The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Philip Morris Cos. Inc. cannot move a lawsuit by cigarette smokers into federal court.
A Georgia judge ordered the release Monday of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes , Brazil´s low-cost, low-fare airline, announces an agreement with Continental Airlines whereby passengers flying with Continental will be able to purchase tickets on all routes served by GOL for connections in Brazil and South America.
Amarillo Gold Corp.now operates two advanced gold exploration projects in Brazil, Mara Rosa and Lavras do Sul, both with drill-proven gold mineralization.
The United States said on Wednesday it opposed setting firm targets for greenhouse gas cuts at a G8 summit but offered reassurance that its plan for fighting climate change would not undermine U.N. efforts.
The Bush administration wants to reform the nation’s patent system by requiring better information from inventors and allowing public scrutiny of applications, according to the director of the government’s patent office.
Responding to growing international concerns about tainted food and counterfeit drugs, China said late Tuesday that it was overhauling its food and drug safety regulations and would introduce nationwide inspections.
Brazilian state-owned oil company, Petrobras, will sell in the following days, an initial shipment of 20-million litres of ethanol to Nigeria. Other shipments will take place according to the needs of the programme for implementing ethanol into the Nigerian energy matrix.
US finance tycoon George Soros said Tuesday that he will invest $900 million in the production of ethanol in Brazil, and demanded that the US and EU open their markets for the biofuel produced in the South American country.
French food and beverage major Groupe Danone SA yesterday said it has filed a lawsuit in the United States against two companies involved in its dispute with its joint ventures partner Wahaha, China´s largest beverage company
The State of Michigan’s third attempt in a decade to ban a procedure known among anti-abortion activists as partial-birth abortion was declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court on Monday, less than two months after the Supreme Court narrowly upheld a federal law banning the method.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is facing new questions about its ability to police the safety of medicines after they reach the market following concerns about a widely used diabetes drug.
If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts.
Telecoms equipment-maker Avaya has accepted an $8.5bn (£4.3bn) takeover offer from private equity groups Silver Lake and TPG Capital.
Nigeria filed new charges against Pfizer on Monday, seeking $6.95 billion in damages over the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic.
Flextronics International Ltd, the biggest U.S. contract electronics maker, said on Monday it will buy rival Solectron Corp. for $3.6 billion in cash and stock to cut costs and expand its product line.
A military judge on Monday dismissed terrorism-related charges against a prisoner charged with killing an American soldier in Afghanistan, in a stunning reversal for the Bush administration´s attempts to try Guantanamo detainees in military court.
In a key legal step toward assigning blame for Brazil´s deadliest plane crash, two U.S. pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers were indicted on charges equivalent to involuntary manslaughter for a mid-air collision that killed 154 people.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva began talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, aiming to strengthen business ties and boost diplomatic links between the two emerging market giants.
The U.S. Supreme Court limited the rights of consumers under a federal credit-reporting law in a victory for insurers Safeco Corp. and Geico Corp. and other financial services companies.
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