More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York’s Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement reached.
March 10, 2010
Global Tobacco Giant to Sue Norway Over Display Ban
Global tobacco giant Philip Morris said Tuesday it planned to take the Norwegian state to court in an attempt to overturn a law in the Scandinavian country banning the display of cigarettes in stores.
The question of whether the parents of a child who suffered serious health problems after being vaccinated can sue a pharmaceutical company for compensation will be considered in the US Supreme Court.
February 25, 2010
New Law on Clinical Trials on the Anvil
In a bid to regulate the booming clinical trial market, the Union Health Ministry of India has revealed that it will be reviewing the Bill for Research
A 43-year-old Australian woman has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for gassing to death two of her children and attempting to kill another, back in 2002.
Scott Roeder, the man who murdered the 67-year-old ‘abortion doctor’ George Tiller in May last year, has been convicted. He faces a minimum sentence of
January 30, 2010
Three Years In Jail For Boy Rapist
A 13-year-old boy has been sentenced to three years in prison in the UK for raping a 20-year-old girl - mercy shown to him because of his age. Judge
Yet another sickening incest story - of a father who abused his daughter for nearly three two decades. This one from Australia. He fathered four children with her.
The verdict on two brothers charged with brutally torturing two other young boys is being reviewed in the UK, following criticism from various quarters.
It is yet another case a dysfunctional family, and the brutalized children going on to subject two other boys to some appalling cruelty. A British judge