U.S. drug giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) hired investigators to dig up dirt on Nigeria’s former attorney general in order to stop an investigation over a controversial drug trial the company conducted which led to the deaths of eleven children, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
Palash Ghosh
Dec 10, 2010
A three-judge bench of the Second District Court of Appeal in Lakeland, Florida, has ruled that pasting of face photos of 11- and 12-year old children over the heads of nude adult women doesn't amount to child pornography.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 07, 2010
Do those debt relief ads you see on the TV or the offers you get over the phone sound too good to be true?
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 07, 2010
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, was arrested on Tuesday in relation to a Swedish sex-crime case, the London Metropolitan Police said.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 07, 2010
U.S. law enforcement is going after investment fraud.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 06, 2010
Australia's Attorney-General Robert McClelland hinted that the government would not stop WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from coming home. According to a spokesperson of McClelland, the Attorney-General stated that the 39-year-old Australian is 'entitled' to come home and could also avail consular assistance overseas.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 06, 2010
The founder of the controversial whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has been placed on Interpol’s international wanted persons list, the international police organization announced today.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 01, 2010
The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that a state can be sued for negligence in case of wild animal attacks and cannot raise immunity defenses.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2010
Ecuador on Monday offered residence to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘with no problems and no conditions’.
Shankar besta
Nov 30, 2010
Selling counterfeit items over the Internet became a little more difficult today, as federal law enforcement officers executed seizure orders against the domain names of 82 commercials websites that, authorities said, sold and distributed counterfeit goods and copyrighted works.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 29, 2010
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is not guilty of inaction but was misguided by the Law Ministry and the bureaucrats and hence delayed in filing replies to the complaints of an opposition lawmaker who sought sanction to prosecute 2G spectrum scam accused Andimuthu Raja, the Attorney General of India has submitted before the Supreme Court.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 29, 2010
It was called the “Facebook Election” when Obama won nearly 70 percent of the vote among Americans under age 25 reaching them through Facebook. Essentially, Obama won on the wave of youth support, using Facebook.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 26, 2010
Sen. Franken says Comcast may be gun-jumping with its impending merger with NBC Universal and thus violating antitrust laws.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 23, 2010
A bill that would authorize the U.S. attorney general to shut down web sites accused of copyright infringement has met opposition from Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 19, 2010
Two former Liberian humanitarian aid workers have been convicted for defrauding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) of $1.9 million, which was intended to help rebuild civil war-torn Liberia, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 19, 2010
Home foreclosures in the U.S. in October fell by 9 percent primarily because some major banks temporarily froze foreclosure proceedings and delayed sales of foreclosed properties nationwide after being criticized for shoddy paperwork, according to real estate data company RealtyTrac.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 12, 2010
Authorities in Australia, which is a staunch opponent of death penalty, are in a dilemma over whether they should deport Honeymoon Killer Gabe Watson, who completed serving his prison term in Australia on Wednesday, to Alabama, U.S., a pro-death penalty state that wants to try him again over his wife's death.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 11, 2010