A mother of two sits in jail Monday unable to post bail after being put behind bars for the 1991 theft of a pack of cigarettes.
A Canadian man has opened fire in a Philippine court, killing two people and wounding another, reports say.
Atari Inc., the New York interactive entertainment and licensing company with a portfolio of more than 200 videogames, Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with plans to sell all its assets.
President Obama made strong statements Monday in his inaugural address in support of gay marriage, leaving gay rights supporters hopeful that his words will translate into Supreme Court action.
Kim Dotcom, the larger-than-life personality accused by the U.S. of operating a website used to pirate half a billion dollars in entertainment, introduced a new version of his controversial file-storage service on Sunday.
As an ex-presidential consultant, a former adviser to the World Bank, a financial researcher for the United Nations and a professor in the US, Artur Baptista da Silva´s outspoken attacks on Portugal´s austerity cuts made the bespectacled 61-year-old one of the country´s leading media pundits last year.
In an effort to make sure people receive fair trials in these social media-crazed times, a local appeals court is asking the Florida Supreme Court to decide whether judges should step down from cases if they are Facebook friends with the prosecutor.
Toyota Motor Corp. has settled what was to be the first in a group of hundreds of pending wrongful death and injury lawsuits involving sudden, unintended acceleration by Toyota vehicles, a company spokesman said Thursday.
Tim Cook, Apple´s chief executive officer, was ordered to give a deposition in a lawsuit claiming the iPhone maker and other technology companies violated antitrust laws by entering into agreements to not recruit each other´s employees.
Spain´s government on Thursday launched a social housing plan offering properties at low rents to some families who have been evicted from their homes.
Beef Products Inc, the meat processor suing ABC News over reports about its beef product that was labeled "pink slime" by critics, wants the case to be moved out of the federal judicial system and back to a South Dakota state court.
A Dutch court, citing previous decisions in British courts, has ruled that some Samsung Electronics Galaxy tablets do not infringe an Apple design.
The initiative to reduce gun violence announced by President Obama on Wednesday includes both legislative proposals that would need to be acted on by Congress and executive actions he can do on his own.
A battle for snack supremacy isn´t being fought over who makes the best shortbread cookies, but instead over the packaging they come in.
Maria Alyokhina, 24, had asked to serve the rest of her two-year sentence when her five-year-old son was older.
The widow of a victim killed in last year´s Colorado movie theater shooting is suing the accused gunman´s psychiatrist and the university where she works.
After seven years of legal appeals and accusations that Christians are being persecuted for their beliefs, the European court of human rights has ruled that a British Airways check-in operator should not have been prevented from wearing a cross at work.
Police in New York City plan to combat the theft of painkillers and other highly addictive prescription medicines by asking pharmacies around the city to hide fake pill bottles fitted with GPS devices amid the legitimate supplies on their shelves.
Anyone caught throwing snowballs at vehicles, houses or people who don´t want to get involved could be arrested for anti-social behaviour, a County Durham neighbourhood policing team has said.
A former Austrian interior minister and Euro MP, Ernst Strasser, has been sentenced to four years in jail after being convicted of bribe-taking.
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