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A powerful blast carried out by a suicide bomber at the site of where the embattled chief justice of the Supreme Court was scheduled to speak Tuesday evening killed at least 14 people and injured at least 40, according to the police, dragging the Pakistani capital into a new round of disorder less than a

Cybercrime, like every digital industry, is outsourcing. Though the U.S. still produces more malware, spam and viruses than any country in the world, illicit IT jobs are increasingly scattered across an anarchic and international Internet, where labor is cheap, legitimate IT jobs are scarce and scammers are insulated from the laws that protect their victims

Not since exploding Ford Pintos in the 1970s has there been as incendiary a catalyst for recalls as China’s recent spate of consumer product scares. Since March a cluster of incidents involving potentially deadly, defective, or contaminated products imported from China – pet food, toys, tires, toothpaste, cough syrup, shrimp – has awakened both that

A high-profile judge was defiant last night after he was criticised severely by appeal judges for refusing to stand aside in a case in which he had “undoubted animosity” towards one of the parties. Mr Justice Peter Smith, who hit the headlines when he tried The Da Vinci Code case and inserted his own code

Like many other defendants in the recent wave of corporate crime trials, Canadian press baron Conrad Black was convicted Friday despite assembling a dream team of legal talent costing millions of dollars. The boom in white-collar prosecutions in the past decade has produced a bonanza for attorneys sparing no expense to mount defenses on behalf

A U.S. jury on Friday found Conrad Black guilty of three counts of criminal fraud and one charge of obstruction of justice in a grim Friday the 13th verdict that could send the former media baron to jail for up to 35 years. Black’s three co-defendants were also convicted of three counts of mail fraud

Australia’s consumer watchdog has launched a world-first court action accusing internet giant Google of misleading web users by misidentifying sponsored links on its search engine. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it wanted Google to stop publishing search results that fail to distinguish between paid advertisements and “organic” search results. The ACCC said

Coca-Cola has filed a criminal complaint in Argentina against two unnamed executives working on behalf of Danone, the French food and beverage company, accusing them of orchestrating a two-year internet smear campaign against its Dasani drinking water. It is believed to be one of the first cases in which a leading international company has taken