A US court has ordered pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to pay three women almost $73m in damages.

PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Dana Rosemary Scallon has suggested it is better to have ties with the US rather than Europe after denying claims she concealed her US citizenship.

Liverpool FC’s American owners were accused of “outrageous” behaviour today after they thwarted British High Court orders allowing the club to be sold.

The top US court, in a blow to gun control advocates, ruled today that Americans have the right to own a gun.

Legal history was made in an Irish court today when an Irish businessman was arraigned by a US Federal judge via international satellite video link in relation to a corporate accounting scandal which wiped more than $1bn from the share price of communications giant Enterasys.

More than £500m (€762m) was wiped from the value of Tate & Lyle after the sugar and sweetener group delivered a surprise profits warning today.

A man who lived next door to parents accused of abusing some of their adopted children by making them sleep in cages claims the father had planned to leave his job because he made enough money by adopting.

A US court has issued a restraining order against celebrity debutante Paris Hilton, ordering her to stay away from an event producer who claimed she threatened and harassed him.

The US Supreme Court today agreed to consider whether a church in New Mexico can continue using hallucinogenic tea in its religious services.

The world’s largest drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to pay €353.18m to resolve personal-injury claims against a subsidiary that sold products containing asbestos in the 1970s.

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.

Radovan Karadzic, the world’s most wanted war crimes suspect, keeps evading arrest with police help, a Bosnian Serb leader said today.

Microsoft accused the EU today of going too far in seeking a record fine of about €498m against it for alleged antitrust abuses, saying it was being penalised for behaviour permitted in the United States.

An appeal court in San Francisco ruled today that prisoners held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should have access to lawyers and the American court system.

The producers of the new Austin Powers film have denied it will be called Licensed To Shag.