The US Supreme Court decided Monday not to take on a case to review Louisiana´s ban on same-sex marriage. The ban was upheld by a federal trial judge in New Orleans in September.
Egypt´s high court overturned on Tuesday the only remaining conviction against Hosni Mubarak and ordered a retrial in his embezzlement case.
Cuba has completed the release of all 53 prisoners it had promised to free, the Obama administration said on Monday, a major step toward détente with Washington.
President Barack Obama on Monday said he wants to work with Congress on new laws that would do more to protect Americans´ privacy and the trail of data they leave on smart phones, computers and other devices.
North Korea said on Saturday it was willing to suspend nuclear tests if the United States agreed to call off annual military drills held jointly with South Korea
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, the White House has scheduled an anti-extremism conference that was originally set for last October but was postponed without explanation.
President Barack Obama wants Congress to pass legislation requiring companies to inform customers within 30 days if their data has been hacked,
North and South Korean leaders are proposing different approaches to reduce the potential for military conflict in the region.
Government intervenes in Los Angeles court battle over $400M Bahia Emerald.
A €1bn offer by Fosun International, China’s largest private conglomerate, has won the bidding for control of state-owned Caixa Seguros,
A federal judge in Manhattan dealt a set back on Friday to victims of Haiti’s cholera epidemic who have been seeking to hold the United Nations responsible.
Daily tabloid Hamburger Morgenpost targeted in arson attack after reprinting French magazine Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
As Chinese individuals and companies head overseas in greater numbers, the country’s tax authorities are starting to follow.
More than a million people joined over 40 presidents and prime ministers on the streets of Paris on Sunday in the most striking show of solidarity in the West against the threat of Islamic extremism since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Russia´s lower house passed a law on Tuesday banning gay "propaganda", a measure that human rights groups say has already fuelled attacks on homosexuals.
Honda Motor Co has agreed to pay $70 million to the U.S. government in penalties for failing to report hundreds of injuries.
Authorities in Ohio say they will no longer use a drug combination that caused an inmate to gasp and snort during a 26-minute execution.
Swedish truck maker Volvo Group said Monday it had completed the acquisition of 45 percent of a subsidiary to Chinese motor giant Dongfeng for $893 million.
Big European and American banks have found a productive place to park the energy sector´s most distressed debt: the $2.7 trillion U.S. money market industry.
Philip Morris USA lost an appeal of a $4.93 million award to the widow of a man who said he wouldn’t have started smoking when he was 13 years old in the 1960s if he had known it caused câncer.
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