Russia has blocked access to LinkedIn after the social network became the first major foreign site to be found in violation of a law demanding that the data of Russian users is stored on Russian territory.
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, the New York-based hedge fund that is buying 14 ski resort properties across the country, including Loon Mountain and Mt. Sunapee, earlier this year agreed to pay $412 million in criminal and civil penalties to settle charges related to offering bribes in several African nations, with some money allegedly going to…
Rio Tinto, long the bluest of blue-chip companies, finds itself mired in a corruption scandal over how it was able to secure a fabulously large iron ore project in the jungles of the Simandou Mountains, in the historically corruption-challenged west African nation of Guinea.
An Italian glamour model has been accused by Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister, of trying to extort €1 million (£860,000) from him in exchange for remaining silent over the “bunga bunga” parties which led to his political downfall.
A police officer in Arizona is now on administrative leave after a video surfaced online showing him cold-cocking a woman in the face.
A Brooklyn actress took her own life during a modeling trip to Peru, officials said Thursday.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay about $264 million to settle corruption charges that accused the investment bank of seeking to influence Chinese government officials by giving jobs and internships to their friends and relatives, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday.
A prominent Bollywood actress was attacked and tear-gassed in Paris — mere blocks away from where Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint last month.
Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar spoke out harshly against Reform Jews and the LGBT community.
Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who fled Israel after allegations of sexual misconduct against female followers came to light in 2012, will serve 18 months in prison for sexual abuse.