The White House on Thursday expressed disappointment at the collapse of talks in Germany aimed at a world trade agreement and faulted Brazil and India for standing in the way of a deal that would help smaller countries.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in a move to protect its reputation, has denied any linkage between its World Heritage protection program, and the ongoing media campaign dubbed the "seven new wonders of the world."
Fifa, football´s world governing body, has agreed to pay Mastercard $90m (£45m) to settle a bitter dispute about sponsorship of the World Cup.
Foster carers who smoke will be banned from looking after children under the age of five, a charity has proposed.
The Bush administration came out strongly against a bipartisan effort by Sens. Charles Grassley and Barack Obama to make the immigration bill easier on employers.
Germany has proposed to EU states that they should agree to drop the idea of a constitution when they meet at a summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday.
After struggling with what was described as one of the most difficult decisions in her three-year tenure, Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a measure today that would have legalized the use of marijuana for certain medical conditions.
Nuveen Investments Inc., the biggest manager of closed-end mutual funds, agreed on Wednesday to be acquired for $5.75 billion by investors led by private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners LLC in the largest buyout of an asset manager.
Video sharing website YouTube yesterday announced a partnership with Latin America´s major TV network Globo, headquartered in Rio de Janeiro.
JBS SA, the company that controls Brazil´s leading beef exporter Friboi, will buy U.S.-based Swift & Co. in a $225 million cash deal, that also comes with $1.2 billion in debt, JBS announced Tuesday.
Ericsson has won an order to run the fixed telephone network of Brazil´s Telemar, taking over some 700 staff from the operator, the Swedish telecom equipment maker said on Wednesday.
A federal judge in Manhattan today upheld the patent on the anticlotting drug Plavix, good news for the companies that co-market the blockbuster product, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis.
Google Inc.´s YouTube, the most- popular video-sharing Web site, started nine local versions of the site in countries including Brazil, Japan and the U.K. to build its audience worldwide.
Behind the barbed wire and thick walls of the state mental hospital here are two patients who have not been allowed to live in the outside world for 20 years. Both were found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
The boss of Korean carmaker Hyundai has failed in his attempt to have a three year jail term suspended so that he could continue to work at the company.
The European Parliament has voted down a bid by MEPs from Poland, Finland, the Baltic states, Sweden and Denmark to tighten the legal definition of vodka.
In another setback for the death penalty in New Jersey, the State Supreme Court established ground rules yesterday for how a defendant, after being convicted of a capital crime, could show mental retardation and secure a sentence of life imprisonment.
A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
Investors who lost money when the dot-com bubble burst suffered a Supreme Court setback Monday, and the justices are poised to issue yet another important decision that could restrict shareholder lawsuits.
Genesco, the company behind footwear names like the teenager-focused Journeys chain of stores and the Johnston & Murphy brand of shoes, said today that it had agreed to sell itself to a smaller retailer, the Finish Line, for $1.5 billion.
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