A paternity suit filed against Wesley Snipes by a woman who claimed the actor had sex with her in a Chicago crackhouse was dismissed today after a DNA test determined that another man was the father of the child in question.

A court in America has upheld the prison sentences for three pacifist nuns who used their own blood to deface a missile silo in northern Colorado in 2002.

A US court could order chemical firm Union Carbide to clean up the site of a gas leak that killed thousands of people in central India nearly 20 years ago, now that the Indian government says it has no objection to the move.

The US Court of Appeals has reopened a patent infringement lawsuit by Xerox against Palm over handwriting recognition on handheld computers.