
London: Status update: You're sued. Legal authorities said on Tuesday that a High Court judge in England has approved the use of Facebook to serve legal claims. Lawyers in a commercial dispute were last week granted permission to serve a suit against a defendant via the popular social networking site. Justice Nigel Teare permitted the unconventional method of service during a pretrial hearing into a case which pits two investment...

07:23 AM, Feb 22, 2012

Davos: Three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained on Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world's poor. Separately, demonstrators from the Occupy movement marched to the edge of the gathering. After a complicated journey to reach the heavily guarded Swiss resort town of Davos, the Ukrainians arrived at the entrance to the complex where...

09:00 AM, Jan 29, 2012

Davos: An igloo protest camp sprouting up amid $500-a-night hotels and security cordons at the Swiss resort of Davos seems to serve a warning to the world's rich and powerful gathering in Davos: Beware, or you might be sleeping in the snow next year, too. In many countries, prospects for prosperity are increasingly fragile. Trust in presidents and CEOs, and the systems they represent, is drying up. Uncertainty lurks for...

10:33 AM, Jan 24, 2012

Washington: Police in several US cities confronted Occupy protests aimed and shutting down port facilities as part of a nationwide day of protest in the aftermath of efforts to clear demonstrators against corporate greed from public parks. Several arrests were made, while ports reported only minor hindrances on Monday in protest against efforts by cities across the country - including New York, Boston and Oakland - to clear the Occupy...

11:39 AM, Dec 13, 2011

Portland (US): Dozens of anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested in Texas, where they clashed with police over food tables, and in Oregon, where officers dragged them out of a park in an affluent neighborhood. In New York and many other East Coast cities, it was a snowstorm that was making it difficult for demonstrators to stay camped out in public places. The 'Occupy' movement, which began six weeks ago in...

07:49 AM, Oct 31, 2011