A Nigerian state has filed criminal charges against Pfizer Inc. for its alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic, court papers showed on Wednesday.
A New Zealand woman on an oxygen machine died after her electricity was cut off for being late paying the bill, local media said on Wednesday.
The federal agency that handles immigration visas confirmed yesterday that it would raise its fees by an average of 66 percent starting July 30. The step made final an increase first proposed in January, and drew a new outcry from immigration lawyers and advocacy groups.
President Bush has chosen Robert B. Zoellick, a senior diplomat and trade envoy who became a top Goldman Sachs executive last year, to lead the World Bank and try to heal the bitter rifts left by the ouster of Paul D. Wolfowitz, the administration said Tuesday.
A Thai constitutional court found today that members of one of the country’s major political parties violated the country’s voting laws in elections last year, raising the prospect that it may be dissolved. A few hours earlier, the other major party was acquitted by the same court.
The European Commission (EC) announced here Wednesday that it had proposed a strategic partnership with Brazil to be launched at the first European Union-Brazil summit on July 4, 2007 in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon.
A New Jersey jury on Tuesday found that Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG failed to adequately warn a patient of the bowel disease risks associated with its potent acne medicine Accutane and awarded him $2.5 million in damages.
Thailand´s top constitutional judges met on Tuesday to decide whether to disband the country´s biggest two parties and ban their leaders from politics for breaching election laws a year ago, a court spokesman said.
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google’s planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed on the agency’s plans said yesterday.
The Supreme Court limited workers´ ability to sue for pay discrimination Tuesday, ruling against a Goodyear employee who earned thousands of dollars less than her male counterparts but waited too long to complain.
The former head of China’s top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death today after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, according to the state-controlled news media.
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group and two other European banks made a formal $95.6 billion bid today for ABN Amro, the Dutch bank at the center of a bidding war with Barclays in the richest banking takeover.
Agreement provides manufacturers of medical devices, household appliances and IT equipment with product safety testing services for market entry into Brazil
J&F Participacoes SA, which controls JBS SA, Latin America´s biggest meat producer, agreed to acquire Swift & Co. of the U.S. for $225 million in cash to create the world´s largest beef and pork processor.
Channel 4 has denied that a documentary about the car crash which killed Princess Diana contains graphic images of the victims.
A senior Polish official has ordered psychologists to investigate whether the popular BBC TV show Teletubbies promotes a homosexual lifestyle.
An Australian hotel catering for homosexuals has won the right to ban heterosexuals from its bars so as to provide a safe and comfortable venue for gay men
A Libyan court on Sunday acquitted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges of slander.
With little more than an hour to go late Sunday until this country’s oldest television network was to be taken off the air after 53 years of broadcasting, the police dispersed thousands of protesters by firing tear gas into demonstrations against the measure.
Health officials and eye doctors are puzzled by an outbreak of a rare but potentially blinding eye infection that led the manufacturer of a contact lens cleaning solution to withdraw one of its products this weekend.
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