SNS Reaal Groep NV, the Dutch financial-services company that sold shares to the public last year, agreed to buy Axa SA´s insurance businesses in the Netherlands for 1.75 billion euros ($2.35 billion) to almost double its market share.
A judge refused to throw out a Purdue University student´s indictment on charges alleging he urged the assassination of President George Bush and made threats against other administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife.
The Dutch government is working on a pilot program of "no win, no fee" system in which lawyers are paid only if they win cases for their clients, the Dutch news agency ANP reported on Friday.
William S. Lerach, one of the most powerful securities class-action lawyers in the nation, is considering plans to leave the law firm he founded three years ago.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun an inquiry into New Jersey’s handling of its pension fund for public employees, a move that suggests federal regulators are concerned that the state did not properly disclose its contributions to the fund.
Columbia University will pay $1.1 million to a fund to educate students about loans and has agreed to have its financial aid office monitored by state officials for five years, under a settlement that New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced yesterday.
Valerie Wilson, the former intelligence operative at the heart of an investigation that reached into the White House, sued the Central Intelligence Agency in federal court in New York yesterday over its refusal to allow her to publish a memoir that would discuss how long she had worked for the agency
The suspect in the fatal poisoning of Alexander V. Litvinenko, the former K.G.B. officer and Kremlin critic who died last year in Britain, said Thursday that Britain’s foreign intelligence agency and a self-exiled Russian tycoon had organized the killing and framed him to create a political scandal.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.
President Bush, fending off international accusations that he was ignoring climate change, proposed for the first time on Thursday to set “a long-term global goal” for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and he called on other high-polluting nations to join the United States in negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement by the end of next year.
Motorola said Wednesday that it would cut another 4,000 jobs, or more than 6 percent of its shrinking work force, as part of a plan to improve sagging financial and operational results.
A Middle Eastern man jailed for nearly four years must be released by June 8 because the government, which wants to deport him, has taken too long to find a country that will take him, a federal judge has ruled.
Brazilian mining and metals company MMX Mineracao e Metalicos SA and British mining giant Anglo American announced yesterday they will work together to construct a pipeline to transport ores in the southeast Brazil.
Under pressure from animal rights advocates, two soft drink giants, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have agreed to stop directly financing research that uses animals to test or develop their products, except where such testing is required by law.
EMI has signed a deal with YouTube that will allow its users to access videos by EMI artists.
The Spanish government has filed claims in U.S. federal court over a shipwreck that a Florida firm found laden with colonial-era treasure, an attorney said Thursday.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world´s largest retailer, must face a class-action lawsuit by New Jersey workers claiming the company forced them to work through breaks and cheated them of overtime pay, the state Supreme Court ruled.
The adventures of boy wizard Harry Potter can stay in Gwinnett County school libraries, despite a mother´s objections, a judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. antitrust authorities on Wednesday approved AstraZeneca Plc´s plan to buy biotechnology company MedImmune Inc. for more than $15 billion.
Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m), the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition.
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