A German court on Thursday dismissed the patent infringement case brought by Microsoft Corp. against Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility . Microsoft alleged that Motorola has unlawfully used its patent EP1304891 which monitors...
The US government and Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday criticized Cuba for the arrest and detention of more than 40 activists who were attending the funeral of prominent dissident Oswaldo Jose Paya...
A Kenyan court on Wednesday lifted the ban on a group that campaigns for the independence of a coastal strip surrounding the city of Mombasa. The three judges for the country's High Court held that...
Massachusetts officials on Tuesday filed two documents in the US Supreme Court challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Attorney General Martha Coakley argued in her brief that Section 3 of...
JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday agreed to a $100 million settlement in a case alleging that the company increased monthly minimum payments for credit card holders from 2 percent to 5 percent in 2008 and...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday granted another two weeks for the new Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to comply with its order to reopen the investigation against President Asif Ali Zardari ....
A regional court of the Philippines on Tuesday granted bail to former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who was detained on electoral fraud charges. The court reasoned that the evidence, based mainly on a single witness'...
Statistics Canada announced Tuesday that the police-reported crime rate for 2011 declined six percent from 2010, reaching the lowest level since 1972. Throughout the country 1,984,916 incidents of crimes were reported in 2011110,000 fewer than...
An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday rejected a request by the defense counsel in the terror trial against the country's vice president Tariq al-Hashemi to call President Jalal Talabani to testify....
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced Tuesday that it is sending human rights officials to investigate the recent attack on a relocation camp for internally displaced persons in Nahibly,...