Imperial Chemical Industries, Britain’s largest specialty chemical maker, said today that it had rejected a takeover bid from Akzo Nobel worth £7.2 billion, or $14 billion, as too low.
Russia’s intelligence service said Friday that it had opened a criminal investigation into British espionage here in Russia, based on statements and undisclosed evidence provided by a businessman who is accused of poisoning Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former K.G.B. officer and a Kremlin critic.
Police have smashed a global Internet pedophile ring with 700 members and rescued more than 30 children from abuse, a police spokesman said on Monday.
Louis Pearlman, the creator of boy bands like Backstreet Boys and ´N Sync, was remanded on Monday to custody in Guam pending his transfer to Florida where he faces charges of fraud.
An official of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said that illegal workers found staying in the country after the end of the amnesty period would face a life ban, local newspaper Khaleej Times reported on Monday.
His law license lost and reputation in tatters, Mike Nifong seemingly can fall no further. But the disgraced prosecutor who committed "intentional prosecutorial misconduct" in his pursuit of the Duke lacrosse rape case faces an uncertain — and likely troubled — future.
Clutching a photo of her son, Maria Carvajal walks Tijuana´s sweltering streets searching for the mentally disabled man she says was deported more than a month ago despite being a U.S. citizen and then disappeared in this chaotic border city.
Congress in Colombia has approved a bill to grant homosexual couples the same rights to social security benefits as heterosexual couples.
The U.S. Supreme Court gave Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other investment banks a new shield from antitrust claims, throwing out lawsuits that accused the securities industry of rigging 900 initial public offerings.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that a passenger in a vehicle has the same right as a driver to challenge the constitutionality of a traffic stop.
Brazilian airline Gol announced that it has entered into a baggage and ticketing agreement with US Delta Air Lines allowing for faster and more convenient connections between the two airlines.
Cambodian and foreign judges announced rules Wednesday clearing the way for a U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal to begin long-delayed proceedings against Khmer Rouge leaders in the deaths of about 1.7 million people between 1975 and 1979.
Massachusetts lawmakers blocked a proposed constitutional amendment Thursday that would have let voters decide whether to ban gay marriage in the only state that allows it.
A judge has ruled that a 24-year-old Canadian man is not allowed to have a girlfriend for the next three years.
An EU summit next week may agree to re-name the European constitution and re-package it as a simple treaty, a report by German officials suggests.
Hans-Juergen Uhl, a former German lawmaker and labor leader at Volkswagen AG, was convicted by a German court after confessing that he used company money for prostitutes and lied to conceal his actions.
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld a Washington state law that restricts how labor unions can use fees collected from nonmembers for political purposes.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that foreign governments can be sued in an effort to collect unpaid local property taxes on residences for their diplomats at the United Nations.
Five-ounce tubes of toothpaste labeled Colgate and sold in discount stores in four states are being recalled because they may contain a diethylene glycol.
The House education committee voted Wednesday to cut subsidies to student lenders and to halve the interest rates on a key student loan program over the next five years.
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