The US Justice Department has launched an investigation into possible price-fixing of music downloads by major label record companies, according to Department sources. The Department has already issued subpoeanas to four major record labels: EMI, Sony BMG,...
Police in Manila Saturday raided the offices of the Manila Daily Tribune and detained several high-profile critics of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines a day after she declared a...
A Nigerian court in the southern city of Port Harcourt Friday ordered Royal Dutch Shell to pay $1.5 billion to compensate local communities for environmental pollution caused by the company's activities in the southern Niger delta region,...
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton Friday granted defense attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby access to Libby's personal handwritten notes taken over a nine-month period around the time that the identity...
In a speech Friday in Cleveland, US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Mark Everson said that the IRS had found a sharp increase in prohibited political activity by 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charities, including some...
US Army Gen. Bantz J. Craddock , military commander for US Southern Command , which oversees the detention center at Guantanamo Bay , has confirmed that military officials have begun employing more aggressive tactics to...
Krishna Sitaula, leader of the opposition Nepali Congress , was arrested at his home on Wednesday, just two days after he was released from prison , along with several other opposition politicians, according to an order...
Defense lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, have denied that they are trying to derail the prosecution in the CIA leak case by requesting...
A federal judge in California has issued a preliminary injunction against search engine company Google , requiring the company to remove images from its image search service that violate the copyrights of adult...
The UN chief administrator of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal said Saturday that the trials of former Khmer Rouge members must begin as soon as possible if they are to happen while the former members...
