A drug once viewed as a possible magic bullet against obesity was rejected yesterday by a federal advisory panel because of worries that it causes neurological and psychiatric problems and increases the risk of suicide.
Metso Oyj, the world´s largest maker of rock crushers and paper mills, won an order valued at 150 million euros ($200 million) to supply boilers and other gear to Votorantim Celulose e Papel SA, Brazil´s third largest pulp and paper producer
Brazil´s state-owned oil and gas company Petrobras confirmed on Tuesday it had received the first half of the payment for the two refineries it sold to the Bolivian government.
Roy L. Pearson Jr. wanted to dress sharply for his new job as an administrative law judge here. So when his neighborhood dry cleaner misplaced a pair of expensive pants he had planned to wear his first week on the bench, Judge Pearson was annoyed.
The chairmen of two congressional committees issued subpoenas Monday for testimony from former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor on their roles in the firings of eight federal prosecutors.
At his home in East Los Angeles, Francisco Castaneda of El Salvador faces a grim truth: His cancer is spreading, from his groin to his lymph nodes and toward his stomach, a progression that could soon end his life.
The former chairman of the Wahaha Group and many of the company’s top executives joined forces today to denounce their longtime partner, Groupe Danone, the French food and beverage giant, and threatened to form a company that would break away from its joint venture.
A Milan judge has ordered Citigroup, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank to stand trial for market-rigging in connection with dairy firm Parmalat´s collapse, judicial sources said.
Home care workers are not entitled to overtime pay under federal law, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, a setback for a growing labor force of more than 1 million people.
Congress moved Tuesday to set aside $100 million to create a Justice Department unit devoted to investigating unsolved murders from the civil rights era.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc. faces a U.S. investor lawsuit claiming that Europe´s biggest drugmaker misled shareholders about the safety of diabetes drug Avandia.
A European court upheld on Tuesday Anheuser-Busch´s right to use Budweiser and Bud brand names on merchandise including T-shirts and barbecue sauce, rejecting a challenge by Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar.
French engineering company Alstom SA said Tuesday it won a euro330 million (US$441 million) contract from steel producer ThyssenKrupp CSA Companhia Siderurgica to build a 490 megawatt power plant.
A major chemical carrier and oil tanker owner operating in the United states decided to defend themselves in court from criminal charges for having hidden the occurrence of sea pollution by alleging exclusive fault of the crew, and that their corporate policy expressly forbids violating the environment.
The top antitrust official at the Justice Department last month backed Microsoft Corp. by urging state prosecutors to reject a confidential complaint filed by Google Inc., The New York Times reported on Sunday.
Seventeen years ago, Mark Braunstein dived 60 feet off a footbridge into a river, landed wrong and became a paraplegic. A librarian at Connecticut College, Mr. Braunstein, 55, walks with the aid of crutches and leg braces. He smokes marijuana every three days or so to control the pain and spasms in his feet that would otherwise immobilize him.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review whether judges are required to impose dramatically longer sentences for crack cocaine than for cocaine powder, stepping into a long-running dispute with racial overtones.
The parents of 12-year-old Michelle Cedillo asked a federal court Monday to find that their child´s autism was caused by common childhood vaccines, a precedent-setting case that could pave the way for thousands of autistic children to receive compensation from a government fund set up to help people injured by the shots.
The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.
The Supreme Court strengthened a landmark anti-pollution program Monday, enabling companies to recover costs when they voluntarily clean up hazardous material.
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