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BBC GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to pay $3bn (£1.9bn) in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history. The drug giant is to plead guilty to promoting two drugs for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a diabetes drug to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The...

BBC Breaking News The US Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate at the heart of President Obama's healthcare law as constitutional Live text BBC News - LIVE: US Supreme Court healthcare ruling

BBC A court in Germany has ruled that circumcising young boys for religious reasons amounts to bodily harm. In a decision that has caused outrage among Jewish and Muslim groups, the court said that a child's right to physical integrity trumps religious and parental rights. The case...

BBC Is there a law that FB has broken to purposely change a users email address without permission? BBC Facebook is facing a backlash from users after replacing email addresses listed in members' contacts with those provided by its @facebook.com system. The company said it had...

BBC Mandatory sentences of life in prison without parole for juvenile offenders violate the US constitution, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court on Monday threw out the life sentences of two men convicted as boys of murders in Arkansas and Alabama. In both cases, state law mandated...

BBC The US Supreme Court has upheld a key part of a tough Arizona immigration law that would give new powers to police to check the immigration status of people stopped and arrested. However, three of four challenges brought by the Obama administration were upheld by the court. The US...

BBC The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi has been declared the winner of Egypt's presidential election run-off. He won 51.73% of the vote, beating former PM Ahmed Shafiq, the Higher Presidential Election Commission said. The head of the panel of judges, Farouq Sultan, said it had...

BBC Victims of forced sterilisation in the US state of North Carolina will not get compensation, after a payout plan failed in the state Senate. A plan to give $50,000 (£31,800) to each victim passed the House but was rejected in the Senate. Republicans said the state did not have the funds...

BBC A US father who found his five-year-old daughter being raped, then beat the alleged attacker to death will not be charged, prosecutors have said. The 23-year-old man told police he found the girl being assaulted on Saturday 9 June by Jesus Mora Flores in a rural part of southern Texas...

BBC Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is seeking political asylum at Ecuador's London embassy, the country's foreign minister has said. "Ecuador is studying and analysing the request," Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters in Quito. On 14 June, Britain's Supreme Court dismissed...

BBC The US Supreme Court has ordered the government to repay Native American tribes the costs of providing public services, in a ruling that could be worth millions of dollars. Under federal laws which allow the tribes to manage their own affairs, the government must reimburse them for...

BBC British Columbia's Supreme Court has struck down a portion of Canada's criminal code that bans physician-assisted suicide. Justice Lynn Smith ruled that preventing doctors from helping critically-ill patients to commit suicide was unconstitutional. She suspended her ruling for one...

BBC Illegal immigrants who came to the US as children may be eligible for work permits and will not be deported, the Department of Homeland Security says. Under a new plan, those aged between 16 and 30 who have lived in the US continuously for five years would be eligible for amnesty from...

Pew Research Center Global approval of President Barack Obama’s policies has declined significantly since he first took office, while overall confidence in him and attitudes toward the U.S. have slipped modestly as a consequence. Europeans and Japanese remain largely confident in Obama...

BBC French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says he will call on the UN Security Council to make mediator Kofi Annan's Syria peace plan mandatory. France would propose that Mr Annan's six-point plan be enforced under the UN's Chapter Seven provision, he said. Mr Fabius said the...

:eek: "I'm so versatile, I can be used for just about anything," the woman said in a sugary voice, changing her shirt. "I can say what you want, dress the way you want and be just about anything you want me to be!" Meet the new holographic customer service rep that will be tested in three...

BBC A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden has been jailed for at least 30 years, officials say. Shakil Afridi was charged with treason for running a fake vaccination programme to gather information. The US secretary of state Hillary Clinton had called for his...

BBC A Canadian man who forgot his passport has said that he managed to cross the border into the US using a copy of the document he had scanned on to his iPad. Martin Reisch, from Montreal, presented the US border office with his digital device after realising near the border that he did...

BBC Eight US soldiers have been charged over the death of infantryman Danny Chen in Afghanistan, international security forces have said. Charges include dereliction of duty, assault and involuntary manslaughter; five are accused of negligent homicide. Private Chen, from New York, was...

So the trash from Japan has started arriving on the west coast 1 year early according to the models ....... ya'think they put the decimal in the right place? :rolleyes: LOL :D:p