Today’s much-anticipated speech from Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, failed to lift the country’s emergency laws (which have been in effect since 1963) nor did he offer any concrete political reforms or concessions.
Palash Ghosh
Mar 30, 2011
Arizona death-row inmate Eric John King lost the race with death as the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition to stay the verdict hours before the scheduled time of execution.
Jijo Jacob
Mar 30, 2011
The 24-year-old actress turned down a plea deal that included jail time and chose to move forward with a trial in her felony grand theft case, People.com confirmed.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 24, 2011
The legal battle between Sony Computer Entertainment America and a hacker who published a jailbreak has taken a new turn in the wake of accusations that he deliberately withheld evidence from Sony
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 24, 2011
Swiss bank UBS tricked victims of Bernard Madoff's giant Ponzi scheme by sponsoring a Luxembourg-registered fund that for four years fed assets directly to the fraudster without saying so in its prospectus, a Paris court heard on Wednesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 23, 2011
Sony Computer Entertainment America may win its fight to get its case against a hacker tried in California, as it has filed documents that it says tie him to the state.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 23, 2011
People.com is reporting that the prosecutor responsible for prosecuting Paris Hilton and Bruno Mars on separate drug charges was arrested and booked into jail on drug charges of his own.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 21, 2011
Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher has died, his law firm said on Saturday. His long career as a lawyer and diplomat included a leadership role in promoting peace in the Balkans. He was 85.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 19, 2011
Accused hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam did not get secrets about Advanced Micro Devices Inc
and eBay Inc from a former high-placed friend because the information was already public, his lawyer argued at trial on Wednesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 16, 2011
TORONTO - Lionsgate is partnering with Groupon to sell half-price $6.00 tickets for The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei and Ryan Phillippe. The film is opening wide this Friday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 16, 2011
Years ago when nude photos of actress Vanessa Hudgens surfaced, she probably thought that nightmare was over. Little did she know those photos would come back to haunt her
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 16, 2011
President Barack Obama on Friday defended the military's treatment of a soldier accused of leaking classified State Department cables which have been released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, as a key State Department official resigned on Sunday after criticizing the military.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 14, 2011
Charlie Sheen had a little surprise visit Thursday night from the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers raided his home searching for firearms.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 11, 2011
Troubled actor Charlie Sheen is trying to take revenge on the corporate trolls who fired him from his hit TV show Two and a Half Men.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 10, 2011
Congress is preparing to pass the first major changes to patent law in more than a half a century, but some experts say it may not make much difference in the spate of technology company lawsuits.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 10, 2011
According to OK! Magazine, the actor plans to sue the creator of the show, Chuck Lorre, as well as the production company Warner Bros Inc.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 08, 2011
At a time law graduates would sell their arms and legs and maybe something more to get into a BigLaw, a Sidley Austin associate has dumped his cushy job to go hiking from Delaware to California with a tent and his dog, Mabel.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 07, 2011
The lawyers representing former Pennsylvanian judge Mark Ciavarella, who was convicted last month by a federal jury in Scranton of 12 of the 39 counts in the 'kids for cash' case, said he is innocent and are seeking an acquittal or a new trial.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 07, 2011
A sweeping insider trading case that shook the hedge fund world is finally set for trial, with onetime billionaire Raj Rajaratnam fighting to stay out of prison in a courtroom drama over corporate secrets, tapped telephones and friends-turned-government witnesses.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 04, 2011
Foreign banks have not gotten the message when it comes to helping American clients avoid paying taxes, a top U.S. tax prosecutor said on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 04, 2011
Renowned designer, John Galliano’s recent anti-Semitic video has created ripples of shock in the fashion industry.
Monami Thakur
Mar 03, 2011
Jon Huntsman is a savvy operator who knows how to work a crowd. But it was someone in a crowd who worked Huntsman on a bitterly cold Sunday last month when the U.S. envoy to China was seen at a small anti-government protest in Beijing.
Wenwen Meng
Mar 02, 2011
