Criminal Law

UBS AG Chief Executive Oswald Grubel sent a memorandum to the bank's top executives on Thursday saying the bank could not comply with a U.S. government request to disclose the identity of 52,000 secret account holders, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.

Allen Stanford will remain in jail after a federal judge on Thursday denied a request to reconsider the Texas financier's detention.

R. Allen Stanford was arrested Thursday in Virginia by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations, his lawyer said, according to reports.

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has surrendered to authorities and will face criminal charges on Friday tied to an alleged massive fraud involving certificates of deposit issued by his Antigua bank, his lawyer said.

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford was prepared to surrender to U.S. authorities in Virginia on Thursday night after a warrant was issued for his arrest, Stanford's lawyer said.

A French hostage died on Friday and four others were freed when French forces attacked pirates who had seized their yacht off Somalia, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said in a statement on Friday.

Armed raiders set fire to a refugee camp in Sudan's Darfur region, killing at least two people, peacekeepers said on Wednesday.

U.N. human rights investigators on Tuesday announced a global investigation into secret detention and said they would not relax scrutiny of U.S. counter-terrorism policies under President Barack Obama.

U.S. prosecutors will file a criminal information in their case against accused swindler Bernard Madoff if he waives an indictment, a court document said on Friday.

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Wednesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.

but the target and the damage were transatlantic. MILITARY NETWORKS McKinnon is accused of causing the entire U.S. Army's Military District of Washington network of more than 2,000 computers to be shut down for 24 hours. He has told Reuters he was just a computer nerd who wanted to find out whether aliens really existed and became obsessed with trawling large military networks for proof. At the...

UBS AG warned Friday that it could go out of business if it complied with an order to reveal the names of thousands of suspected U.S. tax dodgers with secret offshore accounts at the Swiss bank. In papers filed in federal court in Miami, attorneys for UBS said a U.S. government lawsuit filed Thursday could force it to violate Swiss criminal law by turning over inform...

An American student on trial for the murder of her British roommate had a scratch on her neck hours after the killing, a witness testified Saturday at the murder trial in Italy, the Associated Press reported.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Thursday to require that a military prison in Guantanamo Bay be closed within one year.

Ryan O'Neal pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony charge of drug possession for his September arrest and agreed to enter an 18-month drug deferment program.

The Supreme Court on wednesday debated on whether the fate for the prisoners of The War on Terror, held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, deserved hearings before an independent judge to prove their fate.

The Motion Picture Assn. of America has filed suit against two Web sites that it claims are allowing Internet users to view pirated films, many of which are still in theaters.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy returned from his summer break on Monday to a sluggish economy, a court decision to scrap a tax break he promised and a scandal over a pedophile who says a prison doctor gave him Viagra.

Former media mogul Conrad Black is guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice but innocent of racketeering, a U.S. jury found on Friday.

Stiffer penalties, including enhanced fines and imprisonment, as a deterrent against violations by corporates and provisions ensuring greater transparency and accountability will form part of the comprehensive Companies Law Amendment Bill that is proposed to be tabled in Parliament in the winter session.