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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil lawsuit against energy giant BP Exploration and Production Inc. and eight other companies, accusing them of violating the Clean Water Act and has asked the court to hold them liable without limitation under the Oil Pollution Act for all removal costs and damages caused by the oil spill, including damages to natural resources.

UK campaign to tighten immigration hits a setback, but the Coalition is set on keeping up its election promise. David Coleman, Professor of Demography at Oxford University, asserts that Britain should tighten immigration policy and explains negative effects.

A Texas lawyer and her estranged husband were found dead on a property they own near Canyon Lake in an apparent murder-suicide incident, investigators claim.

Chris Brown proudly tweeted pictures of his completion course on domestic violence.

Harry Potter actress Afshan Azad failed to appear before court s to give evidence on a domestic violence case against her father and brother.

Renowned Wall Street analyst Meredith Whitney has warned that the U.S. may witness between 50 to 200 “sizeable defaults” amounting to “hundreds of billions of dollars” among municipal and state governments next year, which could derail the recovery.

The European Union agreed on Monday to ban Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent President, Laurent Gbagbo and his aides, the BBC reported. The Gbagbo regime is likely to be slapped with harsh sanctions from the West. The sanction could also include freezing the personal overseas assets of the president and his men and issuing visa bans.

Lindsay relocated to another facility after receiving strange threatening messages.

Lawyers appeal against conviction of Snipes based on a juror's claim that there was evidence of mistrial in 2008

The President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir stashed away as much as $9-billion of his nation's in foreign bank accounts, according to US diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks.

Victims of Bernard Madoff's multi-billion dollar ponzi scheme are set to get a at least a third of their money back. The court-appointed trustee for Madoff's investment company - Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC - said Friday the estate of investor and philanthropist Jeffry M. Picower had decided to give back $5 billion. That is in addition to $2.2 billion the Picower group has given up to the U.S. government already.

A Detroit-area medical clinic owner has been sentenced to 151 months in prison for his role in a $23 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Health and Human Services (HHS) have announced.

Nigeria has withdrawn charges against former US Vice-President Dick Cheney over a bribery scandal dating from the 1990s when Cheney was chief executive officer of Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL).

A man who used a “child modeling” website to push child pornography has been sentenced to nine years in prison, federal authorities said today.

Legal experts, including a pair of former U.S. prosecutors, discussed U.S. law and how it relates to the leaking of documents online by the WikiLeaks organization and its founder Julian Assange.

Whistleblower site Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been in spotlight for exposing diplomatic cables, seems to have a cablegate scandal of his own, as some of his emails recording his attempt to court a teenager have surfaced.

A federal jury has found two former engineers of Wyko Tire Technology Inc., guilty of stealing trade secrets from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

Oklahoma has executed John David Duty, 58, on Thursday keeping alive its capital punishment policy. The difference this time was that it used for the first time a drug called pentobarbital, a sedative that is used as euthanasia for animals.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: InterMune, YRC Worldwide, Take-Two Interactive Software, Oracle, China Sunergy, Veeco Instruments, Research In Motion, China MediaExpress Holdings, Powerwave Technologies, and MIPS Technologies.

Classified US diplomatic cables leaked by whistle-blower site Wikileaks revealed that the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) briefed US officials over the continued ill-treatment of detainees in Kashmir by the armed forces and the police. Some cables stated that the government-nurtured militia committed brutal human rights abuses including extra-judicial killings, rapes and extortion of Kashmiri civilians suspected of harboring extremists in the Valley.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: YRC Worldwide, Take-Two Interactive Software, Oracle, Iconix Brand Group, Rightnow Technologies, Dress Barn, Activision Blizzard, Research In Motion, China MediaExpress Holdings, and OmniVision Technologies.