A court in eastern China sentenced Bo Xilai -- the former rising star of the ruling Communist Party who fell from power amid a scandal involving murder, betrayal and financial skullduggery -- to life in prison Sunday.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) released a previously classified opinion on Tuesday explaining why a National Security Agency (NSA) program to keep records of Americans´ phone calls is constitutional.
The Brazil Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 6-5 that 12 former political and business leaders found guilty in the nation´s biggest corruption trial have the right to a new trial.
Scheme, which may be implemented as soon as spring 2015, expected to meet resistance, as 80% of inmates smoke.
US lawmakers have narrowly voted to cut food stamp benefits from next year despite a veto threat from the White House and opposition by lobby groups.
Sanofi agreed to pay $40 million to settle a lawsuit by investors who alleged they were misled about the likelihood that the company´s Zimulti weight-loss drug would win regulatory approval.
Professional network LinkedIn Corp. was sued by customers alleging it appropriated their identities for marketing the site to nonmembers without their consent by hacking into their external e-mail accounts and downloading contacts´ addresses.
A British holidaymaker racked up a staggering £20,000 mobile phone bill after she used her internet to upload holiday snaps to Facebook.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., seeking to end probes of a $6.2 billion trading debacle, admitted to violating federal securities laws and agreed to pay about $920 million for failing to implement adequate controls and providing incomplete information to regulators and its board.
In a dispute stemming from a lengthy legal battle over Amazon rain forest pollution, arbitrators ruled that Chevron had already settled claims for damages in agreements with Ecuador despite a $19 billion award against the oil company.
´Mini-Miss´ pageant organisers face fines and prison sentences as parliament addresses ´hypersexualisation´ of under-16s.
It turns out that the Federal Reserve is not quite ready to let go of its extra efforts to help the economy grow.
Allies of the former prime minister and convicted fraudster had tried to block his disqualification from public office, but this was voted down.
Regulators proposed a rule on Wednesday that would require publicly traded companies to disclose the difference between the pay of chief executives and their employees, an effort to make compensation more transparent that has generated controversy and confusion.
Multibillion dollar case heard Wednesday ensued between two pharmaceutical companies over Aids treatment price increase.
Charitable sector faces dilemma of how to continue helping vulnerable people as funding for many cases dries up.
Using Facebook Inc.´s "Like" feature to show support for a candidate in an election is speech protected under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said, handing a victory to the social networking company which argued such protection is vital to its business.
UBS Securities Japan Co. was sentenced after pleading guilty last year to wire fraud linked to the manipulation of benchmark rates including the yen Libor.
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is expected to announce an end to the central bank´s extraordinary stimulus efforts.
Jerry Sandusky, the ex-Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for abusing boys, is seeking to reverse his conviction, claiming he didn´t get a fair trial.
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