Alabama Attorney General Troy King on Thursday filed a lawsuit against BP for damages to the state's coast and economy, claiming that the oil giant has failed in its efforts to accept responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon...
Australian Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis on Friday concluded an investigation into Google's collection and storage of private data over unsecured wireless networks, determining that the company's actions violated the Australia Privacy Act...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday rejected a request from the Obama administration to stay a preliminary injunction lifting the government's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling . The three-judge...
The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) on Thursday upheld a Swedish law restricting Internet gambling. The suit was brought by the publishers of two Swedish newspapers, Expressen and Aftonbladet, which both ran online gambling advertisements...
The UK Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday convicted three British Muslims for attempting to blow up transatlantic planes leaving London's Heathrow Airport in 2006. Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zahman were...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday stayed the extradition of four terrorism suspects from the UK to the US, holding that potential punishment could violate Human Rights Convention provisions on the prohibition of...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced charges against five members of al Qaeda allegedly involved in the New York City subway bomb plot in September 2009. The attempted bombing...
A group of Chicago citizens on Tuesday filed suit against the city and Mayor Richard Daly claiming the the city's new gun control ordinance infringes on their constitutional rights. The new ordinance bans gun shops...
Former Chongqing deputy police chief and high-ranking judicial official Wen Qiang was executed in China on Wednesday after an appeal of his corruption charges was rejected by the Chongqing Intermediate People's Court [official...
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday convicted New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune on five criminal charges in connection with boarding a Japanese whaling vessel as part of a protest in the Antarctic....
