A 10-year-old boy was convicted Thursday in the beating of a homeless Army veteran that left the man so severely injured he required reconstructive surgery.
Pope Benedict XVI has canonised Brazil´s first native-born saint, Friar Galvao, to the cheers of up to a million faithful gathered in Sao Paulo.
The Turkish Parliament approved a constitutional amendment on Thursday that would allow the president to be elected in a direct nationwide vote.
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to ban gifts and payments by student loan companies to universities, showing bipartisan resolve to clean up the $85 billion industry.
Bowing to safety concerns, government medical advisers urged on Thursday that additional restrictions be put on the use of drugs that treat anemia in cancer patients.
The Bush administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, breaking a partisan impasse that had dragged on for months, reached an agreement this evening on the rights of workers overseas to join labor unions.
An Irish teenager has won a High Court battle in Dublin to be allowed to visit Britain for an abortion.
By a vote of 93 to 1, the Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration new power to police drug safety, order changes in drug labels, regulate advertising and restrict the use and distribution of medicines found to pose serious risks to consumers.
Cia. Siderurgica Nacional, Brazil´s third-largest steelmaker, said it will miss dividend payments worth 685.2 million reais ($338.8 million) today after a federal court seized some of its assets amid a dispute over taxes.
Internet media company says June 16 will be last day to bid or buy from the auction site.
UN appeals judges at The Hague have reversed the conviction of a Bosnian Serb army general for complicity in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
Police in Zimbabwe have broken up a march by lawyers in the capital, Harare, beating up several of them.
Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson are paying doctors hundreds of millions of dollars every year in return for prescribing anemia drugs which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses, the New York Times reported on its Web site on Wednesday.
A Dutch appeals court raised the prison sentence of a Dutch businessman to 17 years after confirming on Wednesday he was guilty of complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals to Iraq used in deadly gas attacks.
Turkey´s parliament officially halted on Wednesday a presidential election process that triggered a major political crisis and forced the Islamist-rooted government to call early national polls.
The Nagoya District Court on Wednesday invalidated a company´s sacking of a third-generation Japanese-Brazilian who called his boss an idiot, saying the company had abused its right of dismissal.
Mabel, a traditional Brazilian biscuit manufacturer, wants to get to know the North African market better.
Canada´s electronic publisher Thomson Corp. confirmed on Monday that it has initiated talks with Reuters Group Plc for potential take-over of the British news service.
The government of Dubai, the second largest emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has decided to ban smoking in all public places, local newspaper Gulf News reported on Tuesday.
Former President Bill Clinton announced deals with two Indian generic drug companies on Tuesday to cut prices of AIDS treatment for second line anti-retroviral drugs for 66 developing countries.
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