China´s highest court, the Supreme People´s Court will investigate ways of reducing the number of crimes punishable by death.
Jean-Claude Juncker’s fitness to head the EU’s executive for the next five years came under lacerating attack in the European parliament on Monday evening, with British, French and Italian far-right and populist leaders denouncing his record in facilitating massive corporate tax avoidance when governing Luxembourg for almost two decades.
The corruption scandal at Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4) that has spread to Brazil’s biggest builders is threatening to derail President Dilma Rousseff’s efforts to revive Latin America’s largest economy.
Italy´s top court has overturned an 18-year jail sentence for a Swiss billionaire convicted over his role in the country´s biggest asbestos scandal, saying too much time had passed since the alleged wrongdoing.
The lifeline Barack Obama threw 5 million undocumented immigrants is seen as an exercise of discretion that historically only Congress can check, either through legislation or possibly impeachment.
Amazon customers can select their preferred pickup location during checkout on its website
Global business confidence has slumped to a post financial crisis low.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff´s new, still unconfirmed economic team is preparing budget cuts for 2015 that will be announced next week, newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported on Sunday.
Many people complain bitterly that courts often pay more heed to the whims of officials than to the law. But in the realm of death, it is the law itself that is the problem. The country’s statutes on inheritance remain little changed from the days when few had any property to bequeath.
Italy, France and Germany will face off over how to rebuild euro-area growth when the European Commission passes judgment this week on their draft budgets.
Google, already grappling with privacy and competition issues, risks another EU headache as some lawmakers.
Major clients will have to pay to deposit large amounts of cash at Commerzbank AG in response to negative rates charged by the European Central Bank, the bank said on Thursday.
Executives of three US banks are being grilled by senators over accusations the banks engaged in unfair trading practices relating to several commodities.
Under pressure to show that it is up to the task of regulating giant Wall Street firms, the Federal Reserve issued a surprise announcement on Thursday that it would review crucial aspects of its bank supervision.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved parliament´s lower house on Friday for a snap election seeking a fresh mandate for his struggling "Abenomics".
The billionaire founders of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA) and Tencent Holdings Ltd. said China needs stronger protections for intellectual property if the nation wants to create more of its own online content.
China is planning an environmental makeover on the scale of the political, cultural and market revolutions it has pursued over the past six decades.
Millions of immigrants living illegally in the US will be allowed to apply for work permits under a major shake-up unveiled by President Barack Obama.
Chinese authorities on Friday rejected an appeal against a life sentence by Ilham Tohti, a renowned Uighur scholar jailed on separatism charges. The court also held a closed-door trial for a journalist, Gao Yu, for revealing state secrets.
Jack Ma, the founder of China´s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N), said on Thursday the firm will set up an international version of its e-commerce marketplace Taobao to serve shoppers worldwide in multiple languages, including English and Chinese.
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