President Donald Trump has lashed out in a series of tweets amid a firestorm over the firing of FBI director James Comey, defending the shifting narrative and timeline his administration has offered for the decision.

Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey during the bureau's investigation into whether the tycoon's campaign had links to Russia's meddling in the presidential election.

Drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3bn (€2.4bn) in fines after admitting to the largest healthcare fraud in US history.

The medical licence of a doctor who implanted 12 embryos into "Octomom" Nadya Suleman should be revoked because he put the lives of patients in jeopardy and remains a threat to others, a prosecutor said today.

The manager of an Afghan television network who refused to censor images of women dancing in short skirts has been arrested.

Thai prosecutors filed new corruption charges against ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra today for alleged abuse of authority to benefit his family business.

More than 400 estate agents have been charged since March, including dozens over the past two days, in a crackdown on incidents of US mortgage fraud that stem from America’s housing crisis, the Deputy Attorney General said today.

An Afghan man who faced execution for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison in Kabul, the deputy attorney general said today.

More than a dozen Mexican policemen have been arrested following the killings of at least 11 people, whose bodies were found buried in the garden of a drug gang’s safe house.

President George Bush called for stiff new penalties for corporate criminals and a crackdown on boardroom scandals today.

Former Big Five accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP was convicted of obstructing justice by destroying tonnes of documents related to its former client, Enron Corp.

A judge in San Diego has fined RJ Reynolds Co more than €20 million for violating the terms of a US tobacco agreement by running magazine adverts aimed at teenagers.

A US federal grand jury today indicted the Arthur Andersen accounting firm in the Enron scandal, the first criminal charges in the biggest bankruptcy in the US.