Japan’s agricultural minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, killed himself today, just hours before he was to face parliamentary questioning on a political funding scandal, government officials said.
Brazil´s state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, signed an agreement Saturday to buy gas from Algeria.
Children as young as 11 who have committed a crime could be sent to reformatories under a Japanese law enacted on Friday, part of a trend toward stiffer penalties reflecting growing angst about grisly crime.
Coca-Cola Co., the world´s largest soft-drink maker, and its Mexican bottler said Mexico´s antitrust agency ruled against the $380 million acquisition of a juice maker.
Both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives passed a war funding bill Thursday night without setting a timeline to withdraw troops, thus ending a standoff between Democrats and the Bush administration.
Prodded by Democratic leaders and by freshmen elected partly on promises to clean up Washington, the House approved new ethics legislation yesterday that would penalize lawmakers who receive a wide range of favors from special interests, and would require lobbyists to disclose the campaign contributions they collect and deliver to lawmakers.
Russia said on Friday it would consider trying the chief suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in its own courts but Britain rejected the offer, saying the trial should take place on British soil.
Congress handed a major victory to low-income workers on Thursday night by approving the first increase in the federal minimum wage rate in a decade.
Brazil´s state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, said an internal commission set up by the company in late March didn´t find proof of insider trading related to the acquisition of local oil firm Ipiranga.
The Coca-Cola Company announced today that it will buy Glaceau, the maker of Vitaminwater, for $4.2 billion in cash.
The Brazilian and Mexican governments have tentatively approved the use of genetically modified corn seed, according to a report on the Science and Development Network website.
The city agreed yesterday to pay $2 million to the parents of a young man killed in a Brooklyn stairwell, ending a three-year effort to account for the damage done by a single bullet fired by a police officer.
Gay men remain barred from donating blood, the government said Wednesday, leaving in place a 1983 prohibition meant to prevent the spread of H.I.V. through transfusions.
The Spitzer administration announced the settlement of all insurance claims at ground zero yesterday, ensuring that $4.55 billion will be available for rebuilding the World Trade Center site.
A leading diabetes doctor sent the Food and Drug Administration a letter seven years ago that warned of the heart risks of the drug Avandia. And in the next year, the F.D.A. reprimanded the drug’s maker for playing down safety concerns, according to documents from 2000 and 2001.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should be given the power to regulate tobacco products and cigarette taxes should be hiked as part of a government campaign to reduce smoking, an expert panel recommended on Thursday.
Fast-food giant McDonald´s has launched a petition to get the dictionary definition of a McJob changed.
Banks are being accused of seizing on a recent court victory in Birmingham to persuade customers to drop their claims for repayment of overdraft charges.
The first birth-control pill meant to put a stop to a woman’s monthly period indefinitely has won federal approval, the manufacturer said on Tuesday.
A comprehensive immigration bill survived a significant test on Tuesday as the Senate voted to keep a provision that would let hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers enter the country each year
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