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A BP logo is seen on a petrol station in London November 2, 2010.

U.S. sues BP, seeks fines for oil spill

The U.S. sued BP and eight other defendants on Wednesday over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mex ico, seeking civil penalties under the Clean Water Act.
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Fiddausi Abdullahi Madaki, a victim of Pfizer's 1996 test, sits at her home in Kano

Pfizer sought dirt on Nigerian official to drop legal action: Wikileaks

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.
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Lying telemarketers busted

Do those debt relief ads you see on the TV or the offers you get over the phone sound too good to be true?
Wikileaks' Assange can come home: top Aussie official

Wikileaks' Assange can come home: top Aussie official

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.
WikiLeaks supporters vow to step up cyber attacks

Wikileaks founder wanted by Interpol

The founder of the controversial whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has been placed on Interpol’s international wanted persons list, the international police organization announced today.
Counterfeit goods seized by the U.S. government are shown on display at the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center in northern Virginia, October 7, 2010.

Feds bust knock-off sales sites

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.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attends the Indian labor conference in New Delhi November 23, 2010

Indian PM not guilty of inaction in 2G scam, Atty. Gen. tells apex court

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.
A home for sale is seen in Los Angeles, California

'Robo-signers' effect: U.S. foreclosures dip in Oct

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.
Australia's Attorney General Robert McClelland (far left) and his U.S. counterpart Eric Holder (c) are seen at a Quintet meeting composed of the Attorneys General from the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. at the U.S. Justice Dept., Wash.

Australia in dilemma over deportation of Honeymoon Killer to the U.S.

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.

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