JUN
1
2015

Two-year-old boy from ´smoky house´ to be placed for adoption

Child taken from parents’ care over number of concerns, including high levels of cigarette smoke at the family home.

JUN
1
2015

US surveillance powers expire as Senate deal fails

However, the Senate did vote to advance the White House-backed Freedom Act so a new form of data collection is likely to be approved in the coming days.

MAY
29
2015

Uber Broadens Rider Privacy Policy, Asks for New Permissions

The car booking company now more clearly tells its customers it can pretty much track everything they do while using the Uber app.

MAY
29
2015

Supreme Court rules on bankruptcy courts´ authority

In so ruling the Supreme Court reversed and remanded an appellate court decision finding that the bankruptcy court did not have the required constitutional authority to decide whether certain property belonged to the bankruptcy estate because the dispute also involved state laws.

MAY
28
2015

Hollywood studios sued for recycling old movie soundtracks

A new lawsuit claims that classic film scores have been illegally reused in films from Bridesmaids to Argo.

MAY
28
2015

World soccer rocked by U.S., Swiss arrests of officials for graft

The arrests in a dawn raid at a five-star Zurich hotel mark an unprecedented blow against soccer´s governing body FIFA, which for years has been dogged by allegations of corruption but always escaped major criminal cases.

MAY
27
2015

Federal Panel Lets Injunction Against Obama’s Immigration Actions Stand

Two of three judges on a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, left in place an injunction by a Federal District Court judge in Brownsville, Tex.

MAY
26
2015

Kenyan lawyer offers livestock to wed Obama´s daughter

Felix Kiprono said he was willing to pay 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats in order to fulfil his dream of marrying the first daughter.

MAY
26
2015

U.S. top court rules against Cisco Systems in patent infringement fight

The case will now return to the appeals court for further proceedings.

MAY
26
2015

Charter Communications Agrees to Acquire Time Warner Cable

Charter Communications offered Time Warner Cable investors $195.71 for each share in the company in a cash-and-stock deal.

MAY
26
2015

Federal judge rules again that gay couples have right to wed in Alabama

She put the ruling on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court issues a landmark decision on gay marriage.

MAY
25
2015

Myanmar President signs restrictive population control bill into law

The Population Control Health Care bill allows authorities the power to implement "birth-spacing" in areas with high rates of population growth.

MAY
25
2015

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison For Corruption

The sentencing comes in addition to a six-year prison sentence he received last year in a separate bribery conviction, ensuring the end of the former premier´s political career.

MAY
22
2015

Nebraska lawmakers approve bill abolishing death penalty

Earlier in April Nebraska lawmakers voted 30-13 in favor of the legislation to repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment in first-degree murder cases.

MAY
22
2015

Six Banks Pay $5.8 Billion, Five Guilty of Market Rigging

Six of the world’s biggest banks will pay $5.8 billion and five of them agreed to plead guilty to charges tied to a currency-rigging probe as they seek to wind down almost half a decade of enforcement actions.

MAY
21
2015

Tennessee adopts 48-hour abortion waiting period

The new rules, which take effect July 1, would make Tennessee one of 27 states to require some form of abortion waiting period.

MAY
21
2015

Cameron´s immigration bill to include crackdown on illegal foreign workers

David Cameron to promise bill in Queen’s speech that will make ‘Britain a less attractive place to come and work illegally’.

MAY
20
2015

Petrobras secures US$7bn China financing deal

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Chinese premier Li Keqiang signed 35 agreements worth more than US$53bn during a ceremony in Brasília.

MAY
20
2015

Russian Parliament Passes Law on ´Undesirable´ Foreign Organizations

The bill will prohibit the work of foreign NGOs that are viewed as "a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation."

MAY
19
2015

California man sues Uber claiming it stole ride-sharing idea

Kevin Halpern sued Uber, Kalanick and several early investors in the company in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday, accusing them of misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract.

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