Nestle has pledged to redouble efforts to stop child labour after research showed the practice was rife on its supplying Cote d’Ivoire cocoa farms.
The alleged rogue trades have killed any remaining ambitions UBS might have to compete with the titans of Wall Street.
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/ 24 September 2011
UBS’s chief executive Oswald Gruebel resigned on Saturday, taking the blame after its banking business lost $2.3-billion in alleged rogue trading.
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/ 21 October 2009
A Swiss court rejected on Tuesday a bid by film director Roman Polanski for release on bail as the risk was too high he would flee.
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/ 29 September 2009
Lawyers for director Roman Polanski lodged an appeal with a Swiss court on Tuesday against his arrest on a United States extradition warrant.
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/ 28 September 2009
Director Roman Polanski, arrested in Zurich over a US charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, will fight extradition, his lawyer said.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor charged Sudan’s president on Monday with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor looks poised to seek the arrest of Sudan’s president on Monday for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
The International Criminal Court took custody on Thursday of its highest-profile suspect to date — Congolese former rebel warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba.
”I am not a monster. I’m also not a God. In the best case I’m an angel,” muses a doctor in a Dutch play about euthanasia, before delivering a lethal injection to an old friend, a cancer patient. The Good Death is playing to packed houses across The Netherlands, which became the first country to legalise euthanasia in 2002.