AFP - British-based Lloyds TSB Bank agreed Friday to pay a 350 million dollar penalty to settle a probe that it illegally handled financial transfers for Iran and Sudan in violation of US sanctions.
Obama wants to invoke God during inauguration oath
President-elect Barack Obama will invoke God when he takes the oath of office January 20, despite a lawsuit filed by atheist and non-religious groups, according to an attorney for Chief Justice John Roberts, who will administer the oath.
The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for torture overseas in the first U.S. case of its kind.
China has arrested 60 over tainted milk scandal: police
BEIJING (AFP) - - China said on Friday it had arrested a total of 60 people in the tainted milk scandal that led to the deaths of at least six children and sickened nearly 300,000 others. Police had arrested them for 'producing or selling toxic and
China widens 'vulgar' online crackdown, targets MSN
BEIJING China has widened an Internet crackdown on vulgar content to target 14 new sites, including Microsoft's MSN, and chided fellow American giant Google for not doing enough to clean up. China's ruling Communist Party is wary of threats to its
No breakthrough as Japan, China discuss gas field
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan and China made no visible progress in talks Friday on their renewed row over gas fields in the East China Sea. Japan's Vice-Foreign Minster Mitoji Yabunaka and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Guangya, held the meeting behind closed
UPDATE 1-Disney to submit Shanghai theme park plan to China
(Adds background on Disney plans in China) NEW YORK, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co (DIS.N Disney said it will submit plans for the park, which would be the second Disney resort in China, together with the Shanghai government, but that no deal has
China Organic Agriculture Completes Frankfurt Stock Exchange
China Organic Agriculture, Inc. CNOA, a diversified agricultural trading company capitalizing on China's consumer revolution, today announced the listing of its shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with the trading symbol 4CA. The Frankfurt Stock
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