THE US Supreme Court appears ready to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Walmart on behalf of up to 1.6 million women, and that could make it harder for other workers nationwide to bring class-action claims against large employers.

A federal judge ordered the US military to stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops immediately, bringing the 17-year “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy closer than it has ever been to being abolished.

Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer has vowed to continue fighting for rights to money left in the will of her late husband J Howard Marshall.

Napster has failed to overturn a landmark court ruling which resulted in an injunction blocking website customers from trading copyrighted music.