Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and another former aide to the executed Iraqi president stood side by side on the scaffold today, in official film of their hanging shown to journalists by the Iraqi Government. Moments later, as the trapdoors swung open, they dropped and the rope severed the hooded head of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam’s younger […]
I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, will go on trial on Tuesday, nearly three years after a C.I.A. operative’s name appeared in a newspaper column, setting off a major investigation of who leaked the name and why. But neither Mr. Libby nor anyone else has been charged
The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation’s top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and that the firms’ corporate clients should consider ending their business ties. The comments by Charles D.
Federal investigators want to question two former Apple Inc. lawyers about a backdated stock- option grant to Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple shares fell 1.2 percent after the newspaper said investigators seek to interview Wendy Howell and former general counsel Nancy Heinen. Howell,
Police in Spain have arrested Argentine ex-President Isabel Peron over the 1976 disappearance of a leftist activist. An Argentine judge on Thursday issued a warrant for her arrest, in connection with a right-wing paramilitary group active during her time in office. Mrs Peron has since been released from custody. Argentina now has 40 days in
A former Hewlett-Packard Co. private investigator pleaded guilty to posing as a reporter and company directors to get telephone records for an internal probe of boardroom leaks. Bryan Wagner, 29, of Littleton, Colorado, admitted identification theft and conspiracy today before U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose, California. Wagner’s lawyer said his client didn’t
David Beckham will leave Real Madrid at the end of the season and join side Los Angeles Galaxy on a £128million ($250 million) five-year deal – which works out at a mere half-a-million pounds a week. David Beckham, the embodiment of Real Madrid’s ‘Galacticos’ ethos, will be leaving the famous Bernabeu stadium. The former England
Maybe Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs should use his new iPhone to call a good trademark lawyer. That’s the advice of several attorneys and IT analysts regarding Apple’s decision to call its new combination mobile phone, iPod and Internet communications device an “iPhone” — even though that name is a registered trademark held by Cisco
Efforts by lawyers and the Press Complaints Commission to protect Prince William’s friend, Kate Middleton, from constant harassment by photographers appeared to be paying off today after a frenzy of activity yesterday. Miss Middleton found herself facing massed ranks of photographers when she left her flat in Chelsea yesterday morning – her 25th birthday –
An attorney fighting to retain former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso’s $100 million compensation package told a higher court Wednesday that a fully informed “blue chip” board of directors approved the compensation and he should not be forced to give it back. Grasso’s attorney, Gerson A. Zweifach, is seeking to have a lower
