A Shanghai court Thursday rejected a struggling Chinese company's request to bar Apple Inc. from selling its popular iPad computer tablet in China over a trademark dispute.
Moran Zhang
Feb 23, 2012
At least 6,000 people have died in Syria since last March, including at least 500 children, the UN estimates.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 23, 2012
A confidential list of top Syrian officials suspected of ordering crimes against humanity including murder, abductions and torture has been given to the United Nations for possible future prosecution, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.
Joseph Lazzaro
Feb 23, 2012
After nine hours of deliberation, the jury finally revealed the verdict for George Huguely, the University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, Yeardley Love. The 24-year-old was found to be guilty of second-degree murder and grand larceny.
Amanda Remling
Feb 23, 2012
Among the younger lot of royals from across the world who tied knots in the past two years, including the famed Prince William and Kate Middleton of Britain, Swedish Crown Princess Victoria has come up with the good news first.
Sanskrity Sinha
Feb 23, 2012
The home ministry has opposed the decriminalization of gay sex at a Supreme Court hearing, television reports said on Thursday.
W Rorrkychand Singh
Feb 23, 2012
Jeremy Lin is New York City’s most eligible bachelor. Ever since the Linsanity started the New York Knicks point guard is not only a phenomenon on the court, but he is also making his way into a multitude of headlines. The media have started bothering his family in Taiwan; photos of his multi-million dollar apartment hit the Internet; and he has already been linked to Kim Kardashian.
Cavan Sieczkowski
Feb 22, 2012
The Great Bend, Kan.-based company listed as much as $50 million in assets and debt in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 22, 2012
Lindsay Lohan is at the home-stretch of her five-month long probation. According to Reuters, Lohan acquired the probation because of a theft conviction last year, after she admitted to stealing a gold necklace valued at $2,500 last January and two drunk driving cases. She was sentenced to 480 hours of community service.
Florence Madenga
Feb 22, 2012
The ill-fated camera company Eastman Kodak Co. may have lost more than just their fortune when filing for bankruptcy. Although this year’s Academy Award ceremony will be held at the same venue, broadcasters will not be referring to it as the Kodak Theatre, according to a report from the AP.
Lisa Eadicicco
Feb 22, 2012
Of all the issues likely to surface at Wednesday night's Republican debate in Arizona, immigration is a fairly safe bet. That's because Arizona has come to embody the GOP's approach to immigration, in 2010 passing a controversial immigration law that became the model for similar bills passed by Republican-controlled legislatures in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Utah.
Jeremy White
Feb 22, 2012
Iran has issued what could be the final execution order for Youcef Nadarkhani, the Christian pastor who was found guilty of renouncing Islam.
Daniel Tovrov
Feb 22, 2012
Platinum prices shot up more than three percent Wednesday after Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., the world's second largest platinum producer, told buyers April deliveries would be slashed in half because of a strike in South Africa.
Mike Obel
Feb 22, 2012
A branch of the New York State Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Town of Dryden can prohibit the gas drilling hydraulic fracturing within its borders. The decision could embolden other New York municipalities to impose similar bans, potentially upending the primacy of state law over the oil and gas industries.
Pierre Bertrand
Feb 22, 2012
The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak concluded Wednesday, with a verdict due on June 2.
Jonathan Davis
Feb 22, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Phil Spector's appeal of his 2009 second-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
Dan Rivoli
Feb 22, 2012
Graham’s statement that Christians are being murdered in Muslim nations is not entirely false – but he is greatly exaggerating the problem’s true dimensions.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 22, 2012
After Jeremy Lin and the Knicks lost to the second-to-last-place Hornets on Friday night, ESPN editor Anthony Federico accidentally employed a racial slur when describing Lin's mistakes on the court. Comedy group Idiot Culture picked up on the news and served ESPN.
Dave Smith
Feb 22, 2012
Could this be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?
Cristina Merrill
Feb 22, 2012
In a heated courtroom hearing in Shanghai Wednesday, Apple defended its right to use the iPad trademark in China.
Swaty Sharma
Feb 22, 2012
A Chinese technology firm sought to halt the sale of Apple Inc's iPads across the affluent city of Shanghai, arguing at a local court hearing on Wednesday that the U.S. firm had infringed on its trademark.
keep for now
Feb 22, 2012
A scanned advertisement of the Proview iPad made its way onto the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time Report Blog, Feb. 17, so now everyone can see what the Apple trademark dispute is really all about. As mentioned in the accompanying report, Proview's iPad looks nothing like Apple's, but it does look a little bit like the iMac desktop computer of a decade ago.
Anthony Myers
Feb 22, 2012