ConocoPhillip's Bohai Bay oil spill may be over, but like its British counterpart in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. super major's Chinese subsidiary has not seen the end of litigation in the wake of its Chinese spill.
Pierre Bertrand
Dec 13, 2011
Belgian native Nordine Amrani has been named the lone killer in Tuesday's attack in Liege, Belgium.
Daniel Tovrov
Dec 13, 2011
The New York-based telecommunications company must pay up to $11 million a month in royalties to ActiveVideo for providing video-on-demand service found to violate patents, U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Jackson ruled last month in Norfolk, Va.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 13, 2011
The grenade and gun attack in Liege, Belgium Tuesday has sparked chaos and confusion in the city: who is responsible? First theories suggest either Islamic fundamentals or escaped convicts.
Daniel Tovrov
Dec 13, 2011
Vietnam veteran Bob Garon, 63, was having breakfast with his husband at a restaurant in Manchester, N.H., when Mitt Romney saw his veteran's hat and approached him to ask about his war service. But Garon wanted to talk about same-sex marriage.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 13, 2011
Gary Busey has officially announced his endorsement of GOP candidate Newt Gingrich, saying, I've never met Newt but I know what he stands for.
Cavan Sieczkowski
Dec 13, 2011
After a body was identified in Dyersburg in rural western Tennessee as Karen Swift, authorities have launched a homicide investigation probe for the mother of four last seen in October.
Nadine DeNinno
Dec 13, 2011
Papua New Guinea's governor-general decided on Tuesday that the two men claiming to be the resource-rich country's prime minister must negotiate a solution, leaving a tense political deadlock unresolved.
Mike Obel
Dec 13, 2011
The debate on televising U.S. Supreme Court proceedings continued in Washington, D.C., where senators last week debated the idea of legislatively forcing justices to accept cameras.
Dan Rivoli
Dec 13, 2011
As the Department of Justice gears up for a rare criminal trial against a publicly traded company, the Taiwanese defendant wants to argue that prosecutors just don't get Asian business culture.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 13, 2011
Washington Mutual Inc., the biggest bank to fail in U.S. history, said it reached a settlement in a dispute between shareholders and certain creditors that had prevented the bank from emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 13, 2011
More than 5,000 people have been killed in nine months of unrest in Syria, the U.N. human rights chief said, as an insurgency begins to overshadow what had been mostly peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
Eric Linton
Dec 13, 2011
An alleged serial rapist convicted attacking five Manhattan women was sentenced to 428-years in prison.
Michael Billera
Dec 12, 2011
The woman, said to be in her 60s, became the second to be executed in Saudi Arabia for practicing witchcraft this year. The BBC reports that a Sudanese man was executed in September for witchcraft.
David Magee
Dec 12, 2011
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, on Monday sued the city of Chicago over its new vacant buildings ordinance.
Roland Li
Dec 12, 2011
New Jersey Nets owner and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is planning a presidential run-against Vladimir Putin in the March 2012 Russian Presidential election. For the first time the United States now faces a frightening billionaire gap.
Tom Dworetzky
Dec 12, 2011
Hulk Hogan's alleged gay lover, Ed Leslie, or Brutus The Barber Beefcake, has followed Hogan's lead and will be suing the former wrestler's ex-wife Linda Bollea over allegations of a homosexual relationship, Wrestling Inc. reported.
Ceylan Yeginsu
Dec 12, 2011
In a move likely to increase tension with Canada's Muslim minority, the government said on Monday it would bar all women wearing face coverings from taking part in citizenship ceremonies.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 12, 2011
Amnesty said it believes hundreds of other prisoners are languishing in death row in the kingdom.
Palash Ghosh
Dec 12, 2011
As the legal battle between Hulk Hogan and his ex-wife, Linda Bollea, continues to heat up, happy days are ahead for the 58-year-old former wrestler. He will celebrate his one-year anniversary to his new wife, Jennifer McDaniel, later this month.
Laura Matthews
Dec 12, 2011
Manhattan's criminal courthouse will be occupied this week by more than 700 men and women who are charged with a committing a range of minor crimes while participating in the ubiquitous Occupy Wall Street protests.
Connor Adams Sheets
Dec 12, 2011
AT&T and Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's parent company, asked Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. Monday to delay the trial with the U.S. Department of Justice over the proposed $39 billion merger, which she has granted.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 12, 2011