After nearly five days of round-the-clock negotiations in New York City, bankrupt Northwest Airlines (NWA) has reached a tentative agreement with its pilots union, NWA officials announced Friday. The pilots' union, the Northwest Airlines Air...
Within hours of the court-appointed deadline, leaders of the flight attendants union have reached a tentative settlement with bankrupt Northwest Airlines (NWA) , after the two sides spent over 24 straight hours at the negotiating table...
The last Iraqi daytime curfew was lifted in Baghdad Monday after five days of sectarian bloodshed, but tensions in the country still threaten to bring civil war. Iraqi officials announced an end to the curfew to let...
A last-minute effort by Miami-based Eller & Co. to block expected UK High Court approval of the $6.8 billion sale of US port operating rights by British company P&O to United Arab Emirates...
The US Supreme Court refused Monday to entertain a second appeal by convicted murderer Clarence Hill in which his lawyers argued that Florida's system of death by lethal injection amounted to a cruel and...
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced Wednesday that one of the five NTP patents that a court found was infringed upon by Research In Motion's (RIM) , manufacturer of the BlackBerry wireless...
New Jersey is launching legal actions in federal and state court to keep a company from the United Arab Emirates from taking over US port operations in the state, Gov. Jon Corzine said...
The government of South Korea is seriously considering abandoning capital punishment, according to officials at the country's Justice Ministry on Wednesday. Earlier this week the ministry ordered a study to determine how abolishing the death penalty -...
Ayman Nour , the Egyptian opposition leader jailed for forgery after his unsuccessful campaign last year, has filed an appeal and requested a suspension of his five-year sentence until the appeals court can rule on the...
Reversing a stance taken in previous years, Idaho state senators Wednesday voted to put on the November ballot a constitutional amendment that would establish one man and one woman marriages as the "only domestic legal union that...
