(MENAFN - AFP) Brazil became the third and largest Latin American country to give a de facto green light to same-sex marriage.
In a bold stride for the majority Roman Catholic nation, the National Council of Justice (NCJ), a panel which oversees Brazil's legal system and is headed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, said government offices that issue marriage licenses ...
(MENAFN - AFP) Global high street brands including Benetton, Carrefour and Marks & Spencer committed to abide by an agreement to improve working conditions in Bangladeshi factories after a plant there collapsed killing more than 1,100 people.
Tuesday's announcements came a day after clothing giants Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden said they were signing up to ...
(MENAFN - AFP) The first auctions of Brazilian oil concessions in five years raised a higher-than-expected $1.4 billion, a spokesman for the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) said.
The ANP spokesman said 142 out of 289 blocks had been sold Tuesday, with the remainder unsold. The auction, due to be wrapped up on Wednesday, had raised 2.8 billion reals (1.4 billion dollars), ...
(MENAFN - AFP) Minnesota became the twelfth US state to legalize same-sex marriage, after Governor Mark Dayton signed a marriage equality law passed by the legislature last week.
In an outdoor public signing ceremony surrounded by throngs of people, Dayton signed the measure then posted a photo of the event to his Twitter account with the short tweet: "It's history."
(MENAFN - AFP) The European Commission has carried out surprise inspections at several major oil companies over possible price fixing in breach of EU anti-trust rules.
The Commission did not name any of the companies involved in Tuesday's raids but British energy giant BP, Shell and Norway's Statoil said that their offices had been visited.
(MENAFN - AFP) Boeing said Tuesday it has resumed deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft, suspended since January after the airplane was grounded globally because of overheated battery problems.
"Boeing has resumed 787 deliveries with an airplane delivered today in Everett to ANA," the US aerospace giant company said in a statement, referring to Japan's All Nippon Airways ...
(MENAFN - AFP) The rocketing stock price of electric sports car maker Tesla made it more valuable than Fiat Tuesday -- even though the Italian auto giant produces 200 times more cars than the American upstart.
After a more than 50 percent gain in the past week, Tesla's market value topped $10 billion, compared to the Turin giant's $8 billion, as investors reacted to the ...
(MENAFN - AFP) Google co-founder and chief Larry Page disclosed Tuesday that his vocal cords are partially paralyzed but that it will not stop him from running the Internet colossus.
The medical details shared by Page in a post on the Google+ social network explain the reason behind his mysterious absences from major company events in the last year and his tendency to ...
(MENAFN - AFP) European governments Tuesday firmed up plans to share bank records across borders for tax collection in a purge on money-laundering and offshore havens -- but failed to prise open key savers' data in Austria and Luxembourg.
In a mixed outcome for talks that had begun with high expectations, the European Commission won a mandate to negotiate new transparency ...
(MENAFN - AFP) The global economic crisis worsened income inequality in the world's leading economies substantially and there is a growing risk that the most vulnerable will be hit harder still, the OECD warned Wednesday.
The global economic crisis has "has squeezed incomes from work and capital in most countries," a report based on the Organisation of Economic Cooperation ...
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15 May 2013
