human rights violators.
Mexico´s state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, is suing German conglomerate Siemens AG and South Korea´s SK Engineering & Construction Co. for as much as $1.5 billion in a U.S. district court for allegedly using bribery to win a 1997 refinery contract and to keep it after serious cost overruns, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
Euro-zone governments capped another tumultuous year on Thursday with deals to more tightly control their biggest banks and keep their bailout of Greece on track, but face a new set of challenges in 2013.
Dutch city becomes first in the Netherlands to forbid use of drug in playgrounds and schools under a public nuisance ordinance.
A ban on the display of cigarettes in Scotland´s shops will come into force in April 2013 after a tobacco firm lost its legal fight to stop the move.
Google Inc. is close to settling allegations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it violated antitrust law by trying to block access to key smartphone-technology covered by patents it owns, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Members of a family that invested in Bernard Madoff´s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme can only file insurance claims for the actual losses they suffered, not the losses shown on Madoff´s fraudulent account statements, a New York state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court appointed a Harvard Law School professor on Tuesday to argue whether the court can rule on the validity of a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning´s defense attorney argued Tuesday that the soldier´s former jailers at the Marine Corps brig at Quantico mistreated him to protect themselves from recriminations over their high-profile prisoner.
The Conservatives´ turmoil over David Cameron´s plans for gay marriage has been compounded after Ukip pledged to exploit their divisions and go after the votes of Tories who abandon the party over the issue.
The Australian radio station behind a prank call to a British hospital will donate its advertising revenue until the end of the year to a fund for the family of the nurse who apparently took her own life after the stunt, the company said on Tuesday.
U.S. authorities announced a $1.9 billion fine against British bank HSBC Holdings Tuesday for failed antimoney-laundering controls they said allowed drug proceeds and transactions from sanctioned nations to flow through the U.S. financial system.
A Pennsylvania woman has accused Google of illegal wiretapping for "intercepting" emails she sent to Gmail accounts and publishing content-related ads.
Hundreds of popular smartphone and tablet apps aimed at children are collecting personal data and sharing it without informing parents, a new federal study said Monday.
Mario Monti is off, and Silvio Berlusconi hopes to return. This news was bound to rattle markets, even if it only means elections will come a couple of months earlier than previously planned and even if Berlusconi´s chances of winning are slight
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