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The Vietnam Veterans of America today filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New Haven, CT, claiming that the Department of Defense has failed to comply with the law by not releasing records on Personality Disorder discharges.

HP has bagged a five-year $1.4 billion technology infrastructure outsourcing deal with German utility giant E.ON.

The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has named six high-profile Kenyans including senior politicians and a former police chief who were suspected to be behind the violence that followed the disputed 2007 elections. Close to 1,200 people lost their lives while over 650,000 were displaced in the riots. Kenyan police are on high alert after the announcement which observers say could spark renewed clashes in the region.

The Obama administration's top legal and health officials defended the embattled health care law on Tuesday, saying they believe it will survive the legal challenges it faces.

The court martial of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who disobeyed orders because he believes Barack Obama is not the legal President of the United States, begins today at Fort Meade in Maryland.

Award-winning director Michael Moore is coming out in support of WikiLeaks, posting $20,000 in bail money for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Viacom has attracted some high-profile support in its legal battle with YouTube, including software giant Microsoft and artists such as Garth Brooks and Sting.

Allied Irish Bank (NYSE: AIB) has bowed to government pressure and cancelled plans to shell out back-dated bonuses totaling 40-million euros to its executives. The bank’s board decided to abandon the payments after Ireland’s finance minister Brian Lenihan intervened by threatening to withhold state funding for the troubled lender.

Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said he has directed cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar to suggest measures to prevent leakages of recorded telephone conversations outside the government while looking into the issue of telephone tapping.

Dealing a blow to a key part of the recently passed U.S. health care reform law, a federal judge ruled Monday it is unconstitutional to require individuals to buy health insurance or face a fine.

A U.S. Federal Judge in Washington state has put the kibosh on Paul Allen's sue the Internet patent lawsuit, at least for now.

India’s Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to table a copy of the complaint in the court in a sealed cover against corporate lobbyist Nira Radia that led to tapping of her telephonic conversations with a host of people including political leaders, corporate honchos and journalists.

The Alaska Senate race is finally over, perhaps.

US fraudster Bernard Madoff's son has been found dead at his Manhattan apartment in New York, according to US media reports. Police suspect that forty six-year-old Mark Madoff, could have committed suicide.

Satellite phones aren't as clunky as they once were, and technology has made them more powerful. Yet so far few have made the business work

TerreStar Networks will have to wait a bit longer before it can move forward with its hotly contested bankruptcy plan, losing a bid to get its disclosure statement approved quickly.

Patent collecting company Intellectual Ventures, which was started by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has filed patent lawsuits against nine companies.

The assault of Wikileaks forced US military to ban the usage of CDs, DVDs and USB flash drives on its internal network, SIPRNET, reports suggest. The latest move is likely to force Pentagon to revert to using a rather conventional data-transfer medium. Memos sent out earlier this week by the defense department also warn of court martial to military personnel found in violation of the order.

TerreStar Networks is facing a more court fights with creditors over its reorganization plan.

An Alaska Superior Court Judge has said he will rule by Friday on Senate candidate Joe Miller’s challenge to the apparently victorious write-in campaign of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

A committed and knowledgeable collector of wine, Lord Lloyd Webber has built up a magnificent cellar over many years, part of which will be offered for sale at Sotheby's Hong Kong on January 22, 2011.