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Martha Stewart strolled outdoors with her dog and fed her horses Friday morning, hours after returning from prison to the multi-million-dollar estate where she will remain under the watch of federal authorities while trying to revive her homemaking empire. Before her five-month stay in prison, Stewart lamented that she would miss her beloved pets –

Even in a nation obsessed with weight loss, there’s never been anything quite like fen-phen. It was a set of magic pills from the wizards of Big Pharma: a prescription cocktail that promised to suppress appetite and promote weight loss, easily and safely. Fen-phen’s pledge: no pain, and no gain. Even in a nation obsessed

Dozens of men and women accused of the rape and abuse of children have gone on trial in one of the biggest court cases in France’s legal history. The trial, which involves 66 defendants and is expected to last four months, is taking place in a specially built hall in the town of Angers, western

The assassination of an investigative judge working on the forthcoming trial of Saddam Hussein has raised fears that insurgents will target legal proceedings against Iraq’s former regime. Judge Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud and his son, Aryan, were murdered outside their home in Baghdad’s northern Adamiyah district on Tuesday evening, the same day that five members of

Delivering a magisterial closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney William Johnson tied the various strands of the case against Bernard J. Ebbers tightly enough to likely secure a conviction, and offered a roadmap for making cases against CEOs in other instances, as well. Thursday, it will be up to the defense to argue that the road

Greed, power and worry drove Bernard Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom Inc., to mastermind a fraud that cost investors billions of dollars, a U.S. prosecutor said in closing arguments on Wednesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Johnson told jurors that on Ebber’s watch, “WorldCom had truly become WorldCon. “Bernie Ebbers was the leader of

A judge and a lawyer with the special tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein and former members of his government were shot and killed Tuesday by gunmen outside their home here, Iraqi officials said. It was the first time a member of the tribunal is known to have been assassinated, though a number of criminal

Michael Jackson’s lawyer said on Tuesday the pop star would tell the jury in his child molestation case how his teenage accuser had run wild at his Neverland Valley ranch, drinking wine and looking at porn, while his mother hatched a scheme to extort money. Concluding his opening statements, attorney Tom Mesereau said his client

Microsoft is in the middle of a global review of its law firms as it attempts to control spiralling legal costs caused mainly by its endless antitrust and patent litigation. It is understood that the world’s largest software house has frozen hourly rates until the selection process is completed. Those firms chosen so far have

Bernard Ebbers, the forrmer chief executive of WorldCom, told a jury in New York on Monday that he lacked any knowledge of accounting so left all such decisions to his chief financial officer. “To this day, I don’t know technology, I don’t know finance and accounting,” said Mr Ebbers, who is accused of orchestrating an