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September 25, 2020

Trial on Harvey plant fire resumes after COVID-19 delay

A trial in which a chemical manufacturer is facing charges over a fire at its suburban Houston plant during Hurricane Harvey ...

September 22, 2020

French rugby chief quizzed in financial conflicts case

Questioned as part of a three-year financial investigation, French Rugby Federation president Bernard Laporte angrily ...

September 22, 2020

British man sentenced to 5 years for hacking US companies

A British man who was part of a hacking collective called The Dark Overlord was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for ...

September 15, 2020

2 charges dismissed in trial over plant fire during Harvey

A judge on Monday dismissed two of the charges a chemical manufacturer and one of its former executives were facing during ...

September 11, 2020

Swiss court puts Qatari on trial in soccer case next week

In Switzerland’s federal criminal court on Monday, Nasser al-Khelaifi will become the first Qatari to stand trial almost six ...

September 11, 2020

Slovenian woman cut off her hand for insurance payout

A court in Slovenia on Friday sentenced a 22-year-old woman to two years in prison for deliberately cutting off her hand with ...

September 06, 2020

Nissan's Ghosn gone, American Kelly faces Japan trial alone

His boss Carlos Ghosn escaped financial misconduct charges by fleeing the country, but another former Nissan executive is ...

August 27, 2020

South Africa cricket body fires CEO for 'serious misconduct'

South Africa's national cricket body fired its CEO Thursday after an independent investigation found him guilty of serious ...

August 26, 2020

US: Russian man offered worker $1M to sew malware in Nevada

A Russian citizen has been arrested and charged with offering an employee of a Nevada company $1 million to sew malware for ...

August 13, 2020

Daimler reaches deals to settle US diesel emissions claims

Daimler AG, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, says it has reached agreements in principle to settle U.S. claims over emissions ...

August 03, 2020

Court: Hugo Chávez's former nurse hid gold in secret vault

It was 2014 and Venezuela’s former treasurer Claudia Díaz was looking for a safe haven to store the unexplained wealth she ...

July 30, 2020

Ghosn gone, other Nissan former executive set to face trial

Former Nissan executive Greg Kelly, who was arrested in connection with the financial scandal of his ex-boss Carlos Ghosn, ...

July 30, 2020

Lawmakers grill 4 Big Tech CEOs but don't land many blows

Congressional lawmakers finally got a chance to grill the CEOs of Big Tech over their dominance and allegations of ...

July 27, 2020

Spain: Court hears testimony on whether Assange was spied on

Spain’s National Court heard testimony Monday in an investigation into whether a Spanish company was hired to spy on Julian ...

July 24, 2020

Man guilty of giving escort employer credit card sentenced

An Illinois man who claims his 2012 divorce prompted him to go on a binge that included alcohol, prostitutes and giving a ...

July 22, 2020

2 more ex-Wirecard managers arrested, ex-CEO back in custody

Two more former executives at bankrupt German payment company Wirecard were arrested on Wednesday in the fraud scandal that ...

July 20, 2020

Amber Heard tells court she feared Depp would kill her

Amber Heard has accused ex-husband Johnny Depp of abusing her both physically and verbally while he was allegedly bingeing ...

July 16, 2020

Ex-VW manager to finish US prison sentence in Germany

A former Volkswagen senior manager who was sentenced to prison in the U.S. for his role in the company's emissions scandal ...